# Meet cypress tap: give your AI agent the context the Cypress app shows you

DevFeed: [Meet cypress tap: give your AI agent the context the Cypress app shows you](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/meet-cypress-tap-give-your-ai-agent-the-context-the-cypress-app-shows-you-12612.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.cypress.io/blog/cypress-tap-cli/>)

Author: Authoring; Not Just Debugging

Published: 2026-08-18T19:50:51Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Cypress Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cypress-blog.md>)

Topics: [Cypress](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cypress.md>), [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Document Object Model (DOM)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dom.md>), [aria](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aria.md>)

Tags: [ai-agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agent.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [cypress](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cypress.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

Cypress tap is a beta set of CLI commands that lets an AI coding agent drive an already running Cypress open session from the terminal. The agent can run specs, read failures, pin snapshots for time travel, and inspect the application's DOM and accessibility tree while authoring or debugging tests.

## Source excerpt

cypress tap is a new set of CLI command to pull Cypress app context into your terminal. It lets AI agent drive a Cypress open session from the terminal, so it can author new tests, extend existing ones, and read failures the way the Cypress app shows them.