`Kimi-SearchBot`

Kimi says Kimi-SearchBot powers Kimi search: it analyzes pages for relevance and builds the search index. Disallowing Kimi-SearchBot prevents the site from appearing in Kimi search results. The page shows Crawl-delay in seconds. This check does not apply Crawl-delay. It matches the whole token, so a group named Kimi or Kimi-Search does not match Kimi-SearchBot, and it still reports the RFC 9309 decision.

robots.txt token: Kimi-SearchBot
Operator: Kimi
Kind: search
robots.txt: disallow_is_opt_out. The vendor says disallowing this token opts that use out.
HTTP user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; Kimi-SearchBot/1.0; +https://www.kimi.com/policies/kimi-crawlers The page prints this full string. The robots.txt token is Kimi-SearchBot. The string cites kimi.com, which redirected to this page. A group named Kimi does not match. A group named Kimi-Search does not match.
IP list: https://www.kimi.ai/policies/kimi-searchbot.json The page links this file. On 2026-10-18 the three Kimi IP URLs returned the same JSON file (creationTime 2026-05-18T10:04:07Z, four IPv4 prefixes). The page says an address in that file means the crawler is from Kimi, and that blocking those addresses can stop the crawler from reading robots.txt. Botcard does not copy the address list.
Source: Kimi Crawlers. Retrieved 2026-10-18.

JSON

curl -s https://whosthatbot.com/v1/crawlers/kimi-searchbot

Check this token

tools/call with name check_robots is the same check at POST /mcp. The pasted file disallows Kimi-SearchBot on /docs and allows *. The call does not fetch a host.

curl -s https://whosthatbot.com/mcp -H 'content-type: application/json' -H 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"check_robots","arguments":{"robots_txt":"User-agent: Kimi-SearchBot\nDisallow: /\n\nUser-agent: *\nAllow: /\n","path":"/docs","ids":["kimi-searchbot"]}}}'

That call returns fetched_target false. This row is disallow via group Kimi-SearchBot, rule Disallow: /.