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Exercises the check-links workflow from #1858 against a PR that breaks links. Close, do not merge.

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✅ The broken links an earlier revision of this PR introduced are fixed

marcleblanc2 added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 11, 2026
Linear [FE-499: Fix doc site
issues](https://linear.app/sourcegraph/issue/FE-499/fix-doc-site-issues)

## Problem

- Our docs site has hundreds of broken links
- `dev/check-links.mjs` finds broken internal links and anchors, but it
isn't run automatically, so PRs can easily break links (renaming a
heading, moving or deleting a page) without anyone noticing

## Solution

- Updated the script to also work as a PR check, with additional
functions beyond what's run when used as a CI test in Vercel builds
- PR check to run the script and report if the PR breaks links
- It runs the script (with `--check-anchors`) on both the PR head and
its merge base, and diffs the findings
- This catches both directions:

- **Outbound**: a changed page links to a page or `#heading` that
doesn't exist
- **Inbound**: the PR renames a heading or removes/moves a page that
other, unchanged pages link to — those show up as findings in files the
PR didn't touch

- Pre-existing broken links are ignored by the PR check
- The comment is created / updated in place, and once the PR is fixed,
the PR check passes and the comment is updated to say so
- A PR that never broke anything gets no comment

## Verification

PR check comment in test PR:
#1895 (comment)

### Broken links found

<img width="1826" height="1628" alt="Screenshot 2026-09-09 at 20 05 31"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/930cde1f-50b1-46c0-9421-bd75a257c17d"
/>

### Broken links fixed

<img width="910" height="168" alt="Screenshot 2026-09-09 at 20 06 31"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1cc26276-5cba-4595-85fc-8e10955aabab"
/>

## Absolute self-links and external links

- Absolute links to this site (`https://sourcegraph.com/docs/…`,
`http://…`, `//…`, `www.`, the legacy `https://docs.sourcegraph.com/…`)
fail the check even when the target exists: they leave the Vercel
preview and local dev, and hide moved pages behind redirects. The
finding names the relative link, following `src/data/redirects.ts` when
the page moved. Version-pinned links (`/@5.1/…`) stay external
- External links on lines this PR added are requested (HEAD, then GET on
an error status, following redirects); only 404 and 410 are findings, so
rate limits, bot blocks, 5xx and network errors never fail a PR.
Placeholder hosts (`*.example.com`, `localhost`, templated `<host>`) are
skipped
- Findings with a fix become one suggested-change review comment per
line, which the author can apply from the PR. Suggestions already on the
PR are not posted again
- #1899 clears the 67 existing absolute self-links so this check starts
from zero

Test PR: #1900 (report comment + one review suggestion; the `#sampling`
anchor deliberately does not exist, so that link gets no suggestion; a
second run posted nothing new)

## Related

- Draft PR #1562 proposes a daily Slack digest with a separate
reimplementation of this script
  - Instead, this PR improves on the existing script, and gates PRs
- PR #1860 enabled external link
checkers to find broken links again

## Amp threads

- [Broken link PR
check](https://ampcode.com/threads/T-01a0753f-0f4f-7478-b36c-87466e7c0261)
- [Asset case
mismatch](https://ampcode.com/threads/T-01a07597-43c0-751b-8c49-6e5809e714d2)
- [Docs - Fix broken heading
links](https://ampcode.com/threads/T-01a07623-9d65-7356-96b8-2bebb31ffa5a)
- [Self-links and external
links](https://ampcode.com/threads/T-01a08a01-44c1-775b-84d0-d67ff9501905)

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Co-authored-by: Amp <amp@ampcode.com>
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