Kimi-User
Kimi-User is Moonshot AI's on-demand crawler. It only activates when someone uses the Kimi assistant and asks it to look up, summarise, or retrieve information from a specific page — it is not used for bulk background crawling. If a user asks Kimi something related to your business and Kimi goes to fetch the answer from your site, this bot needs access to read and use that content in its response.
- User-agent
Kimi-UserMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; Kimi-User/1.0; +https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers- Does it respect robots.txt?
- Yes
- Official documentation
- https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers
How to allow it in your robots.txt
User-agent: Kimi-User
Allow: /How to block it (not recommended)
User-agent: Kimi-User
Disallow: /Frequently asked questions
Should I block Kimi-User?
Not if you want visibility in AI-generated answers. Blocking it means Kimi cannot read your site when a user asks a question related to what you offer. Your business would be left out of those responses even if you have the most relevant content available.
How does Kimi-User affect my AI visibility?
Unlike training crawlers, this bot acts at the exact moment a user makes a query. If someone asks Kimi about a product or service like yours, the bot goes to look for the answer on the web. Having accessible, clearly written content increases the chances that Kimi pulls from your site to respond.
How do I know if Kimi-User is visiting my site?
Look for "Kimi-User" in your server access logs or your CDN dashboard, for example in Cloudflare. Since Kimi operates from dynamic IP ranges, checking the user-agent field in your logs is the most reliable way to spot these visits — far more reliable than trying to block by IP address.