| name | feed-validate |
| description | Check a single RSS/Atom feed URL for liveness, staleness, redirects, and label accuracy. Use this atom when feed-curator needs to verify individual feed health or when any monitoring system needs a per-URL health check. Do NOT use for feed discovery — that is atom-feed-discover. Do NOT use for content extraction from feeds. |
feed-validate
Validates a single feed URL and returns its health status (live, dead, stale, redirect). Used by feed-curator to check each feed individually and by any system maintaining a feed catalog.
Input
{
"feed_url": "https://www.fldoe.org/feed.xml",
"label": {"category": "standards", "authority": "primary"},
"last_check_date": "2026-06-15",
"check_types": ["liveness", "staleness", "redirect"]
}
Output
{
"tool": "feed-validate",
"status": "live",
"http_code": 200,
"reason": "Feed updated 2 hours ago; last 5 entries recent",
"redirect_target": null,
"last_entry_date": "2026-06-27T10:30:00Z",
"confidence": "high",
"label_issues": [],
"human_review_required": true
}
Do NOT use this atom for
- Feed discovery from a seed page (use atom-feed-discover)
- Content extraction or summarization from feeds
- Bulk feed validation (call this atom once per feed URL)
Pipeline note
Follows references/method.md at the Validation step (feed health check). Output conforms to protocol-layer/metadata-schema.md. human_review_required: true — feed health is advisory; dead feeds may be temporarily unreachable.
