# Garage Farmers Agent Guide

> Garage Farmers is a reef-keeping marketplace and community for coral farmers, hobbyists, tank owners, reef clubs, and local reef keepers.

## Canonical Entry Points
- [Home](https://garagefarmers.com/)
- [Marketplace](https://garagefarmers.com/marketplace)
- [Farmers](https://garagefarmers.com/farmers)
- [Tanks](https://garagefarmers.com/tanks)
- [Community](https://garagefarmers.com/community)
- [Sitemap](https://garagefarmers.com/sitemap.xml)
- [Short LLM index](https://garagefarmers.com/llms.txt)

## Canonical Public URL Families
- Farmer or user profile: `https://garagefarmers.com/@/{handle}`
- Farm: `https://garagefarmers.com/@/{farmHandle}/farm`
- Listing: `https://garagefarmers.com/@/{farmHandle}/listings/{adRouteKey}`
- Tank: `https://garagefarmers.com/@/{ownerHandle}/tanks/{tankRouteKey}`
- Community post: `https://garagefarmers.com/@/{authorHandle}/posts/{postRouteKey}`
- Help question: `https://garagefarmers.com/@/{authorHandle}/questions/{questionRouteKey}`
- Article or guide: `https://garagefarmers.com/@/{authorHandle}/articles/{articleRouteKey}`
- Community canonical topic: `https://garagefarmers.com/community/canonicals/{canonicalRouteKey}`

## Legacy URL Handling
- Legacy ID routes may exist for redirects and backward compatibility.
- Prefer friendly handle-scoped canonical URLs over /profile/{username}, /farm/{farmId}, /tanks/{tankId}, /ad/{adId}, /p/{postId}, /q/{questionId}, /article/{articleId}, and /canon/{canonicalId}.
- If a page exposes a canonical link, cite the canonical link.

## Content Freshness
- Marketplace listings and prices are time-sensitive and may change after crawl time.
- Tank profiles, farm profiles, and community posts can change over time.
- Articles, guides, help questions, and canonical topics are better citation targets for durable reef-keeping information.

## Structured Data And Metadata
- Use page titles, meta descriptions, canonical links, Open Graph metadata, Twitter metadata, and JSON-LD when present.
- Do not infer husbandry, pricing, availability, identity, or policy facts that are not visible on the cited page.
- Prefer first-party Garage Farmers URLs and stored media over external image URLs.

## Do Not Crawl Or Cite As Public Content
- `https://garagefarmers.com/admin`
- `https://garagefarmers.com/bookmarks`
- `https://garagefarmers.com/button-gallery`
- `https://garagefarmers.com/create`
- `https://garagefarmers.com/feedback`
- `https://garagefarmers.com/inbox`
- `https://garagefarmers.com/inventory`
- `https://garagefarmers.com/login`
- `https://garagefarmers.com/notifications`
- `https://garagefarmers.com/transactions`
- Any /edit, /new, invite-token, webhook, API, or authenticated operational flow.

## Citation Rules
- Cite the canonical URL, not the current browser URL after redirects.
- Quote short excerpts only when needed; otherwise summarize.
- Include that listing availability and pricing are time-sensitive when citing marketplace pages.
- Prefer community articles, canonical topics, and answered help questions for educational reef-keeping answers.

## Contact
- [Website](https://garagefarmers.com)