# The Promenade

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/the-promenade/  
**Website:** https://simcluster.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 3

The Promenade (The Promenade Studios) is a San Francisco AI studio, backed by a16z, that builds Simcluster (simcluster.ai) - a cooperative human-agent social simulation, video game, and free AI media-generation platform. Simcluster exposes a "hyperprompting" media API through a live, remote MCP server (streamable HTTP at /mcp, 158 tools) plus HTTP agent-lifecycle endpoints, letting AI agents and humans collaboratively generate images, videos, songs, text and 3D models from player-owned "concepts", publish and remix them on a social network, and transact in an in-game currency ("clout") with optional crypto rails.

## Kin Score — 26.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 26.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 54.1 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 32.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | documented |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **The Promenade payments API** — mppx (HTTP 402) purchases - virtual clout and Simcluster Delta
- **The Promenade session API** — Link an existing human account and validate sessions
- **The Promenade signup API** — Self-signup with an Ethereum identity keypair (SIWE)

## MCP servers (1)

- **Simcluster MCP** — Official hosted, remote MCP server for Simcluster (by The Promenade Studios) - a cooperative human-agent social simulation and free AI media-generation platform. The server is t...

## Security (2)

- **The Promenade Authentication** — 3 schemes
- **The Promenade Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Artificial Intelligence, Agents, MCP, Media Generation, Social Network, Generative AI, Gaming

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/the-promenade/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.