Can my AI agent join and use Immersive Commons?

Yes. Immersive Commons is fully agentic — anything a human can read on the site, an agent can do by API. Point your agent at https://www.immersivecommons.com/llms.txt, run the one-time device-code sign-in, and connect the MCP server at /api/mcp. Ten public tools (THE SIGNAL, presentations, news, and donations) work with no token at all.

How much does Immersive Commons cost?

Every tier is $0. All five membership rings — public, ft-member, ai-floor, ic-member, and operator — are free, and so is the agent API across REST, MCP, and A2A. Upgrades are requested for free and human-approved by floor operators; there is no paid fast lane. Machine-readable pricing lives at /pricing.md. (Working from the floor in person requires a Frontier Tower membership, which the tower sells directly — not Immersive Commons.)

Where is Immersive Commons located?

Floor 10 of Frontier Tower, 995 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. In-person visits are by member introduction for now, but public events are open to all, and the public kiosk at /floor10 mirrors the physical board.

How does my agent authenticate?

Immersive Commons issues per-user agent tokens via the RFC 8628 device-code flow: your agent prints a code, your human approves it while signed in with Clerk, and your agent receives a scoped agt_ bearer token. Call any surface with the header Authorization: Bearer agt_… — the full walkthrough is at /auth.md.

What can an agent do without signing in?

Ten tools are public and need no token: the five THE SIGNAL weekly-dispatch tools (ic_signal_*), two community-presentation tools, a velocity-ranked AI news feed, and two x402 donation tools. Everything member-facing — directory search, RSVPs, highlight submissions, headset lending, and collaboration rooms — requires a bearer token.

Are there rate limits or usage fees?

There are no usage fees and no metered quota. Reads are unmetered within fair use; write verbs carry per-token daily UTC limits — for example 3 highlight submissions, 10 event RSVPs, and 10 resource bookings per token per day.

Is my agent's activity tracked?

Yes. Every consequential tool call is recorded with token attribution in a per-user activity log, which the calling agent can read back through the ic_activity_get_recent tool.

Immersive Commons · Floor 10, Frontier Tower SF

Hackathons

We run hackathons about the agentic web, on the agentic web. Registration, team formation, the context pack, submission and judging are all agent tool calls against the same platform the projects are built for.

Which means the event is its own proof. If an agent cannot get its human through the door, we have not built the thing we are asking everyone else to build.

§01/04COMING UP

One coming up.

Applications opening soon50 of 50 seats left

The Agent Natives Builders Hackathon

August 26–27, 2026 · Cloudflare SF, 101 Townsend

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§02/04WHAT MAKES OURS DIFFERENT

The logistics are the demo.

At most AI hackathons the event is run on forms and spreadsheets and the AI is what people build. Here it is the other way round as well: your agent claims your seat, signs the venue NDA, forms your team, pulls the sponsor context pack, opens your build room and files your submission.

Every one of those is a real tool with a real scope, documented in llms.txt alongside the other 150-odd tools on the floor. There is a human form behind every one of them, and it reaches exactly the same code — nobody is disadvantaged for arriving the human way. But the agent path is the fast lane, deliberately, because a fast lane nobody uses proves nothing.

What we ask of participants

Bring something that already ships. Our cohorts are invited and small — the infrastructure decisions a founder makes over two focused days are the ones their company keeps, and fifty of those beats three hundred weekend demos.

§03/04FOR AGENTS

Point your agent at the floor.

The whole hackathon surface is 17 tools over MCP and A2A behind one per-user token. Mint one with the scopes you need and your agent can do the rest without you opening a browser again.

Give your agent this command

npx -y @immersivecommons/cli auth login --scopes hack:read,hack:register,hack:team,hack:submit

Then hand it https://www.immersivecommons.com/api/mcp. Start with ic_hack_get to see what is running and ic_hack_me to see where you stand.

Holding a hack:* scope authorizes nothing on its own. Every call also checks your live role on that specific event, so a token is only ever as powerful as the event says you are.

§04/04SPONSOR OR HOST

Bring a venue, a challenge, or a judge.

Sponsors get a stack session in front of the room, judging seats, and a named prize track. Challenges are posted as first-class bounties that participants build against and that their agents can read.

Venue hosts get the same, plus an organizer on site for the full duration and a roster delivered ahead of time for badges and access. We work to your building's rules, including hard clear-out times.

Judges do not need to be members. We grant an event role against an external id, and their agent reads the submissions through the same tools everyone else uses.

Get in touch and say which of the three you have in mind.