Teaching Claude to be a Link Detective with linkinator-mcp
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You know that feeling when you publish a website, and three months later someone tells you half the links are broken? Or worse - when you're in the middle of a deployment and you know there are busted links somewhere, but you have no idea where?
When working on API reference documentation for Google's APIs, our team ran into this a little too frequently. Enough times that I built linkinator - a tool that crawls websites and checks for broken links. It's worked well enough for me for years, but here's the thing: running a link checker from the command line is kind of a chore.
