Session Overview

Sam selected option A from the prior broken external link repair session: update seo-broken-link-scanner so the successful 2026-06-14 repair pattern becomes repeatable. This session was scoped to the skill update, not another live WordPress content repair.

What Was Accomplished

Updated /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Projects/Skills/seo-broken-link-scanner/SKILL.md to version 1.1 with updated: 2026-06-14. The skill now includes the guarded CSV-to-repair workflow for external broken links, including dry-run first, explicit action mapping, backups, proposed content files, WordPress REST status and readback checks, exact Cloudflare purge, and bot-block classification.

Added /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Projects/Skills/seo-broken-link-scanner/scripts/repair_external_links_from_csv.py. The helper script requires a crawler CSV and an explicit actions JSON file with replace, unwrap, and leave_live_ok sections. It dry-runs by default, refuses slugless homepage-style URLs, writes backups and proposed files, applies only with --apply, checks REST readback and status drift, validates public pages, and can purge exact changed URLs from Cloudflare when the Cloudflare env vars are loaded.

Updated /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Projects/Skills/SKILL-INDEX.md so the scanner entry reports version 1.1, describes the guarded CSV repair workflow, and shows last reviewed 2026-06-14. The index file already had unrelated drift before this session, so only the scanner entry was intentionally changed.

Verification Evidence

Ran python3 -m py_compile Skills/seo-broken-link-scanner/scripts/repair_external_links_from_csv.py, which passed. Ran the helper with --help and confirmed the CLI renders. Parsed the skill frontmatter and confirmed seo-broken-link-scanner 1.1 2026-06-14. Ran an em-dash scan over the updated skill and helper and found none after cleanup. Confirmed the skill folder contains only SKILL.md and the helper script after removing generated __pycache__.

Current State

The skill update is complete locally. Git status shows Skills/SKILL-INDEX.md modified and Skills/seo-broken-link-scanner/ untracked. The untracked skill folder was already present as a workspace condition before this follow-up, and this session preserved that state while adding the helper script inside it. No live WordPress content changes were made in this follow-up.

QA Recommendations Pending Approval

Availability precheck failed: AskUserQuestion was not exposed in this runtime, so this entry uses markdown fallback and is tagged QA: Open.

Should this helper be mirrored into any scheduled-task or cloud runner surface?

• A. Mirror the v1.1 helper into the next scheduled/cloud broken-link workflow update (recommended): this keeps the local skill, scheduled routine, and future cloud lane aligned.
• B. Keep the helper only in the canonical skill folder for now: lowest immediate risk, but scheduled tasks may still use older logic.
• C. Add a read-only scheduled runner first, then add repair apply mode later: safest if the next step should avoid live writes entirely.
• D. Other: choose a different sync or rollout pattern.

Pickup Prompt

Continue from the completed seo-broken-link-scanner v1.1 update. Review /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Projects/Skills/seo-broken-link-scanner/SKILL.md and /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Projects/Skills/seo-broken-link-scanner/scripts/repair_external_links_from_csv.py. The helper compiles and the skill index entry was updated, but the workspace is already dirty and the skill folder is untracked, so do not stage broadly. Next useful step, if approved, is to mirror this helper into the scheduled or cloud broken-link workflow surface without changing live WordPress content.