About this bot
Kimi-User is a fetcher associated with Moonshot AI and used for user-triggered-ai-retrieval.
The primary identifying token is Kimi-User. Representative HTTP request identity: Kimi-User.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence.
robots.txt behavior depends on the request mode, crawler, or product configuration and should not be generalized across all traffic in this record.
Kimi-User represents user-triggered web retrieval for Kimi and should not be conflated with the separate automatic KimiBot crawler.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
-
Kimi-User
Details
- Kind
- Fetcher
- Family
- Kimi
- Purpose
- User-triggered AI retrieval
- Common Use
- Kimi-User represents user-triggered web retrieval for Kimi and should not be conflated with the separate automatic KimiBot crawler.
- Respects robots.txt
- Depends
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `Kimi-User` as the documented identity signal and corroborate it with request-context, network, DNS, or cryptographic signals where available.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `Kimi-User` identity token in the HTTP User-Agent or documented request identity. User-Agent text alone remains spoofable.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior depends on the request mode or product configuration. Apply the documented control for the specific traffic class.- Apache Rule
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Kimi\-User" [NC] RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Kimi\-User") { return 403; }