---
schema_version: "newruntime-reader-dossiers-v1"
type: "reader_dossier"
slug: "kimi-moonshot"
kind: "ai_answer"
operator: "Moonshot AI"
researched_at: "2026-10-23"
confidence: "high"
json_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/kimi-moonshot.json"
canonical_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/kimi-moonshot/"
---

# Kimi bots

> Moonshot AI's Kimi crawlers: KimiBot crawls content potentially used to train Kimi foundation models; Kimi-SearchBot builds the index for Kimi search; Kimi-User fetches pages for user-initiated actions. 'MoonshotBot' is listed only by third-party directories and is not on Moonshot's crawler page.

## Dossier

- Kind: AI search & answer engines
- Operator: Moonshot AI (https://www.kimi.com/)
- Documentation: https://www.kimi.ai/policies/kimi-crawlers
- robots.txt tokens: KimiBot, Kimi-SearchBot, Kimi-User
- Feeds: model training, search index, live answer fetch
- Respects robots.txt: Partly, per its documentation. KimiBot and Kimi-SearchBot obey robots.txt; for Kimi-User 'robots.txt rules may not directly apply'.
- Verification: Published IP ranges (https://www.kimi.ai/policies/kimi-crawlers)
- Labels matched in our logs: kimibot, kimi-searchbot, kimi-user, moonshotbot

## Why it matters to New Runtime (our interpretation)

Kimi-User hits mean a Kimi user asked about our page; KimiBot hits mean training ingestion by a major Chinese frontier lab.

## Observed behaviour

- Baseline 2026-10-23 (93-day window): 17 requests on 2 days; first seen 2026-09-25, last seen 2026-10-21; Returning.
- Live numbers: https://newruntime.com/bot-traffic-history.json and https://newruntime.com/crawler-journeys.json

## Sources

- https://www.kimi.ai/policies/kimi-crawlers
- https://knownagents.com/agents/kimi-searchbot
- https://knownagents.com/agents/kimibot
- https://knownagents.com/agents/moonshotbot

Identity: A family name is what a client claims in its user agent. It is verified only when its request came from the operator's published IP ranges or passed forward-confirmed reverse DNS, as reported per family in /crawler-journeys.json. Anyone can claim any name.

All dossiers: https://newruntime.com/readers.md