diff --git a/test/ci-validation/README.md b/test/ci-validation/README.md
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+# CI Workflow Validation
+
+This directory contains intentional failures for testing CI workflows.
+Delete this directory and its PR once validation is complete.
diff --git a/test/ci-validation/bad-link.md b/test/ci-validation/bad-link.md
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+# CI Validation: Broken Link
+
+This file intentionally contains a [broken link](https://github.com/NVIDIA/accelerated-computing-hub/blob/main/THIS_FILE_DOES_NOT_EXIST_12345.md) to trigger the link checker.
diff --git a/test/ci-validation/bad-notebook.ipynb b/test/ci-validation/bad-notebook.ipynb
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+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 1,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "name": "stdout",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": ["hello\n"]
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": ["print('hello')"]
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 3",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python3"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 5
+}
diff --git a/test/ci-validation/bad.yaml b/test/ci-validation/bad.yaml
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+key: value
+  bad_indent: this line has wrong indentation
+duplicate_key: first
+duplicate_key: second
+trailing_space: value   
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