diff --git a/aio/tools/transforms/angular-base-package/index.js b/aio/tools/transforms/angular-base-package/index.js
index 4b50e5f81c..6cd6b4b7fd 100644
--- a/aio/tools/transforms/angular-base-package/index.js
+++ b/aio/tools/transforms/angular-base-package/index.js
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ module.exports = new Package('angular-base', [
   .factory(require('./readers/json'))
 
   .config(function(checkAnchorLinksProcessor) {
-    // TODO: re-enable
+    // This is disabled here to prevent false negatives for the `docs-watch` task.
+    // It is re-enabled in the main `angular.io-package`
     checkAnchorLinksProcessor.$enabled = false;
   })
 
diff --git a/aio/tools/transforms/angular.io-package/index.js b/aio/tools/transforms/angular.io-package/index.js
index 94d67eb73f..3c9c34693c 100644
--- a/aio/tools/transforms/angular.io-package/index.js
+++ b/aio/tools/transforms/angular.io-package/index.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ const Package = require('dgeni').Package;
 const gitPackage = require('dgeni-packages/git');
 const apiPackage = require('../angular-api-package');
 const contentPackage = require('../angular-content-package');
+const { extname } = require('canonical-path');
 
 module.exports = new Package('angular.io', [gitPackage, apiPackage, contentPackage])
 
@@ -20,5 +21,15 @@ module.exports = new Package('angular.io', [gitPackage, apiPackage, contentPacka
   .config(function(renderDocsProcessor, versionInfo) {
     // Add the version data to the renderer, for use in things like github links
     renderDocsProcessor.extraData.versionInfo = versionInfo;
+  })
 
+  .config(function(checkAnchorLinksProcessor) {
+    checkAnchorLinksProcessor.$enabled = true;
+    // since we encode the HTML to JSON we need to ensure that this processor runs before that encoding happens.
+    checkAnchorLinksProcessor.$runBefore = ['convertToJsonProcessor'];
+    checkAnchorLinksProcessor.$runAfter = ['fixInternalDocumentLinks'];
+    // We only want to check docs that are going to be output as JSON docs.
+    checkAnchorLinksProcessor.checkDoc = (doc) => doc.path && doc.outputPath && extname(doc.outputPath) === '.json';
+    // Since we have a `base[href="/"]` arrangement all links are relative to that and not relative to the source document's path
+    checkAnchorLinksProcessor.base = '/';
   });