---
title: assembler navigation validate-link-reference
description: Validate all published links in links.json do not collide with navigation path_prefixes and all urls are unique. Read more about navigation. 
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-builder/pull/2386/cli/assembler/assembler-navigation-validate-link-reference
---

# assembler navigation validate-link-reference
Validate all published links in links.json do not collide with navigation path_prefixes and all urls are unique.
Read more about [navigation](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-builder/pull/2386/configure/site/navigation).

## Usage

```
docs-builder assembler navigation validate-link-reference [arguments...] [-h|--help] [--version]
```


## Arguments

<definitions>
  <definition term="[0] <string>">
    Path to `links.json` defaults to '.artifacts/docs/html/links.json'
  </definition>
</definitions>