diff --git a/aio/tools/transforms/authors-package/watchr.js b/aio/tools/transforms/authors-package/watchr.js
index 9d28225102..70982f43dc 100644
--- a/aio/tools/transforms/authors-package/watchr.js
+++ b/aio/tools/transforms/authors-package/watchr.js
@@ -29,7 +29,15 @@ if (process.argv.indexOf('--watch-only') === -1) {
   console.log('Skip the full doc-gen by running: `yarn docs-watch --watch-only`');
   console.log('================================================================');
   const {Dgeni} = require('dgeni');
-  var dgeni = new Dgeni([require('../angular.io-package')]);
+  const dgeni = new Dgeni([require('../angular.io-package')]);
+
+  // Turn off all the potential failures for this doc-gen one-off run.
+  // This enables authors to run `docs-watch` while the docs are still in an unstable state.
+  const injector = dgeni.configureInjector();
+  injector.get('linkInlineTagDef').failOnBadLink = false;
+  injector.get('checkAnchorLinksProcessor').$enabled = false;
+  injector.get('renderExamples').ignoreBrokenExamples = true;
+
   p = dgeni.generate();
 }