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Kimi-User

Moonshot AI's user-triggered fetcher that retrieves live pages when a Kimi user asks for them.
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What is Kimi-User?

Kimi-User is listed on Moonshot AI's Kimi crawlers page as the bot behind user-initiated actions in Kimi. A visit usually maps to a person asking Kimi about a specific page or a question that needs fresh information.

The documented user agent is Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; Kimi-User/1.0; +https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers. Moonshot AI publishes IP ranges for it in a JSON file.

Moonshot AI says Kimi-User is not used for automated bulk crawling and that, because actions are user-triggered, robots.txt rules may not directly apply.

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Is Kimi-User relevant for AI search?

Yes. Kimi-User fetches pages when a Kimi user asks for live information, so it decides whether Kimi can read and cite you in that answer.

Kimi-User handles user-initiated actions, such as asking Kimi to summarize a specific article or answer a question that needs live retrieval. Moonshot AI says disallowing it may reduce your visibility in user-directed searches. It is not used for bulk crawling, and robots.txt rules may not directly apply.

How to handle Kimi-User

Most sites keep Kimi-User allowed, since each request is a person trying to use your content. If you want to opt out, add:

User-agent: Kimi-User
Disallow: /

Because Moonshot AI says the rule may not directly apply, check your logs and use the published IP ranges if you need a firewall block. Use Kimi-SearchBot and KimiBot rules for search and training decisions.

Examples

  • A Kimi user pastes a link to a blog post and asks for a summary, and Kimi-User fetches that single page.
  • A site owner matches a short burst of Kimi-User requests to a user's research question and leaves it allowed.

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Moonshot AI says robots.txt rules may not directly apply because the fetches are triggered by users.

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