diff --git a/.github/workflows/plugin-live-check.yml b/.github/workflows/plugin-live-check.yml
index 2022e5363..5a40c003d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/plugin-live-check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/plugin-live-check.yml
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ jobs:
             plugins/**/*.ts
           files_ignore: |
             plugins/**/*\[*\]*.ts
+            plugins/**/*.broken.ts
             plugins/multisrc/**
 
       - name: Determine Targets
@@ -63,6 +64,9 @@ jobs:
       # Multisrc-generated files (plugins/**/*[...].ts) are excluded above.
       # They're produced from plugins/multisrc/*/template.ts + sources.json,
       # not hand-authored, so testing the generator is out of scope here.
+      # Parked broken sources (plugins/**/*.broken.ts) are excluded too: the
+      # `.broken.ts` suffix deliberately removes them from production
+      # compilation, so live-checking them can only fail by design.
       - name: Run Live Check
         id: live-check
         if: steps.targets.outputs.files != ''
diff --git a/docs/testing.md b/docs/testing.md
index 37136b95c..ea5ce6206 100644
--- a/docs/testing.md
+++ b/docs/testing.md
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ Each step reports one of three outcomes:
 
 ## CI
 
-Any PR that touches a file under `plugins/**/*.ts` (excluding multisrc-generated files) runs this
+Any PR that touches a file under `plugins/**/*.ts` (excluding multisrc-generated files and
+parked `*.broken.ts` sources) runs this
 same check automatically against just the changed plugins, and posts the results as a job summary
 on the workflow run (visible from the PR's checks list, under the Actions tab) — not as a PR
 comment. The check only fails the PR on a genuine `FAIL` — `INCONCLUSIVE` results (a site being
diff --git a/plugins/arabic/Markazriwayat.ts b/plugins/arabic/Markazriwayat.broken.ts
similarity index 89%
rename from plugins/arabic/Markazriwayat.ts
rename to plugins/arabic/Markazriwayat.broken.ts
index 4a0fe4e22..5648b586f 100644
--- a/plugins/arabic/Markazriwayat.ts
+++ b/plugins/arabic/Markazriwayat.broken.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+/**
+ * BROKEN - مركز الروايات (markazriwayat.com) serves no novel content on any route:
+ * a Cloudflare challenge answers direct requests, and the origin behind it only
+ * returns a "Coming Soon" placeholder with a theme 404 on every deeper path.
+ * There is nothing left to parse, so this source is excluded from production
+ * compilation by the `.broken.ts` suffix.
+ *
+ * Successor source: Galaxy Novels (galaxynovels.com) - announced by the same
+ * operators on their Coming Soon page as their affiliated site - is already
+ * available as the `galaxynovels` plugin.
+ */
 import { load as parseHTML } from 'cheerio';
 import { fetchApi } from '@libs/fetch';
 import { Plugin } from '@/types/plugin';
@@ -12,7 +23,6 @@ class Markazriwayat implements Plugin.PluginBase {
   icon = 'src/ar/markazriwayat/icon.png';
   site = 'https://markazriwayat.com/';
 
-
   filters = {
     order: {
       type: FilterTypes.Picker,
@@ -82,15 +92,16 @@ class Markazriwayat implements Plugin.PluginBase {
     try {
       if (page > 1) return [];
       const apiUrl = `${this.site}wp-json/theam/v1/novel-search?term=${encodeURIComponent(searchTerm)}&per_page=20`;
-      const res = await fetchApi(apiUrl)
+      const res = await fetchApi(apiUrl);
       if (!res.ok) return [];
       const data = await res.json();
       return (data.items || []).map(
         (item: { title: string; link: string; cover?: string }) => ({
-        name: item.title,
-        path: item.link.replace(this.site, ''),
-        cover: item.cover || defaultCover,
-      }));
+          name: item.title,
+          path: item.link.replace(this.site, ''),
+          cover: item.cover || defaultCover,
+        }),
+      );
     } catch {
       // Fallback: use library search HTML
       try {
diff --git a/scripts/live-check-plugin.js b/scripts/live-check-plugin.js
index 8f0977935..163524ba3 100644
--- a/scripts/live-check-plugin.js
+++ b/scripts/live-check-plugin.js
@@ -297,6 +297,17 @@ async function probeSiteReachability(site) {
 
 async function checkPlugin(pluginPath) {
   const result = { pluginPath, steps: [], loadError: null };
+  // Parked broken sources are deliberately excluded from production
+  // compilation (see tsconfig.production.json) — live-checking them can
+  // only fail by design, so short-circuit to INCONCLUSIVE (never a FAIL).
+  if (pluginPath.endsWith('.broken.ts')) {
+    const step = makeStep('parkedBrokenSource');
+    step.status = 'INCONCLUSIVE';
+    step.detail =
+      'Parked broken source (*.broken.ts): excluded from production compilation; live check skipped.';
+    result.steps = [step];
+    return result;
+  }
   let plugin;
   try {
     plugin = await loadPluginInstance(pluginPath);