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Kimi user agents, explained.

Kimi (Moonshot AI) ships a crawler for its 200K-context assistant. Learn the user agents, control access, and optimize long-form content for citation.

Kimi · Moonshot AIUpdated Apr 2026~6 min read2 user agents
TL;DR

Moonshot AI uses Kimibot as its primary crawler, with MoonshotBot / KimiCrawler as alternate identifiers seen in logs. Kimi's 200K-token context rewards long, well-structured content.

Overview

Kimi is built by Moonshot AI (月之暗面), a Chinese startup valued above $1B in 2024. Its 200K-token context window is one of the largest available — ideal for entire books, long research papers, and multi-file codebases.

Kimibot crawls the web to keep Kimi's knowledge base current and to analyze URLs that users paste into the chat.

How to identify the agents

2 crawlers

Kimi identifies itself with specific user-agent strings. Verify each through a published IP range.

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Kimibot

Kimi assistant · primary crawler
KnowledgeURL analysis
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Kimibot/1.0; +https://kimi.moonshot.cn/kimibot)

Moonshot AI's primary crawler. Feeds Kimi's knowledge base and analyzes URLs users paste into the chat. Respects robots.txt.

Verifiablekimi.moonshot.cn/kimibot
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MoonshotBot / KimiCrawler

Alternate identifiers
Knowledge
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MoonshotBot/1.0)

Alternate UA patterns used by Moonshot AI across services. Appears in logs alongside Kimibot for various content-gathering operations.

Verifiablemoonshot.cn

How Kimi accesses your content

3 access patterns, mapped to the agents above.

1

Knowledge base

Kimibot maintains an updated view of technical docs, news, and research.
2

URL analysis

When users paste links into Kimi, Kimibot fetches and summarizes on demand.
3

Long-form bias

Kimi's 200K context means it prefers comprehensive pages — length doesn't hurt.

Control Kimi's access

robots.txt

You control each agent independently. Common configurations below.

Allow Kimi crawlingRecommended

Stay citable inside Kimi answers.
# Allow Moonshot AI crawlers User-agent: Kimibot Allow: / User-agent: MoonshotBot Allow: /

Block Kimi completelyRestrictive

Keeps Moonshot AI out — no citations, no analysis.
# Block every Moonshot AI crawler User-agent: Kimibot Disallow: / User-agent: KimiCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: MoonshotBot Disallow: /

Research-only access

Expose research and docs, block everything else.
# Restrict Kimi to research content User-agent: Kimibot Allow: /research/ Allow: /papers/ Allow: /docs/ Disallow: /

Optimize content for Kimi.

Kimi's 200K context rewards depth. Write long, well-structured content — and it gets read in full.

Go long. Kimi can handle 200K tokens — don't truncate. Deep, comprehensive articles outperform short answers.
Use heading hierarchy. H1 → H2 → H3 so Kimi can navigate and reference specific sections.
Include citations and references. Kimi leans academic — linked sources raise authority.
Support bilingual content. Kimi performs well in both Chinese and English. Use proper lang attributes.
Provide structured data. Tables, lists, code blocks — Kimi extracts these cleanly.

Track Kimi visits with xSeek.

Track every Kimibot visit.

Monitor Kimibot and MoonshotBot hits. See which long-form pages Kimi references most and how your content surfaces in Moonshot's answers.

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Frequently asked questions

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Kimibot/1.0; +https://kimi.moonshot.cn/kimibot) is the primary identifier. You may also see KimiCrawler or MoonshotBot in logs.
Source: Moonshot AI's Kimibot page and platform.moonshot.cn.
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