What does this automation do?
A new ticket is checked against the board by name. Most are new and the run stops; the ones that already exist get flagged for a person to merge.
What can you do with it?
- Catch the second copy of a ticket on the day it is filed
- Stop two people starting the same work
- Leave the merge decision with a human instead of deleting anything
The Steps
This automation runs in 6 steps:
- When ClickUp — New Task
- Then ClickUp — Find Task By Name
- Then Filter — continue only when a ticket with a matching name already exists
- Then Taskade AI — Ask Agent ("Duplicate Judge")
- Then ClickUp — Create Task Comment
- Then Taskade — Add Task
What makes this different from a Zapier-style flow?
The "Duplicate Judge" step is not a one-off model call. It is a Taskade AI agent that knows your naming conventions and which lists overlap, remembers the pairs it has already called duplicates, so every run builds on the last one instead of starting from an empty prompt.
A stateless "ask the model" step forgets everything the moment it returns. An agent keeps its knowledge and its memory between runs, carries its own tools, and can be handed work by other automations.
Who is this automation for?
Built for teams with several people filing into the same list. A new ticket is checked against the board by name. Most are new and the run stops; the ones that already exist get flagged for a person to merge.
How do you set it up?
- Open the "Automations" tab in your workspace.
- Click ➕ Add automation, then start from scratch.
- Add the trigger "New Task" from ClickUp.
- Add the action "Find Task By Name" from ClickUp.
- Add a Filter step: Filter — continue only when a ticket with a matching name already exists.
- Add the action "Ask Agent" from Taskade AI. Point it at an agent called "Duplicate Judge".
- Add the action "Create Task Comment" from ClickUp.
- Add the action "Add Task" from Taskade.
- Enable the toggle in the top-right corner to activate the automation.
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