cypress-docs
Cypress Documentation
Purpose
Enable the agent to retrieve accurate, up-to-date, and verifiable information about the Cypress testing framework by prioritizing official documentation and structured sources.
When to use
Apply this skill whenever the task depends on finding, reading, or quoting Cypress documentation rather than general testing intuition:
- Look up facts: commands, APIs, assertions, lifecycle hooks, configuration options, environment variables, CLI flags, plugins, or TypeScript types as documented by Cypress.
- Confirm behavior: how something works in a given Cypress version, E2E vs component testing differences, browser support, or networking/cy.intercept semantics.
- Before asserting “Cypress can/cannot…”: search docs first; do not rely on memory for exact signatures, defaults, or deprecated APIs.
- Extract structured content: follow the LLM-optimized docs strategy below (
llms.txt,/llm/*) when fetching or summarizing doc pages. - Ground answers for others: when explaining Cypress to a user, writing examples, or reviewing code where correctness must match official docs.
If the user only needs writing or fixing tests without a documentation lookup, prefer cypress-author; if they only need test explanation without fetching docs, prefer cypress-explain. Use this skill when official documentation is the source of truth.
Source Prioritization
More from cypress-io/ai-toolkit
cypress-author
Creates, updates, and fixes Cypress tests (E2E/end-to-end and component tests). Use when the user asks to create tests, add tests, write tests, update tests, test this file/component, new spec, or fix a failing or flaky test. Apply even when the user does not say 'Cypress' (e.g. 'create tests for this file'). Prefer cypress-explain when the user only wants to explain or review tests without changing code.
551cypress-explain
Explains Cypress tests (E2E and component tests), and answers questions about Cypress use and behavior. Use when the user asks to explain how a test works, explain how Cypress works, review or critique a test without writing code. Apply even when the user does not say 'Cypress' (e.g. 'explain this test'). Prefer the cypress-author skill when the user wants to create, fix, or update tests.
436