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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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How to Connect an AI Agent to a Live Cypress Test Session

If you've used Cypress Cloud MCP, you know what it looks like when your agent triages a CI failure on its own: no copy-pasting, no context switching. But what about when you're developing locally? When a test fails in cypress open, your agent is still on the outside. It can't see the runner, the DOM, or what the app looked like when it broke. You're still the one relaying that information. Connecting the Chrome DevTools MCP to your Cypress session changes that. Your agent gets direct access to

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Changes in defense of Cypress Intellectual Property

Changes in defense of Cypress Intellectual Property

💡Please note that we've published a follow on blog post with more details as to why we made the decision described below. Read the newer post here. Starting with version 13 of the Cypress app, Cypress will begin enforcing data recording restrictions that block certain third-party products and services in order to protect our intellectual property. The vast majority of our user base including the broader Cypress ecosystem will see no impact from these changes. Cypress was founded 9 years ago t

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Our year at Cypress, and what’s next for our team

Here are some of the highlights of the past year at Cypress, as well as a sneak peek into what we have planned to make testing even better in 2021.

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Leveling the playing field for a more inclusive developer experience

Cypress as a company represents a lot of things I love about tech—the Test Runner is free and open source, we’re a distributed team, and I get to work with some incredibly smart people to make it easier for people to write and test better software.

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Building a Product Team for Cypress

World-class organizations aren’t found, they’re made.

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Love Cypress? Share your video with the community!

We love the fact that our community is eager to share their experiences using Cypress, and we wanted to see if there was a way to record and share your stories. So we're reaching out to you - to ask you to share a short video of how Cypress has impacted the way you make apps. These video stories will be featured on our blog, shared with the community - and if we get enough of them - put on our website for everyone to see. As a thank you, we'll send you some amazing Cypress swag! Submit Your Vi

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Cypress Case Study: Quizlet

With more than 30 million active users every month, Quizlet is now the world’s largest student and teacher online learning community. It’s used by one in two high school students and one in three college students, so keeping their application up and running smoothly is a top priority. In this case study, we’ll dig into why and how Quizlet now trusts Cypress as their primary end-to-end testing framework. The Problem Quizlet was using Capybara, which is a Ruby layer on Selenium for E2E test

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Cypress Halloween Theme

A good tool can become a great tool when users make it their own through customization. In this blog post I will explain how to customize the Cypress test runner’s appearance through user space color themes. Since it is the season, we have prepared a dark and spooky Halloween color theme that might scare all your bugs away! When Cypress executes your end-to-end tests, the application under test is placed in an iframe element. The tests themselves are placed into another iframe to isolate them f

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