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.

The Vault · Foundation-model APIs · unproven

Anthropic (Claude) Startup Program

Free first-party Claude API credits and the highest rate-limit tier, self-serve in about two minutes. Anthropic publishes no dollar figure.

First-try successnot yet measuredNo one has reported running this yet. Below 5 answers a “rate” is one person’s experience wearing a percent sign, so we publish nothing rather than something false.

Ran this? Answer two questions — did it work first try, and if not, which step broke — via the ic_vault_feedback_submit MCP tool or POST /api/vault/feedback. An entry with no answers has no rate, and that is the honest state, not a placeholder.

Offers

2 distinct offers under one brand name, each behind its own gate.

Institutionally-funded path

Free Claude API credits + priority (highest) rate limits. Official terms publish NO dollar figure; blogs cite $25K.

How you get in: self-serve
Published ceiling: none published — this is not $0, it is a number the program does not state
Contact: Claude Console

Apply ↗

No-VC path

Free Claude API credits + priority (highest) rate limits. Official terms publish NO dollar figure; blogs cite $25K.

How you get in: self-serve
Published ceiling: none published — this is not $0, it is a number the program does not state
Contact: Claude Console

Apply ↗

Who this is for

Received equity funding from an institutional investor + founded within last 4 years + not previously received Anthropic credits. A no-VC path also exists. Partner-VC/accelerator backing unlocks an additional benefits track.

To have this checked against your own facts, call ic_vault_match. It answers in three values — you qualify, you do not, or we cannot tell from what the vendor publishes — and it will never report “you qualify” while any gate is unknown.

Traps

Every one of these cost real time. Ordered by how early they bite.

T1 — Credits are first-party Claude API ONLY
They do not work on AWS Bedrock or Google Vertex. If your stack calls Claude through a hyperscaler, these credits buy you nothing.
Source: data/credits.ts Anthropic .note
T2 — Do not quote $25K — Anthropic publishes no figure
The official terms state no dollar amount; the $25K number is blog-sourced. `max_usd` is null on both tiers for that reason, and `freshness.evidence` is "mixed".
Source: data/credits.ts Anthropic .flags ["Dollar figure not official"]
T3 — The no-VC path exists but its gates are unstated
The entry says a no-VC path exists and says nothing more. It is modelled as its own tier with the claim verbatim in `unstructured`, so an evaluator returns `indeterminate` rather than telling a bootstrapped founder they are ineligible.
Source: docs/vault/SCHEMA.md § 9.8

Sources

data/credits.ts — "Anthropic (Claude) Startup Program" .value (verbatim) data/credits.ts — Free Claude API credits + priority (highest) rate limits. Official terms publish NO dollar figure; blogs cite $25K.
data/credits.ts — "Anthropic (Claude) Startup Program" .note (verbatim) data/credits.ts — Credits are first-party Claude API only (not AWS Bedrock / Google Vertex). The accelerator-partner track is the cohort lever for IC.
CREDITS_META.lastUpdated — a lower bound on last_verified data/credits.ts — The file records 2026-07-07 as when the FILE was updated, not when this entry was individually re-checked.
Anthropic (Claude) Startup Program — apply page ↗

Facts last re-checked 2026-07-07 (official program, some figures second-hand). No material change observed since — which is not the same as none having happened.