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Kimi-User
Moonshot’s user-triggered Kimi fetcher. If Kimi cannot open the page, it cannot cite you in that answer.
- Operator
- Moonshot AI
- Traffic type
- AI answers
- Verification
- Not independently verifiable
- robots.txt
- Usually honors robots.txt
Usually means: Live fetches when someone asks an assistant a question. If these bots cannot reach the page, you cannot be the citation in that answer.
User-agent
robots.txt and most WAF rules match the token, not the full Mozilla string. Operators often wrap Kimi-User in extra product or version text.
Kimi-User
What Kimi-User does
Kimi-User fetches a URL to answer a person in Kimi. It is separate from Kimi-SearchBot (index) and KimiBot (broader crawl).
How to get discovered
Allow Kimi-User and Kimi-SearchBot, serve HTML, and keep a language-correct html lang when you publish for that audience.
Why Kimi-User might skip you
Geo or ASN blocks, unknown-UA WAF rules, or a robots file that only names US/EU AI bots and never Moonshot tokens.
robots.txt rule
Allow this token on public pages you want retrieved or cited. A CDN “Block AI bots” toggle can still 403 it after robots.txt says Allow.
# Keep Kimi-User eligible to fetch this site
User-agent: Kimi-User
Allow: /Moonshot AI has not published a machine-readable range file for this token. Do not treat the user-agent alone as proof of identity.
JavaScript: reads raw HTML only.
Other Moonshot AI bots
Training, search, and user-fetch tokens from the same operator are not interchangeable. Allow the discovery path even when you opt out of training.
Kimi-User FAQ
What is Kimi-User?
Kimi-User fetches a URL to answer a person in Kimi. It is separate from Kimi-SearchBot (index) and KimiBot (broader crawl).
Should I allow Kimi-User in robots.txt?
Yes if you want Moonshot AI to be able to fetch and cite this site. Blocking Kimi-User is how pages stay invisible to that product even when Googlebot still crawls them.
How do I know a request is really Kimi-User?
Moonshot AI has not published a range file for this token. Treat the user-agent as a claimed identity, and do not build a hard IP allowlist from blog posts or screenshots.
Letting Kimi-User in is the start. Getting cited is the job.
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