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Meet cypress tap: give your AI agent the context the Cypress app shows you

cypress tap is a new set of CLI command to pull Cypress app context into your terminal. It lets AI agent drive a Cypress open session from the terminal, so it can author new tests, extend existing ones, and read failures the way the Cypress app shows them.Read more

Cypress Security Incident: Status and Response

Last updated: August 17, 2026. This page is our central record for this incident and will be updated as our investigation progresses. Security Incident Update: August 17, 2026 As our investigation continues, we are expanding on two parts of our previous  post that have prompted the most questions: what the test data encompasses, and how Cypress records the repository URL associated with your runs. What “test data” encompasses Test data, also referred to as recorded test content, is data as

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Peter Souza

It's time for another Ambassador Spotlight, a series introducing you to the testers, builders, and problem solvers who make up the Cypress community. This is where people in test automation come to share their experience, learn something new, and find others who care about software quality as much as they do. Our Ambassadors are a driving force here, bringing real depth to the craft of testing and championing quality across the applications they build and the teams they work with. Through conten

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Boris Selivanov

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? I see being an Ambassador as the ultimate form of asynchronous collaboration. My goal is to share things that move the needle for other engineers. By comparing how different teams solve the same testing problems, we can turn isolated project victories into shared wins. How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? I'm the person teammates ping when a test goes flaky or they're not sure how to appro

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Read your Cypress Test Replay from the terminal, and hand it to your agent

These days, a lot of your day to day work runs through an AI coding agent. It reads your code, writes and runs your tests, and can gather the metadata around a failed CI run: which tests failed, the error, the stack trace. But the rich detail of what actually happened at the moment a test flaked or failed has stayed with you as a manual process. So you've been the middleman between the full failure context and your agent. You open the Test Replay, reason through what went wrong, and translate i

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Javier Flores

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? I want to help grow a strong, practical testing community around Cypress. I show people working code and let them build confidence by doing. That's the same philosophy behind the bootcamp I run: everyone leaves with their own repo, not just notes. How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? I mentor teammates and collaborate closely with developers and product owners to improve testing practices

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The Electron browser is being deprecated in Cypress

We're deprecating the Electron browser in Cypress, starting in Cypress 16.0.0, with removal in a future major version. After years of seeing inconsistent results between Electron and the browsers people actually use, we are standardizing on installed browsers for more reliable test results.

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75% Less Cypress Bloat in Your Agent's Context Window

Learn how Cypress's output is your agent's context passenger and how we reduced our context footprint by 75% using two existing CLI flags.

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Tatiana Mikhaleva

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? For years, testing was seen as a "bottleneck" or a "necessary evil." Cypress changed that, it made testing feel like development. As the Founder of DevOps.Pink, my mission is to make complex cloud-native tools accessible and approachable. Being a Cypress Ambassador allows me to bridge the gap between Developers and QA, showing that reliable automation isn't about gatekeeping; it's about giving engineers confidence (and their weekends back!). How d

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Anvesh Puli

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? I'm driven by the "build and break" cycle. I want to get my hands dirty with new solutions in testing and automation, but I don't just want to use the tool, I want to help evolve it. What keeps me pushing is the challenge of solving those "unsolvable" community issues and finding workarounds that actually stick. Being an Ambassador isn't just a title for me; it's an invitation to keep challenging myself while making the automation world a little le

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