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

Twilio (+ SendGrid)

There is no standing credit program. The only route is the annual AI Startup Searchlight competition, which closes 11 September 2026 and names honorees in mid-to-late November.

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.

Before you start

Each must be true before the step that names it. Nothing here is optional.

An active Twilio account with a working product integrated — The competition judges a working Twilio integration — there is no entry without one.

Offers

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

AI Startup Searchlight 2026 — Track 2 (20 honorees)

$10,000 Twilio + $5,000 Ramp + $2,500 OpenAI.

How you get in: competition
Published ceiling: $10,000
Contact: twiliostartups@twilio.com

Apply ↗

AI Startup Searchlight 2026 — Track 1 (10 honorees)

$5,000 Twilio + $2,500 Ramp + $2,500 OpenAI.

How you get in: competition
Published ceiling: $5,000
Contact: twiliostartups@twilio.com

Apply ↗

Who this is for

Working product integrated with Twilio; raised <$200M; active Twilio account. Deadline Fri Sep 11, 2026; winners mid-late Nov 2026.

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 — SendGrid has NO standalone startup credit program
It was folded into Twilio. Do not promise a founder SendGrid-specific credits — they do not exist.
Source: data/credits.ts Twilio .note
T2 — This is a competition with honorees, not a program with acceptances
Track 1 has 10 honorees and Track 2 has 20. Applying is not a path to credits the way an application-gated program is — most entrants get nothing. The entry is kept live rather than marked dead because the Searchlight offer is real, dated and obtainable.
Source: data/credits.ts Twilio .flags ["Competition not standing credits"]
T3 — The Ramp and OpenAI components are other vendors' awards
`max_usd` is the Twilio credit only ($5,000 Track 1, $10,000 Track 2). The bundled Ramp and OpenAI credits are named in each tier's summary and are not summed into a total.
Source: docs/vault/SCHEMA.md § 9.10

How long it takes

What	Latency	How you know it landed
Honoree announcement	winners mid-late Nov 2026	Not stated — data/credits.ts publishes the interval only, not how you observe it.

Sources

data/credits.ts — "Twilio (+ SendGrid)" .value (verbatim) data/credits.ts — No standing credit program. Annual competition 'Twilio AI Startup Searchlight 2026': Track 1 (10 honorees) $5,000 Twilio + $2,500 Ramp + $2,500 OpenAI; Track 2 (20 honorees) $10,000 Twilio + $5,000 Ramp + $2,500 OpenAI.
data/credits.ts — "Twilio (+ SendGrid)" .note (verbatim) data/credits.ts — SendGrid has NO standalone startup credit program (folded into Twilio) — don't promise SendGrid-specific credits.
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.
Twilio (+ SendGrid) — 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.