diff --git a/lib/windows/AutoOS.ClaudeAutostart.psm1 b/lib/windows/AutoOS.ClaudeAutostart.psm1
index 98c4a9f..2e20b02 100644
--- a/lib/windows/AutoOS.ClaudeAutostart.psm1
+++ b/lib/windows/AutoOS.ClaudeAutostart.psm1
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ function Get-AutoOSClaudeDefaults {
                 foreach ($p in $block.PSObject.Properties) { $table[$p.Name] = $p.Value }
                 if ($table.Count -gt 0) { return $table }
             }
-        } catch { }
+        } catch { $_ | Out-Null }
     }
     @{
         enabled = $true; snapshot_interval_mins = 5; liveness_window_mins = 240
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ function Get-AutoOSClaudeState {
                     sessions        = @($doc.sessions)
                 }
             }
-        } catch { }
+        } catch { $_ | Out-Null }
     }
     [pscustomobject]@{ version = $script:StateVersion; captured_at = 0; captured_at_iso = $null; sessions = @() }
 }
diff --git a/lib/windows/AutoOS.Detect.psm1 b/lib/windows/AutoOS.Detect.psm1
index b1934ec..871dda5 100644
--- a/lib/windows/AutoOS.Detect.psm1
+++ b/lib/windows/AutoOS.Detect.psm1
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ function Get-AutoOSWingetPackageProcess {
         $process = [Diagnostics.Process]::Start($psi)
         # Close stdin so a prompt that slipped past --disable-interactivity reads
         # EOF and gives up, instead of sitting there until the timeout.
-        try { $process.StandardInput.Close() } catch { }
+        try { $process.StandardInput.Close() } catch { $_ | Out-Null }
         $process
     } catch { $null }
 }
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ function Get-AutoOSWingetPackageResult {
             $Process.Kill()
         }
     } catch { $packages = @() }
-    finally { try { $Process.Dispose() } catch { } }
+    finally { try { $Process.Dispose() } catch { $_ | Out-Null } }
     $packages
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/windows/AutoOS.Serve.psm1 b/lib/windows/AutoOS.Serve.psm1
index f732bf6..1aa1345 100644
--- a/lib/windows/AutoOS.Serve.psm1
+++ b/lib/windows/AutoOS.Serve.psm1
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ function Get-AutoOSExampleBlock {
     try {
         $block = (Get-Content -LiteralPath $path -Raw -Encoding UTF8 | ConvertFrom-Json).$Name
         if ($block) { return $block }
-    } catch { }
+    } catch { $_ | Out-Null }
     @{}
 }
 
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ function Get-AutoOSDetectedAnswers {
         try {
             $value = (& git config --global $pair.Setting 2>$null | Select-Object -First 1)
             if ($value) { $answers[$pair.Key] = [string]$value }
-        } catch { }
+        } catch { $_ | Out-Null }
     }
     $answers
 }
diff --git a/tests/check-links.py b/tests/check-links.py
index 786151c..a8287e9 100644
--- a/tests/check-links.py
+++ b/tests/check-links.py
@@ -20,12 +20,22 @@
 
 
 def markdown_files(root: str) -> list[str]:
-    patterns = ["README.md", "AGENTS.md", "CLAUDE.md", "docs/*.md", "**/README.md"]
-    found: set[str] = set()
-    for pat in patterns:
-        for path in glob.glob(os.path.join(root, pat), recursive=True):
-            if os.path.isfile(path) and ".git" not in path.split(os.sep):
-                found.add(os.path.relpath(path, root))
+    found: list[str] = []
+    for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(root):
+        if ".git" in dirnames:
+            dirnames.remove(".git")
+
+        rel_dir = os.path.relpath(dirpath, root)
+        is_root = rel_dir == "."
+
+        for f in filenames:
+            if f == "README.md":
+                found.append(f if is_root else os.path.join(rel_dir, f))
+            elif rel_dir == "docs" and f.endswith(".md"):
+                found.append(os.path.join(rel_dir, f))
+            elif is_root and f in ("AGENTS.md", "CLAUDE.md"):
+                found.append(f)
+
     return sorted(found)