From 56bb961278629617cf126ac912fd161b454d888b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rivassec <rivassec@rivassec.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:17:09 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ci(link-rot): exclude content/_external from the weekly scan

Vendored external READMEs are not site content (ARTICLE_EXCLUDES skips
them at build) and their repo-relative links (/LICENSE) resolve as
false 404s against --base-url. First-week allowlist tuning, as
predicted in #58.
---
 .github/workflows/link-rot.yml | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/link-rot.yml b/.github/workflows/link-rot.yml
index 4d065ed5..20f91c95 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/link-rot.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/link-rot.yml
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ jobs:
             --max-retries 2
             --max-concurrency 8
             --no-progress
+            --exclude-path content/_external
             'content/**/*.md' 'README.md'
           output: lychee-report.md
           fail: false