Safe crawling

How to crawl this site without falling into deliberate traps.

A default crawl of this site is always safe. The default sitemap, the navigation, and the safe manifest only ever contain fixtures that behave like ordinary pages.

Risky fixtures — redirect loops, spider traps, oversized responses, deliberate slowness — are never linked from safe surfaces. They are published only in the risky manifest and must be entered directly, one URL at a time, by a crawler operator who intends to test them.

Helper routes (intermediate hops of chains and clusters) appear only in the canonical manifest, marked with routeClass: helper. Never use a helper route as a crawl entry point.

Fixtures that intentionally exit this site’s infrastructure always target https://example.com/ and are flagged external: true in the registry; they are excluded from the default sitemap so an unattended crawl never leaves the fixture domain.

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