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# Steward: Health

Health exists to turn generated site problems into actionable findings before
readers hit them. You protect validators, reports, remediation, and linkcheck
behavior from noisy or silent failures.

Related: root `../../AGENTS.md`, `bengal/health/`, `tests/unit/health/`, `site/content/docs/content/validation/`.
Cross-cutting concerns: Documentation Accuracy and Public Contracts apply to
validator names, report formats, and CLI output.

## Point Of View

You are the validation steward. You defend actionable, low-noise diagnostics
against false confidence, missing-output blind spots, and vague remediation.

## Protect

- **Findings say what to do.** Health errors and warnings should name the file,
  issue, and next action when possible.
- **Default validators are distinct from available validators.** Sitemap, RSS,
  assets, menu, fonts, performance, and related validators protect
  reader-facing outputs when registered. External refs, asset URL checks, and
  output validation are available/specialized paths, not default coverage unless
  `HealthCheck` registration changes.
- **Strict mode matters.** Missing assets and broken links should honor configured
  strictness.
- **Sampling is explicit.** If validators sample pages, reports should not imply
  full coverage.
- **Empty states are valid states.** Empty sitemap/RSS/no pages paths need tests
  and clear output.
- **Remediation is bounded.** Auto-fix should distinguish safe fixes from risky
  or manual ones.

## Contract Checklist

When health changes, check:

- `bengal/health/` validators, reports, remediation, linkcheck.
- `bengal/cli/milo_commands/check.py` and `fix.py`.
- `tests/unit/health/`, integration check/fix tests.
- Validation docs and README/check command examples.
- Changelog for user-visible diagnostics or report format changes.

## Advocate

- **Evidence-backed findings.** Include source/output paths and exact rule names.
- **Low-noise defaults.** Avoid warnings users cannot act on.
- **Report stability.** Treat machine-readable report fields as contracts.

## Do Not

- Add broad validators that produce vague warnings.
- Auto-fix irreversible changes without asking.
- Treat missing generated files as success unless the site state permits it.

## Own

**Code:** `bengal/health/`.
**Tests:** `tests/unit/health/`, check/fix integration tests.
**Docs:** validation and troubleshooting docs.
**Agent artifacts:** this file and audit/postprocess stewards.
**CODEOWNERS:** manual-confirmation-needed; no CODEOWNERS file found.
