While auditing public skill repositories with SkillVerify — a description-vs-body verifier for Claude SKILL.md files — I found 5 dead reference links in marketing-skill/*-cro and marketing-skill/seo-audit/SKILL.md. Each link points to a references/<name>.md file that does not exist on disk. All are HEAD-checked 404 against current main.
Bugs
1. marketing-skill/onboarding-cro/SKILL.md → references/experiments.md (404)
curl -sI https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/main/marketing-skill/onboarding-cro/references/experiments.md | head -1
# → HTTP/2 404
2. marketing-skill/paywall-upgrade-cro/SKILL.md → references/experiments.md (404)
Same shape as #1.
3. marketing-skill/page-cro/SKILL.md → references/experiments.md (404)
Same shape as #1.
4. marketing-skill/programmatic-seo/SKILL.md → references/playbooks.md (404)
5. marketing-skill/seo-audit/SKILL.md → TWO dead links
references/ai-writing-detection.md — 404
references/aeo-geo-patterns.md — 404
Likely root cause
All five marketing-skill/*-cro skills appear to have been generated from the same template that includes a references/experiments.md link in the prose. Whoever copied the template forgot to populate that file in 4 of 5 skills (onboarding-cro, paywall-upgrade-cro, page-cro, plus programmatic-seo for playbooks.md). The seo-audit skill has two reference-template completions left unfilled.
Suggested fix
For each link, either:
- Add the referenced file to
references/ with the content the prose promises, or
- Remove the link.
Smallest fix is ~6 line changes (one per dead link). I'm happy to open a PR if the fix path is approved.
While auditing public skill repositories with SkillVerify — a description-vs-body verifier for Claude SKILL.md files — I found 5 dead reference links in
marketing-skill/*-croandmarketing-skill/seo-audit/SKILL.md. Each link points to areferences/<name>.mdfile that does not exist on disk. All are HEAD-checked 404 against currentmain.Bugs
1.
marketing-skill/onboarding-cro/SKILL.md→references/experiments.md(404)2.
marketing-skill/paywall-upgrade-cro/SKILL.md→references/experiments.md(404)Same shape as #1.
3.
marketing-skill/page-cro/SKILL.md→references/experiments.md(404)Same shape as #1.
4.
marketing-skill/programmatic-seo/SKILL.md→references/playbooks.md(404)5.
marketing-skill/seo-audit/SKILL.md→ TWO dead linksreferences/ai-writing-detection.md— 404references/aeo-geo-patterns.md— 404Likely root cause
All five
marketing-skill/*-croskills appear to have been generated from the same template that includes areferences/experiments.mdlink in the prose. Whoever copied the template forgot to populate that file in 4 of 5 skills (onboarding-cro,paywall-upgrade-cro,page-cro, plusprogrammatic-seoforplaybooks.md). Theseo-auditskill has two reference-template completions left unfilled.Suggested fix
For each link, either:
references/with the content the prose promises, orSmallest fix is ~6 line changes (one per dead link). I'm happy to open a PR if the fix path is approved.