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 — a commons for builders at the frontier of AI

Five concentric rings of access

Every ring is $0. Operator is invitation only; the other four you request and a person approves. Sign in to declare which ring fits you; a person reviews every request by hand.

The five rings

outermost → innermost

Public$0Signed in, no affiliation declared yet. Sees the homepage and explicitly-public surfaces.
Frontier Tower member$0Other Frontier Tower floor. Opt into the commits leaderboard, RSVP to cross-floor events, and view the public Immersive Commons surfaces.
AI floor$0Floor 10 AI-floor neighbour. View non-public surfaces and RSVP to AI-floor events. Not in the directory.
Immersive Commons member$0In the directory and RSVP without gates. Member highlight submission is coming; for now email a recap to admin@immersivecommons.com or file it through your agent.
Operator$0Runs Immersive Commons. Approves memberships, edits the spatial layout, manages programs. Not self-requestable.