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

Groq (for Startups / Partner Program)

$10,000 of LPU inference credits by referral only, expiring 90 days after award — plus a genuinely generous free tier that needs no card and no application.

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.

Partner-program credits

$10,000 LPU inference credits (expires 90 days after award).

How you get in: referral
Published ceiling: $10,000

Apply ↗

Self-serve free tier

A generous self-serve free tier (no card): ~30 req/min, 14,400 req/day.

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

Apply ↗

Who this is for

Referral / hand-selected — NOT self-serve. Often bundled inside accelerator perks. The free tier is immediate.

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 — 90-day expiry from AWARD, not from first use
The clock starts when the credits are granted. If your GPU workload is three months out, the credits will be gone before you spend them.
Source: data/credits.ts Groq .value
T2 — Cold applications do not convert
The credits are hand-selected and usually bundled inside accelerator perks. Without a warm intro or an accelerator affiliation, expect nothing.
Source: data/credits.ts Groq .note
T3 — The $10K figure is approximate
`freshness.evidence` is approx. The free-tier rate limits (~30 req/min, 14,400 req/day) are the concrete part of this entry.
Source: data/credits.ts Groq .flags ["$10K approx"]

Sources

data/credits.ts — "Groq (for Startups / Partner Program)" .value (verbatim) data/credits.ts — $10,000 LPU inference credits (expires 90 days after award). Plus a generous self-serve free tier (no card): ~30 req/min, 14,400 req/day.
data/credits.ts — "Groq (for Startups / Partner Program)" .note (verbatim) data/credits.ts — Cold applications may not convert without a warm intro or accelerator affiliation.
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.
Groq (for Startups / Partner Program) — apply page ↗

Facts last re-checked 2026-07-07 (second-hand — verify before quoting). No material change observed since — which is not the same as none having happened.