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Confirm scheduled broken-link-detection automation (#81)
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Expand Up @@ -44,13 +44,21 @@ A Mintlify community report (October 2025) describes a case where a page serving

A per-PR link check only catches breaks introduced by that PR. A separate, Mintlify-hosted automation periodically re-scans the *entire* site, catching drift from any source - including direct admin-bypass pushes that skip PR review entirely.

* **Type:** `broken-link-detection` (`mint automations create --type broken-link-detection`)
**Active** since August 11, 2026, first run August 15, 2026 (`nextRunAt` confirmed via `mint automations list`).

* **Type:** `broken-link-detection`
* **Cadence:** `0 6 1,15 * *` - the 1st and 15th of each month, run at 06:00. Standard cron has no native "every 2 weeks" field; this is the closest non-drifting approximation of a biweekly cadence (actual gaps land at 13-16 days depending on the month).
* **Auto-merge:** off. When the automation finds and fixes a broken link, it opens a PR like any other change - it goes through the same manual review as everything else in this repo, it does not merge itself.
* **What it does:** for each broken internal link, it checks whether the target page was renamed or moved and updates the link, or - if the target was removed entirely - edits the surrounding copy to remove or replace the reference.
* **Cost:** billed in Mintlify credits per run (rough public estimate: ~285 credits/run) - a real operating cost, not a free background job.

See [issue #81][4] for the setup record (creation command, confirmed `mint automations list` output).
Setup record (issue [#81][4]):

```sh
mint automations create --name "Broken link detection" --type broken-link-detection --cron "0 6 1,15 * *" --format json
```

`mint automations list` confirms it registered with `status: active`, no `automerge` field (off by default), and the cron/type above.

## Fallback: manual broken-link check

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