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Cloud MCP: Give Your AI Assistant Access to Your Test Runs

Today, we are releasing the beta of Cloud MCP — a remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects AI coding assistants and AI Agents directly to Cypress Cloud. If you've ever finished a CI run, watched it go red, and then spent the next ten minutes copy-pasting stack traces into a chat window, you know exactly what problem we're solving. We're bridging the context gap in AI-driven development. The context gap slowing down test debugging AI coding assistants have forever changed how Read more
cy.prompt: Natural language testing - now in Beta! npm install cypress

Write Cypress tests in plain English: AI-powered test automation is now in beta

Writing tests has always required a translation step. You know exactly what the test should do. Getting that into code is the part that slows everything down. You stop mid-flow to find the right selector, check whether the element has a stable attribute, write the command, run it, fix it, run it again. By the time the test exists, you have lost the thread of whatever you were actually building. cy.prompt was built to remove that step. Describe what you want in plain English and Cypress handles

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cy.prompt can now wait for network requests

cy.prompt now supports waiting for network requests by referencing aliases you've already defined with cy.intercept. You can keep your test instructions in one place, without breaking out of the prompt block to insert manual waits.

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Cypress Studio AI — A new era of test generation. Now in Beta!

Introducing Studio AI: Stronger Validation, Less Friction

A passing test run does not always equal release confidence. Confidence comes from knowing your tests validate what users actually experience. Not just that a flow executed, but that the UI state changed appropriately, the right text appeared, and element visibility updated as expected. This is where friction shows up. After every meaningful interaction in a test, there's a decision to make. What changed? What should be verified? Those decisions take time. Under pressure, it's easy to write t

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How cy.prompt generates cy.contains, cy.press, and handles sensitive data

cy.prompt now supports text-based targeting via cy.contains, keyboard interactions through cy.press, and non-existence assertions using visible content. This post covers what changed and how sensitive data in the DOM is handled automatically.

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Fix Cypress CI failures caused by no spec files found

Stop Cypress from failing your CI build when no spec files are found. Learn when to use --pass-with-no-tests, when to leave it off, and what else shipped in 15.11.0.

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Environment Variable Access in Cypress v15.10.0+: Migrating to cy.env() and Cypress.expose()

Starting in Cypress 15.10.0, Cypress.env() is deprecated and will be removed in Cypress 16.0.0.  This change is driven by the way Cypress.env() hydrates all Cypress environment values into the browser context, including values a test may never read. This makes it easy to unintentionally expose more data than intended.  We have not seen reports of this being exploited, but we are implementing this deprecation (and future removal) to move Cypress toward safer defaults and more explicit control o

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What’s new in cy.prompt for AI testing in Cypress

We’ve made a series of focused updates to cy.prompt based on how teams are using AI in real Cypress test suites. Learn what’s new, why it matters for reliability and readability, and what improvements are coming next.

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Illustration of Cypress Accessibility in Cypress Cloud, showing accessibility violations on the left and a live HTML snapshot on the right with elements highlighted

What's new in Cypress Accessibility?

Over the last year, we've delivered some of the most requested features by current Cypress Accessibility customers, and extended the range of use cases and environments we support. If you're not familiar with Cypress Accessibility, here's the three things you need to know: 1. Automated test runs you record to Cypress Cloud can generate page- or component-level accessibility reports based on everything that happened in your tests, including all steps of all user journeys. 2. It supports compa

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Self-healing tests with Cypress AI

AI self-healing in Cypress: reliable tests with full visibility

cy.prompt brings transparent self-healing to Cypress tests, adapting to UI changes while showing exactly what healed and why. Get clear logs, reliable tests, and the option to generate code once and commit it for full control in CI.

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