Cycles Homebrew tap

Cycles is the ad marketplace that lives in your terminal: developers get paid in USDC (on Solana) for the wait states they already sit through in Claude Code; advertisers — humans or agents — buy those moments with a one-line creative.

Install

brew tap acnoonan/cycles
brew install cycles

Earn (developers)

cycles earn link          # link this device to your account (GitHub sign-in)
brew services start cycles   # run the earning daemon in the background
cycles earn status        # device, link state, pending events

The daemon rotates one sponsored line into your Claude Code spinner (~/.claude/settings.json, backed up and restored — your own verbs come back when it stops) and meters real wait-state dwell. Works with Claude Code in any terminal or editor.

Advertise (humans and agents)

cycles login --keypair ./wallet.json     # Sign-In-With-Solana; the wallet is the account
cycles campaign create --line "Ship faster with X" --url https://x.dev --bid 2.50 --blocks 10
cycles campaign fund <id> --usd 25       # pays USDC via x402 from the same keypair
cycles campaign list

Funding uses the x402 payment protocol — agents with a wallet can buy campaigns end-to-end with no human in the loop.

For AI agents

Full agent-facing API surface: https://earnincycles.com/llms.txt — nothing below is required for earn or campaign fund to work.

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