link-rot-detection
CommunityDetect broken links with scheduled audits.
Content & Communication#markdown#http-status#broken-links#content-audit#soft-404#link-rot#external-urls
Authorjacob-balslev
Version1.0.0
Installs0
System Documentation
What problem does it solve?
This Skill prevents slow link degradation in markdown content by finding external links that have become unreachable, dead, or incorrectly redirected before users encounter them.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Link extraction across markdown content: Scans
.mdand.mdxto extract both inline and reference-style links, then classifies internal versus external targets to avoid false positives. - HTTP health checks with redirect and transient handling: Interprets status codes to record redirects, retry transient failures, and flag persistent dead links like 404/410.
- Soft-404 detection and structured reporting: Detects “unknown page” interstitials even when the status is 200, and produces a JSON report plus a markdown summary suitable for audit artifacts.
Quick Start
Use the link-rot-detection skill to run a nightly scan of your markdown content and generate a link-health report for broken external links.
Dependency Matrix
Required Modules
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Please help me install this Skill: Name: link-rot-detection Download link: https://github.com/jacob-balslev/skill-graph/archive/main.zip#link-rot-detection Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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