Outgoing Link Audit

Links to other people's sites rot: companies rebrand, move domains, or shut down. The offline test gate (tests/links.spec.ts) can only catch domains you already know are dead. This skill is the active sweep that discovers the rot.

Read-only with respect to the site: it diagnoses and reports. You apply fixes (and add any newly-dead domain to the test) only after the user confirms.

When to run

Monthly, or before a notable release / before launch. It hits third-party servers, so it is deliberately not part of CI (npm test must stay hermetic and offline).

Prerequisite: does the site even have external links?

If the build has no outgoing anchors there is nothing to audit — say so and stop: