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Kimi-User

Handles user-initiated actions in Kimi, such as summarising an article or answering a question that needs live web content. Blocking it may reduce your visibility in searches users make through Kimi.

robots.txt name

Kimi-User

User agent

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; Kimi-User/1.0; +https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers

Category

AI answers: Fetch a page when someone asks an assistant about it.

Follows robots.txt

Partly. The company says that because these fetches are started by a user, robots.txt rules may not apply to them.

Official documentation

https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers

Published IP ranges

https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-user.json

Checked against the official documentation on October 17, 2026.

Block or allow it in robots.txt

Add these lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. To block it everywhere:

User-agent: Kimi-User
Disallow: /

To allow it everywhere except one folder:

User-agent: Kimi-User
Disallow: /private/

This bot does not always follow robots.txt. To keep it out for sure, block it on your server or firewall by user agent and, where published, by IP range.

Is it really this bot?

Anyone can copy a user agent. To be sure a request comes from Moonshot AI, compare its IP address with the ranges the company publishes.

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