These days, a lot of your day to day work runs through an AI coding agent. It reads your code, writes and runs your tests, and can gather the metadata around a failed CI run: which tests failed, the error, the stack trace.

But the rich detail of what actually happened at the moment a test flaked or failed has stayed with you as a manual process. So you've been the middleman between the full failure context and your agent. You open the Test Replay, reason through what went wrong, and translate i

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Cypress has launched the Cypress Cloud CLI (`cy-cloud`), a terminal tool that exposes Cypress Cloud run data and Test Replay as structured JSON. It lets developers and AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Copilot CLI) programmatically triage failed CI runs by listing failed tests, pulling error details and screenshots, and inspecting the full replay timeline including commands, network requests, and console logs. The CLI caches replay data locally for performance, authenticates once via OAuth or a personal access token, and outputs Zod-compliant JSON that can be piped through `jq` or scripted. It complements Cypress Cloud MCP (for editor agents) and the Data Extract API, and is available on all Cypress Cloud plans including the free tier.

Read your Cypress Test Replay from the terminal, and hand it to your agent

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