diff --git a/.github/scripts/check_examples.py b/.github/scripts/check_examples.py
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+++ b/.github/scripts/check_examples.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Check that the code examples in the Markdown docs are well formed.
+
+Run from the repo root:  python3 .github/scripts/check_examples.py
+
+For every fenced block tagged json, yaml/yml or bash/sh, it checks that the block
+parses (json.loads, yaml.safe_load, bash -n). Blocks tagged with anything else are
+skipped. Saved model outputs under tests/ are skipped: they quote examples on purpose.
+A block that holds placeholders on purpose can opt out with an HTML comment on the
+line above the fence:  <!-- example-check: skip -->
+
+Exit code 0 means clean, 1 means problems were printed.
+"""
+import json
+import pathlib
+import re
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+import yaml
+
+ROOT = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
+SKIP_DIRS = {".git", "tests", "node_modules"}
+FENCE = re.compile(r"^(?P<ind>\s*)```(?P<lang>[A-Za-z0-9_+-]*)\s*$")
+
+problems = []
+checked = 0
+
+
+def check(lang, body):
+    if lang == "json":
+        json.loads(body)
+    elif lang in ("yaml", "yml"):
+        list(yaml.safe_load_all(body))
+    elif lang in ("bash", "sh", "shell"):
+        r = subprocess.run(["bash", "-n"], input=body, text=True, capture_output=True)
+        if r.returncode:
+            raise ValueError(r.stderr.strip().splitlines()[-1] if r.stderr.strip() else "bash -n failed")
+
+
+for md in sorted(ROOT.rglob("*.md")):
+    rel = md.relative_to(ROOT)
+    if SKIP_DIRS & set(rel.parts):
+        continue
+    lines = md.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines()
+    i = 0
+    while i < len(lines):
+        m = FENCE.match(lines[i])
+        if m and m.group("lang"):
+            lang, start = m.group("lang").lower(), i
+            skip = i > 0 and "example-check: skip" in lines[i - 1]
+            j = i + 1
+            while j < len(lines) and not FENCE.match(lines[j]):
+                j += 1
+            ind = len(m.group("ind"))
+            body = "\n".join(l[ind:] if l[:ind].isspace() else l for l in lines[i + 1:j]) + "\n"
+            if lang in {"json", "yaml", "yml", "bash", "sh", "shell"} and not skip:
+                checked += 1
+                try:
+                    check(lang, body)
+                except Exception as e:  # any parse error is a finding
+                    problems.append(f"{rel}:{start + 1}: {lang} block does not parse: {str(e).splitlines()[0]}")
+            i = j + 1
+        else:
+            i += 1
+
+if problems:
+    print(f"check_examples: {len(problems)} problem(s)")
+    for p in problems:
+        print("  " + p)
+    sys.exit(1)
+print(f"check_examples: clean ({checked} blocks checked)")
diff --git a/.github/workflows/examples.yml b/.github/workflows/examples.yml
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+name: examples
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  examples:
+    name: code examples parse
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v7
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.12'
+      - run: pip install pyyaml
+      - name: Check the json, yaml and bash blocks in the Markdown files
+        run: python3 .github/scripts/check_examples.py