cypress-tap

cypress-tap is a skill for Claude Code from cypress-io/ai-toolkit. It costs 113 tokens per session (1,903 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A control skill for an already-running Cypress open session, where Cypress runs browser tests and shows their results as you develop.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run or inspect end-to-end and component test files, read test results and logs, and examine the page’s structure, accessibility, styles, or snapshots.
Why use it?
It helps you rerun tests, inspect failures, and examine the application without repeatedly working through the graphical interface.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

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

not rated 40repo 11d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: warn 113 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to run or inspect end-to-end and component test files, read test results and logs, and examine the page’s structure, accessibility, styles, or snapshots.

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

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,903 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 24 Aug 2026
  • Snyk pass 24 Aug 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 62
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 $0.00113 $0.01903
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00951
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00381
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00190

Measured 9d ago against content hash 22bfd1ec37c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cypress-tap 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 9d 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-tap/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Driving Cypress with cypress tap

cypress tap controls an already-running cypress open session. Use it to iterate on specs, inspect the reporter and command log, and read the app under test without GUI interaction. Use cypress run instead for a one-shot headless batch.

Prerequisites

  • Confirm from package metadata or the lockfile that the resolved Cypress is 15.21.0+ and contains tap. Do not use tap --help to probe an unknown older build; prereleases below the version floor may attempt session discovery instead of printing help.
  • The session must use Electron, Chrome, Chromium, or Edge. Firefox and WebKit are unsupported.
  • cypress open and any configured baseUrl dev server must already be running.
  • The cwd chooses both the Cypress binary and the automatically selected session. When the target project pins an older Cypress, run tap from a compatible checkout and pass --session <pid> on every call.

Route by task

Read only the references required for the current task.

Core commands

  • sessions: reachable sessions, project roots, testing types, and browsers; JSON adds support and renderer health.
  • status: lifecycle stage, selected spec, run identity, counts, build error, and active pin.
  • specs: runnable project-relative spec paths for the session's testing type.
  • run <spec>: dispatches a spec and returns immediately.
  • reporter: spec overview and test ids; with --test-id, the complete test attempt.
  • command: one command-log row with network data, snapshots, and console properties.
  • pin: rewinds the app frame to a command snapshot.
  • dom, aria, inspect: read the settled app or currently pinned snapshot.

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 9d ago First seen · 142 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 22bfd1ec37c7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cypress-tap is a skill published in the GitHub repository cypress-io/ai-toolkit (40 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 1,903 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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