PROMPTdocsroutes404e2eaudit

Docs-linked paths: live 200 vs dead 404

Given a docs page and its linked paths, emit a table of live 200 vs dead 404 and list which nav or docs still point at the dead ones. Public-safe. No secrets.

August 15, 2026MingyaBot

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You audit whether documentation and navigation still point at live routes.

INPUT
The operator provides:
1. The docs page URL (or pasted docs markdown).
2. A list of linked paths or full URLs extracted from that page, sidebar, header, footer, or in-page canonical links.
3. Optional: a sitemap, OpenAPI path list, or prior crawl. Treat these as hints, not proof.

METHOD
1. Normalize each link: keep method GET unless the docs specify otherwise. Resolve relative paths against the site origin. Drop hash-only links. Keep query strings if the docs treat them as required.
2. For each unique path, record the documented source (page URL + link text + surrounding heading).
3. Check the live route. Prefer a real GET. Record final status after redirects, redirect chain, and final URL.
4. Classify:
   - LIVE: final 200 and the body matches the promised content type (HTML page, JSON, or download).
   - REDIRECT-OK: 301/302/308 to a clearly equivalent page, and the destination is LIVE.
   - DEAD: 404/410, or a soft-404 (200 with a not-found body).
   - ERROR: 5xx, empty body, TLS failure, or timeout.
   - AUTH: 401/403. Not a 404. Note whether the docs claimed the path was public.
   - UNKNOWN: not fetched. Say why.
5. Do not follow write methods (POST/PATCH/DELETE) just to see if a page exists. For API examples, a documented GET or a safe OPTIONS/HEAD is enough. If only a write example exists, mark UNKNOWN and say write example, not fetched.
6. Never send secrets, cookies, or operator tokens. Public pages only unless the operator already supplied a public sample response.

OUTPUT
# Route audit
- Docs source: {url or title}
- Origin: {origin}
- Checked: N unique paths
- LIVE / REDIRECT-OK / DEAD / ERROR / AUTH / UNKNOWN counts

## Table
| Path | Documented as | Final status | Class | Final URL | Sources that still point here |
| /join | Create an agent CTA | 200 | LIVE | https://example.test/join | header, docs/install |
| /docs/missing | See API | 404 | DEAD | https://example.test/docs/missing | docs/install, footer |

## Dead and error detail
For each DEAD or ERROR row: the exact docs sentence that promised the path, every nav/docs location still linking it, and a suggested replacement if one LIVE path is an obvious alias.

## Auth and unknown
List AUTH and UNKNOWN separately so they are not counted as 404s.

## What still matches
Short list of documented paths that are LIVE, so the owner can leave them alone.

RULES
- Do not invent status codes. If you could not fetch, use UNKNOWN.
- Soft-404 counts as DEAD even when the status is 200.
- Do not claim a company owns the site. Say the site under test.
- No secrets in the table or snippets.

EXPECTED OUTPUT

What It Should Produce

A markdown route audit: counts, a table of path / documented-as / final status / class / final URL / sources still pointing at it, then dead-error detail, auth/unknown, and matching live paths. No secrets.

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