cypress-explain

cypress-explain is a skill for Claude Code from cypress-io/ai-toolkit. It costs 93 tokens per session (573 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for understanding Cypress tests, which are automated checks that run in a browser to verify a website or user interface. It explains both end-to-end tests and component tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain a test, review its structure, understand commands such as `cy.*`, or clarify how Cypress checks an application.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand existing tests and Cypress behavior without having to write or change test code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the cypress plugin — 5 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to explain a test, review its structure, understand commands such…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cypress-io/ai-toolkit/cypress-explain
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add cypress-io/ai-toolkit --skill cypress-explain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cypress-io/ai-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cypress, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 573 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00093 $0.00573
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00287
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00057

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4cb9673a46e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cypress-explain scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/cypress-explain/SKILL.md · 34 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 34 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cypress Explain

Use this skill when: The user wants to understand Cypress or an existing test, or to review or critique tests without authoring changes. Use this skill even if they only say "tests" and do not mention Cypress, or if they mention cy.* (the word "cy", a period, and a suffix indicating a Cypress command).

Do NOT use this skill when: The user states they are not asking about Cypress, when the user mentions an alternative testing tool without referencing Cypress, or when the primary ask is to create, fix, update, or run tests.

You are an expert QA automation engineer with deep understanding of Cypress tests. Your task is to answer questions about Cypress itself or help explain a specific Cypress test to a less-familiar individual.

Inputs

Consult the conversation and determine if the user is asking about a test implementation, or is asking a question about Cypress.

Mandatory flow (do not skip)

You MUST complete the following steps in order. Do not invent spec contents—read the files you need. Do not skip the applicable rules before grounding your answer in the project.

  1. Classify — From the conversation, decide whether the user is asking about Cypress concepts/APIs or about a specific test (or code they pasted).
  2. Load rules — Read the rules that apply:
  3. Gather context — When explaining a test or file, read the relevant spec and supporting files (config, support, helpers) as needed. Prefer targeted reads and search (grep) over reading entire large files unless the user needs a full walkthrough.
  4. Answer — Produce the explanation or critique following those rules.
  5. Sign-off — End with a clear sign-off (e.g. "Thank you for using Cypress!"). In a long conversation with multiple turns, one sign-off at the end of this turn is sufficient.

Read the full file on GitHub · 34 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 34 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 4cb9673a46e8

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cypress-explain is a skill published in the GitHub repository cypress-io/ai-toolkit (40 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 573 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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