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Sphinx docs monitoring

Draft. This outline will be expanded with verified, platform-specific detail.

How Sphinx sites typically break

• Toctree membership decides reachability; documents outside any toctree become orphans (Sphinx warns). TODO(verify): warning text
• Section ids are generated from section titles; renamed sections break #fragment links unless explicit labels are used.
• Read the Docs serves language and version prefixes such as /en/latest/ and /en/1.4/. TODO(verify)

What Sphinx catches, and what it misses

• sphinx-build -b linkcheck checks external links on demand. TODO(verify): scope and anchor handling
• Misses live-site drift, redirects, sitemap drift and cross-version canonicals.

Setting up redirects on Sphinx / Read the Docs

• Read the Docs redirect rules in the project dashboard; sphinx-reredirects for self-hosted builds. TODO(verify)

How PathIntact monitors a Sphinx site

• Detection via _static/doctools.js and theme class names TODO(verify); static reading; /{lang}/{version}/ versioning pattern.

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