Moonshot AI · Training crawlers
KimiBot
Moonshot’s public-content crawler. Blocking KimiBot is a training-style opt-out; keep Kimi-SearchBot allowed for discovery.
- Operator
- Moonshot AI
- Traffic type
- Training crawlers
- Verification
- Not independently verifiable
- robots.txt
- Usually honors robots.txt
Usually means: Bots that collect public pages for future models. Blocking them opts you out of training. It does not, by itself, remove you from live AI search citations.
User-agent
robots.txt and most WAF rules match the token, not the full Mozilla string. Operators often wrap KimiBot in extra product or version text.
KimiBot
What KimiBot does
KimiBot collects public pages for Moonshot systems. Kimi-SearchBot and Kimi-User are the retrieval pair.
How to get discovered
Allow the search/user tokens for Kimi citations. Disallow KimiBot only if you want to opt out of broader collection.
Why KimiBot might skip you
A Kimi* wildcard that also blocked Kimi-SearchBot, or geo/WAF rules that drop Moonshot ASNs.
robots.txt rule
This snippet opts out of training-style collection. Keep the search and user-fetch tokens from the same operator allowed if you still want citations.
# Optional training opt-out — does not remove you from AI search by itself
User-agent: KimiBot
Disallow: /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.
KimiBot FAQ
What is KimiBot?
KimiBot collects public pages for Moonshot systems. Kimi-SearchBot and Kimi-User are the retrieval pair.
Should I allow KimiBot in robots.txt?
Only if you want to opt out of training-style collection. Blocking KimiBot does not, by itself, remove you from live AI search citations — those use the search and user-fetch tokens from Moonshot AI.
How do I know a request is really KimiBot?
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 KimiBot in is the start. Getting cited is the job.
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