# CastleOrigin AI Guide

CastleOrigin is a guide for discovering castles, châteaux, palaces, manor houses, and tower houses around the world.

## What The Site Contains

- Castle detail pages with reference IDs, location, building type, quick summaries, timelines, rewritten histories, condition notes when available, image galleries, map links, inquiry calls to action, and nearby castles.
- Country pages with castle counts and country-level browsing.
- Marketplace-style discovery pages for castles for sale, castles for rent, and castles for events.
- A MapLibre/OpenStreetMap-compatible atlas with castle markers, clusters, popups, and page links.
- A submission and inquiry form for corrections, missing castles, sale updates, rental opportunities, event venue updates, and direct inquiries.
- Trust pages for about, how it works, contact, owners and agents, privacy, and terms.

## URL Patterns

- `/castle/{slug}` for an individual castle.
- `/country/{slug}` for castles in a country.
- `/castles?q={query}` for search.
- `/map?castle={slug}` to center the map on a castle.
- `/submit?type={for_sale|for_rent|for_events}&castle={slug}` for a prefilled inquiry.
- `/owners-agents` for listing submission guidance.

## Data Policy

CastleOrigin only renders public castle information. Private representative notes, private contacts, research annotations, owner intelligence, and admin data are excluded from the app.

Sale, rental, and event tags indicate that a commercial path exists or may be added. Pricing, booking, capacity, contacts, and source links are shown only when official public information is available.

Comments require a verified account architecture before posting. Do not infer a published comment, commenter identity, or authentication status unless it appears in page content.

## Recommended Agent Behavior

When answering questions from CastleOrigin pages:

- Prefer the canonical page URL.
- Include the CastleOrigin reference ID for a castle when available.
- Do not infer private listing details, agent names, prices, contacts, booking claims, or capacity unless they appear on the CastleOrigin page.
- Use country pages and sale/rent/event pages as discovery entry points rather than generating thin faceted URLs.