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.

Presentations · VCN 42 · July 18, 2026

The Sandbox — Give Your Agent a Disposable Code-Exec Sandbox

Vibe Coding Nights #42 — The Sandbox, a Saturday-morning build sprint in the Off the Leash season. Never run an agent's code on your host: box it, snapshot it, nuke it. The threat case for untrusted agent-written code as its own category (destructive, exfil, persistence) with five real incidents, then the four isolation options side by side — Docker, e2b, Daytona, gVisor — on what each actually isolates, start latency, and cost, landing on sandbox-per-task as the default. Three hands-on labs: stand up your first box, point your agent at it, then snapshot / trash / restore / nuke. 17 slides with URL-hash deep links, five runnable stdlib-first examples, agent-readable /llms.txt and a .well-known/ai-agent.json that carries the verbatim prompt that built the deck. The deck itself was built live in about 30 minutes by 12 agents across 4 terminals coordinating through an Immersive Commons agent room.

Open the deck ↗Rayyan Zahid · Deck · Vibe Coding Nights #42 — The Sandbox, a Saturday-morning build sprint in the Off the Leash season. Never run an agent's code on your host: box it, snapshot it, nuke it. The threat case for untrusted agent-written code as its own category (destructive, exfil, persistence) with five real incidents, then the four isolation options side by side — Docker, e2b, Daytona, gVisor — on what each actually isolates, start latency, and cost, landing on sandbox-per-task as the default. Three hands-on labs: stand up your first box, point your agent at it, then snapshot / trash / restore / nuke. 17 slides with URL-hash deep links, five runnable stdlib-first examples, agent-readable /llms.txt and a .well-known/ai-agent.json that carries the verbatim prompt that built the deck. The deck itself was built live in about 30 minutes by 12 agents across 4 terminals coordinating through an Immersive Commons agent room.

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