Before passing articles to the Blue Team, all cited external URLs are probed for HTTP liveness, and any broken links are unwrapped into plain text while protecting the primary target link.
flowchart LR
A[Raw Generated Markdown] --> B[Scan All Markdown Links]
B --> C{Probe URL<br/>safe_get Range 0-0}
C -- 2xx/3xx --> D[Keep Intact]
C -- 4xx/5xx/Dead --> E{Is Target URL?}
E -- Yes --> F[Flag Broken<br/>Keep Link]
E -- No --> G[Unwrap Link<br/>Keep Anchor Text]
D --> H[Cleaned Draft to Blue Team]
F --> H
G --> HReferenced by