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 · SaaS / fintech / tooling · unproven

Mercury (Raise)

NOT a credits program, and labelled that way on purpose. Raise is Mercury's fundraising and community program: warm investor introductions through Investor Connect, plus a vetted founder community. Free and self-serve. Mercury's dollar credits live in a different program — see the traps.

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.

Investor Connect

Investor Connect (warm investor intros).

How you get in: application
Published ceiling: none published — this is not $0, it is a number the program does not state
Contact: Mallory Contois (Head of Community)

Apply ↗

Founder community

Vetted founder community.

How you get in: self-serve
Published ceiling: none published — this is not $0, it is a number the program does not state
Contact: Mallory Contois (Head of Community)

Apply ↗

Who this is for

Self-serve, free. Pre-seed/seed. Investor Connect requires a pitch. Mercury account for banking-linked perks.

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 — Raise awards no dollar credits — the credits are a different program
Both tiers are `non-monetary` and both ceilings are null, because that is what Raise is. The "$5k AWS / $5k Azure" figures people associate with Mercury belong to **Mercury Perks**, a separate program that is **not an entry in this inventory and has not been researched**. It is filed as a named gap (`CREDIT_ENTRY_GAPS`, id `mercury-perks`). Treat those numbers as an unverified aside in another program's note, never as terms you can budget against.
Source: data/credits.ts Mercury (Raise) .value + .note ("Don't conflate Raise (no $ credits) with Mercury Perks (the AWS/Azure vault).")
T2 — The two tiers have different gates
The founder community is genuinely self-serve. **Investor Connect requires a pitch** — it is reviewed, not opened. Do not plan around warm intros arriving on signup.
Source: data/credits.ts Mercury (Raise) .eligibility
T3 — The Mercury-account requirement is on the OTHER program
The eligibility line *"Mercury account for banking-linked perks"* is about the perk vault, not about Raise. Raise itself is free and self-serve; moving your banking is not a prerequisite of this entry, which is why no `requires` edge asserts one.
Source: data/credits.ts Mercury (Raise) .eligibility + .value

Sources

data/credits.ts — "Mercury (Raise)" .value (verbatim) data/credits.ts — Raise is a fundraising/community program, NOT credits: Investor Connect (warm investor intros) + vetted founder community. (Dollar credits like $5k AWS/$5k Azure are separate 'Mercury Perks'.)
data/credits.ts — "Mercury (Raise)" .note (verbatim) data/credits.ts — Head of Community: Mallory Contois. Don't conflate Raise (no $ credits) with Mercury Perks (the AWS/Azure vault).
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.
Mercury (Raise) — 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.