{
  "name": "buy-cycles",
  "title": "Buy Cycles With a Card",
  "category": "Infrastructure",
  "description": "Buy cycles with a credit card for the CLI's own identity with `icp cycles buy`, through CyclePay's on-chain gateway, then continue deploying. Use when a mainnet deploy or canister creation fails for lack of cycles, the user has no ICP, no wallet or no exchange account, or asks to pay for cycles by card, Stripe, fiat or USD. Do NOT use for converting ICP you already hold (cycles-management: `icp cycles mint`), for topping up a canister from an existing balance, or for Internet Identity sign-in (agent-web-identity).",
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "compatibility": "icp-cli with `icp cycles buy` (dfinity/icp-cli#815; `icp cycles --help` lists `buy`), or any icp-cli >= 1.0 for the `icp canister call` fallback. Mainnet (`-n ic`). A human with a browser on any device to pay.",
  "updated": "2026-10-15T01:08:00.000Z",
  "urls": {
    "html": "https://skills.internetcomputer.org/skills/buy-cycles/",
    "markdown": "https://skills.internetcomputer.org/.well-known/skills/buy-cycles/SKILL.md",
    "json": "https://skills.internetcomputer.org/api/skills/buy-cycles.json",
    "source": "https://github.com/dfinity/icskills/blob/c7b60ca8f8199f9f73122ff5d4a6e1321da380f1/skills/buy-cycles/SKILL.md"
  },
  "publisher": {
    "name": "DFINITY Foundation",
    "url": "https://dfinity.org"
  },
  "canonicalRepo": {
    "name": "dfinity/icskills",
    "url": "https://github.com/dfinity/icskills"
  }
}