KimiBot
KimiBot is the training crawler operated by Moonshot AI, the Chinese company behind the Kimi AI assistant. It visits publicly accessible pages and stores their content so that Kimi's models can learn from it. If your website is included in that training data, Kimi is more likely to know your business and mention it when users ask about products or services like yours. Moonshot AI honours robots.txt: adding a Disallow directive will prevent your content from being used in training.
- User-agent
KimiBotKimiBot/1.0- Does it respect robots.txt?
- Yes
- Official documentation
- https://kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers
How to allow it in your robots.txt
User-agent: KimiBot
Allow: /How to block it (not recommended)
User-agent: KimiBot
Disallow: /Frequently asked questions
Should I block KimiBot?
If your goal is to grow your visibility through AI assistants, probably not. Blocking KimiBot means Kimi's models won't learn from your content, reducing the chances of your business being mentioned when someone asks Kimi about what you offer. If you have content you'd prefer to keep out of AI training entirely, you can block it with a Disallow rule in your robots.txt file.
Does KimiBot affect how my business appears in the Kimi assistant?
Yes, indirectly. KimiBot feeds the training data for Moonshot AI's models. The better written and more accessible your website is, the greater the chance that Kimi learns about your brand and references it in its responses. There's no guarantee of being mentioned, but being in the training data is a necessary first step.
How can I tell if KimiBot is visiting my site?
Search for "KimiBot" in your server access logs or in the analytics panel of your hosting provider or CDN — for example, Cloudflare. Every visit is recorded with that name in the user-agent field.