User-agent: *

# Keep internal tooling out of crawler traffic
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /editor/
Disallow: /filters/
Disallow: /tinymce/
Disallow: /grappelli/
Disallow: /autocomplete/
Disallow: /maps/

# Plate viewer — stand-in imagery until the real plate corpus lands (pages
# also carry meta noindex; this stops the crawl cost, not just the indexing)
Disallow: /plates/

# Reduce crawl pressure on high-churn parameterized URLs
Disallow: /*?page=
Disallow: /*&page=
Disallow: /*?q=
Disallow: /*&q=
Disallow: /*?search=
Disallow: /*&search=
Disallow: /*?sort=
Disallow: /*&sort=
Disallow: /*?filter=
Disallow: /*&filter=

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /plates/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /editor/
Disallow: /filters/
Disallow: /tinymce/
Disallow: /grappelli/
Disallow: /autocomplete/
Disallow: /maps/
Disallow: /*?page=
Disallow: /*&page=
Disallow: /*?q=
Disallow: /*&q=
Disallow: /*?search=
Disallow: /*&search=
Disallow: /*?sort=
Disallow: /*&sort=
Disallow: /*?filter=
Disallow: /*&filter=

# Canonical discovery
Sitemap: https://historyatlas.com/sitemap.xml