What are Cypress AI Skills?

Cypress AI Skills is a local toolkit that teaches AI tools like Cursor or Claude your project's testing conventions, custom commands, and selectors for generating or reviewing Cypress tests.

How do I install Cypress AI Skills?

Run npx skills add cypress-io/ai-toolkit in your Cypress project. Then use /cypress-author or /cypress-explain in your AI interface.

Will Cypress AI Skills replace my test engineers?

Nah—it supercharges them. Handles boilerplate and reviews, freeing humans for tricky logic and strategy.

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Cypress AI Skills: Finally, AI That Gets Your Test Suite

You're knee-deep in a Cypress suite, AI just dumped a mess of CSS selectors and magic waits. Enter Cypress AI Skills: it turns generic code-gen into codebase-savvy magic.

theAIcatchup Apr 10, 2026 3 min read

Cypress AI Skills generating a clean test using custom commands in a developer IDE

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Cypress AI Skills makes AI generate codebase-aware tests using your custom commands and selectors. 𝕏
Tools like cypress-author and cypress-explain turn flaky AI output into stable, maintainable code. 𝕏
This local, open approach predicts a future where AI slashes test maintenance by 50%. 𝕏

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