About this bot
KimiBot is a crawler associated with Moonshot AI and used for ai-training-crawling.
The primary identifying token is KimiBot. Representative HTTP request identity: KimiBot.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under KimiBot.
KimiBot is Moonshot AI’s automatic crawler and is separately controllable from user-triggered Kimi retrieval.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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KimiBot
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Kimi
- Purpose
- AI training crawling
- Common Use
- KimiBot is Moonshot AI’s automatic crawler and is separately controllable from user-triggered Kimi retrieval.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `KimiBot` as the documented identity signal and corroborate it with request-context, network, DNS, or cryptographic signals where available.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `KimiBot` identity token in the HTTP User-Agent or documented request identity. User-Agent text alone remains spoofable.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: KimiBot Disallow: /- Apache Rule
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "KimiBot" [NC] RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "KimiBot") { return 403; }