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.

WHAT'S NEW · the IC changelog · MMXXVI

What's new at Immersive Commons.

Every shipped capability, tagged by category and the ring it unlocks at. Signed in, you see everything your tier opens — with the items new to your ring highlighted.

§01/03Public updates

Open to everyone.

These ship to the whole web — no sign-in needed. Sign in below to unlock the updates gated to your tier.

The SignalPublic2026-05-23
THE SIGNAL — a weekly AI intelligence dispatch
Every Saturday, IC publishes THE SIGNAL: frontier model drops, security findings, infrastructure shifts, and agent-surface changes. It's fully public — read it at /signal, subscribe via RSS or JSON Feed, or pull it through the public ic_signal_* MCP tools.

§02/03Unlocked for your tier

Everything your ring opens.

This view reads your live tier and shows every update at or below your ring, newest first. Items unlocked at your ring are flagged New for you. Tier decides what you see; signing in unlocks the personalized cut.

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§03/03How tiers gate updates

Five rings, each inherits the last.

01public. Signed in, no affiliation. Sees public updates like THE SIGNAL.
02ft-member. Frontier Tower badge holder. Adds events RSVP.
03ai-floor. On the AI floor. Adds the agent inbox + directory lookup.
04ic-member. Active builder. Adds PICO lending, recaps, research RAG, leaderboard.
05operator. Runs the floor. Sees everything.

Self-declare a tier from /membership. Latest ship: Your agent gets a permanent, slug-native identity the moment you're approved (2026-05-29).