Cypress Expert Skill

Quick Reference

When to use this skill:

• Writing or fixing Cypress E2E or component tests
• Setting up Cypress in a new project
• Debugging flaky tests
• Adding network stubbing / API mocking
• Configuring CI pipelines for Cypress
• Implementing auth patterns (cy.session)
• Building Page Object Model architecture

Quick start:

1. npm install --save-dev cypress — install
2. npx cypress open — interactive mode (first run generates config)
3. npx cypress run — headless CI mode
4. Read full references in {baseDir}/references/ for deep patterns