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

Cohere Startup Program

A 25% discount on all Cohere models for up to 12 months, plus technical support and co-marketing. A discount, not credits — there is no dollar ceiling.

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

1 distinct offer under one brand name, each behind its own gate.

Startup discount

25% discount on all Cohere models for up to 12 months + technical support + co-marketing. Discount, NOT free credits.

How you get in: application
Published ceiling: none published — this is not $0, it is a number the program does not state

Apply ↗

Who this is for

Application-gated. Series B or earlier, building enterprise AI apps. Non-dilutive. Global.

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 — This is a discount, NOT free credits
The entry says so twice. A 25% discount on spend you were going to make is a different financial object from a credit balance — do not put it in a credits total.
Source: data/credits.ts Cohere .flags ["Discount not credits"]

Sources

data/credits.ts — "Cohere Startup Program" .value (verbatim) data/credits.ts — 25% discount on all Cohere models for up to 12 months + technical support + co-marketing. Discount, NOT free credits.
data/credits.ts — "Cohere Startup Program" .note (verbatim) data/credits.ts — Separate research grants: Cohere Labs Catalyst.
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.
Cohere Startup Program — apply page ↗

Facts last re-checked 2026-07-07 (from the source itself). No material change observed since — which is not the same as none having happened.