claude-api skill: 4 dead URLs in shared/live-sources.md registry (agents instructed to WebFetch them get 404s)

[wallidsaydi-creator]

Summary

The claude-api skill's live-documentation registry (skills/claude-api/shared/live-sources.md) — the file every language README points agents to with "WebFetch … rather than guess" — contains 4 dead entries, and two related skill files carry 3 more dead references. All 5 distinct URLs hard-404 (verified stable across 3 passes × 2 user agents, redirects followed). Every canonical replacement below is already listed in platform.claude.com/llms.txt, so the registry just needs re-syncing with your own index.

The impact is the exact failure mode this registry exists to prevent: an agent following the skill's instructions to fetch current docs gets a 404, then falls back to guessing from stale training data.

Dead entries in shared/live-sources.md

Line	Listed URL	Status	Canonical (verified 200, in your llms.txt)
L21	https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/pricing.md	404	https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing.md
L59	https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/computer-use.md	404	https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/computer-use-tool.md
L65	https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/skills.md	404	https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/overview.md
L113	https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/sdks/cli.md	308 → 404 (redirect target cli-sdks-libraries/sdks/cli.md is itself dead)	https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/cli-sdks-libraries/cli/quickstart.md

Note L59 vs the neighboring entry at L60-L64 (bash-tool.md, text-editor-tool.md, memory-tool.md, tool-search-tool.md, programmatic-tool-calling.md all 200): the Computer Use page was renamed to computer-use-tool in the docs IA, and only this one row kept the old slug.

Dead references in related files

skills/claude-api/shared/tool-use-concepts.md L342

• Dead: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/computer-use/overview → 404
• Canonical: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/computer-use-tool (200)
• (The same file's other 5 platform refs all resolve — only the renamed Computer Use slug drifted.)

skills/academy-guide/SKILL.md L90 and L115

• Dead: https://academy.claude.com/resources → 404 (the skill's designated fallback when the catalog can't be fetched)
• Live equivalent: https://academy.claude.com/all (200, titled "All resources · Claude Academy"); /courses, /tutorials, /use-cases named in the same skill are all 200
• This one has extra bite: the reference is inside the instruction for what to do when a fetch already failed — so the fallback path fails too.

Reproduction

for u in \
  docs/en/pricing.md \
  docs/en/agents-and-tools/skills.md \
  docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/computer-use.md \
  docs/en/agents-and-tools/computer-use/overview; do
  curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code} $u\n" "https://platform.claude.com/$u"
done
# → 404 x4 (stable across 3 passes, Chrome and curl UAs)
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" -L "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/sdks/cli.md"
# → 404 after 308
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" -L "https://academy.claude.com/resources"
# → 404

Suggested fix

One-line URL replacements per the table above (all canonicals confirmed present in platform.claude.com/llms.txt). The api/sdks/cli.md entry should point at cli-sdks-libraries/cli/quickstart.md — the llms.txt "CLI, SDKs, and libraries" section carries the full set if the row wants richer coverage.

Happy to open a PR with exactly these substitutions.

Context

I maintain a standing audit of agent-facing documentation surfaces (merged fix in cloudflare-docs #32985, acknowledged report → shipped fix in upstash/context7 #3060). I also sell a $5 FreshContext Pack — a repo-specific freshness check for AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md-style context files (sample) — which is how I found these. No obligation; the report and PR offer stand on their own.

[wallidsaydi-creator]

PR opened with exactly these substitutions: #1700 (+7/-7 across the 3 files; supersedes #703 with credit to @y-yagi for the first two rows).