From a75282409d56aa59e8ba73c7f24b0a48a9cd244d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Cunneen <mike@appworkshop.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:52:30 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] docs: :memo: link to docs/REFERENCE_STYLE.md

---
 README.md               | 6 +-----
 docs/REFERENCE_STYLE.md | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 docs/REFERENCE_STYLE.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cce9fad..aa96e80 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -977,11 +977,7 @@ An extensive list of static Shields.io badges, sorted by category.
 
 ## Reference-Style Badges
 
-The table below is automatically created. It contains the above badges, in a reference-style format.
-
-<!-- ### BEGIN GENERATED CONTENT -->
-<!-- any content between the above and below lines will be overwritten by the github action script -->
-<!-- ### END GENERATED CONTENT -->
+See [docs/REFERENCE_STYLE.md](./docs/REFERENCE_STYLE.md) for the above badges in markdown reference-style format.
 
 ## CLI
 
diff --git a/docs/REFERENCE_STYLE.md b/docs/REFERENCE_STYLE.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0636e98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/REFERENCE_STYLE.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Reference-Style Badges
+
+The table below is automatically created. It contains the badges [from README.md][readme], in a reference-style format.
+
+<!-- ### BEGIN GENERATED CONTENT -->
+<!-- any content between the above and below lines will be overwritten by the github action script -->
+<!-- ### END GENERATED CONTENT -->
+
+[readme]: ../README.md