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reuse-before-generate
📇 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Checks whether a project idea already exists before your agent scaffolds it. Searches GitHub, npm and Python repos, drops archiv...
Checked Oct 27, 2026Evidence completeness: evidenceREADME refreshed Oct 25, 2026Repo activity Sep 23, 2026
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📇 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Checks whether a project idea already exists before your agent scaffolds it. Searches GitHub, npm and Python repos, drops archived/inactive results, and returns at most 3 maintained alternatives with a concrete "extend this instead" suggestion for each. The calling agent does the relevance judgement itself, so no extra API key is needed. npx -y reuse-before-generate
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Developers using AI assistance for code generation, review and refactoring, particularly developers integrating through an API — source available on GitHub.
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