# Broken Link Verification for Static Sites and Documentation

> Uses htmltest to crawl generated documentation or static site output, detect broken internal and external links, and return a link-focused validation report before deploy. This is a narrow docs QA skill for agents validating already-built HTML, not a generic site generator or crawler listing.

- Skill: `agentskillexchange/broken-link-verification-for-static-sites-and-documentation` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add agentskillexchange/broken-link-verification-for-static-sites-and-documentation`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/agentskillexchange/broken-link-verification-for-static-sites-and-documentation/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Web & Frontend
- Author: agentskillexchange (https://skillmd.com/u/agentskillexchange)
- Updated: 2026-09-08
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/agentskillexchange/broken-link-verification-for-static-sites-and-documentation

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# Broken Link Verification for Static Sites and Documentation

Uses htmltest to crawl generated documentation or static site output, detect broken internal and external links, and return a link-focused validation report before deploy. This is a narrow docs QA skill for agents validating already-built HTML, not a generic site generator or crawler listing.

## Prerequisites

Go or prebuilt htmltest binary and generated HTML output

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- docker run -v $(pwd):/test --rm wjdp/htmltest
- docker run -v $(pwd):/test --rm wjdp/htmltest -l 3 -s

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- ### :whale: Docker

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- You'll be prompted for your password. After simply do htmltest to run.
- By default this will install htmltest into ./bin of your current directory, to run do bin/htmltest. Rather suitable for CI environments.
- If you need more arguments to the test run it like this:

- Source: https://github.com/wjdp/htmltest
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wjdp/htmltest/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://github.com/wjdp/htmltest

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/broken-link-verification-static-sites-documentation/)