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Moonshot AI bots and crawlers
Moonshot AI builds the Kimi models and assistant.
Moonshot AI bots at a glance
- Moonshot AI runs 5 bots listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Agents, AI Search Crawlers, AI Assistant Fetchers, AI Training Crawlers.
- Each Moonshot AI bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.moonshot.ai
Every Moonshot AI bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi-Agent | AI Agents | AI agentReported | Not documented | Your choice |
| Kimi-SearchBot | AI Search Crawlers | AI searchOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
| Kimi-User | AI Assistant Fetchers | AI assistantReported | Not documented | Your choice |
| KimiBot | AI Training Crawlers | AI trainingOfficial docs | Yes | Your choice |
| MoonshotBot | AI Training Crawlers | AI trainingReported | Not documented | Your choice |
Block or allow all Moonshot AI bots
The rules below name every Moonshot AI token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Moonshot AI bots
User-agent: Kimi-Agent
User-agent: Kimi-SearchBot
User-agent: Kimi-User
User-agent: KimiBot
User-agent: MoonshotBot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Moonshot AI bots
User-agent: Kimi-Agent
User-agent: Kimi-SearchBot
User-agent: Kimi-User
User-agent: KimiBot
User-agent: MoonshotBot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Moonshot AI bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Kimi-Agent
User-agent: Kimi-SearchBot
User-agent: Kimi-User
User-agent: KimiBot
User-agent: MoonshotBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Moonshot AI bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Kimi\-Agent|Kimi\-SearchBot|Kimi\-User|KimiBot|MoonshotBot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Moonshot AI bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Kimi\-Agent|Kimi\-SearchBot|Kimi\-User|KimiBot|MoonshotBot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
(http.user_agent contains "Kimi-Agent") or (http.user_agent contains "Kimi-SearchBot") or (http.user_agent contains "Kimi-User") or (http.user_agent contains "KimiBot") or (http.user_agent contains "MoonshotBot")See which of these bots actually reach your website
The AI Log File Analyzer by Justin Hà counts visits from GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and other AI crawlers in your server log, for free. The GEO Technical Package sets up robots.txt, llms.txt and crawler access for AI search.
