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The brief's rule is to commit reference data beside the finding so the port can be built without a disc. Nothing had ever checked that the docs' cited artifacts actually exist. doc_link_check.py walks every markdown file under docs/, resolves each relative link, and reports targets that are missing -- and separately targets that resolve to a ZERO-BYTE file, which looks fine in any listing. links resolving 1038 -> 1049 missing targets 16 -> 5 empty targets 0 -> 0 +11 resolving and -11 missing against 11 edits: the counts pair, which is the confirmation the pass did what it claimed and touched nothing else. Two of the sixteen were the evidence for the UI layout decode itself. structures/ui-rat-layout.md is what the port is built on, and its two figures -- backing "the tutorial PAUSE menu rebuilds pixel-accurately from its sprites" and "the same method reproduces the main menu" -- were written as captures/ui-layout/... from a file in structures/, one directory too shallow. The headline evidence for the decode could not be opened from its own document. Eleven links had the wrong relative depth with the target present. Each was rewritten only where exactly one candidate path resolved, so nothing was guessed; the first pass left three alone because equivalent spellings (captures/../captures/x) failed to collapse, and a second pass normalised them. Five remain genuinely absent and are left rather than invented: two point at MEMORY.md outside the repo, one at a header in the separate xenia-canary-native tree, and two name documents that were never written (weapon-datasheet-runtime.md, canary-build-verified-env-confound.md). None is port-relevant. A missing document is a different problem from a bad path and is not something a link fix should paper over.
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✅ Do the docs' cited artifacts exist? — 11 broken links repaired
Status: ✅ checked mechanically and fixed, with the count verified both ways.
The brief's rule is "commit the reference data beside the finding, so the port can be built without a disc in the loop". An answer whose evidence is not reachable cannot be used. Nothing had ever checked that.
tools/re-capture/doc_link_check.py
walks every markdown file under docs/, resolves each relative link, and reports
targets that do not exist — and, separately, targets that exist but are empty,
which is the sneakier failure since a zero-byte file looks fine in any listing.
| before | after | |
|---|---|---|
| links resolving | 1 038 | 1 049 |
| missing targets | 16 | 5 |
| empty targets | 0 | 0 |
+11 resolving, −11 missing — the two numbers pair exactly, which is the check that the repair did what it claimed and nothing else.
🔴 Two of them were the evidence for the UI decode itself
structures/ui-rat-layout.md is the layout decode the port is built on. Its two
figures — the ones backing "the tutorial PAUSE menu rebuilds pixel-accurately
from its sprites" and "the same method reproduces the main menu" — were
written as captures/ui-layout/… from a file in structures/, one directory
too shallow. The headline evidence for the decode was unreachable from its own
document.
What was wrong, and what still is
Eleven links had the wrong relative depth while their targets existed — a
missing or surplus ../, or a missing structures/. Those are repaired; each
was rewritten only when exactly one candidate path resolved, so nothing was
guessed.
❔ Five remain genuinely absent and are left alone rather than invented:
| doc | target |
|---|---|
autopilot-knowledge-sources.md, entities-live-roster.md |
../../MEMORY.md — outside the repo |
challenge-mission-gate.md |
a header in the separate xenia-canary-native tree |
stage-drift-is-navigation-not-save.md |
structures/weapon-datasheet-runtime.md — never written |
mission-freeze-resume-spin.md |
canary-build-verified-env-confound.md — never written |
None is port-relevant: they are mission, entity and emulator-side documents. Two name documents that do not exist, which is a different problem from a bad path and is not something to paper over with a link fix.