Write Cypress Tests in Natural Language with Cy.prompt()

Summary

You've seen the previews. You’ve heard the buzz. And now it’s official: cy.prompt() is live and available to everyone as an experimental feature. Announced live on stage at CypressConf 2025 by founder Brian Mann, cy.prompt()’s entrance into the Cypress API marks a first step into the future of AI-assisted testing.Update: The recording of Brian Mann's CypressConf 2025 talk is now available.VIDEOThe ProblemModern AI has promised to make test automation easier, but until now, the reality has often fell short. Many AI-based testing tools weren’t built with testing in mind. They often guess at app behavior, generate scripts without evaluating them in a live browser, and mask test intent behind opaque layers. This can lead to flakiness, slow execution, and poor debuggability, especially when the AI becomes the judge of correctness instead of the test author. With cy.prompt(), Cypress takes a different approach by putting AI directly into your Cypress workflow in a way that’s fast, reliable, and transparent. Write Tests in Natural Language, in SecondsWith cy.prompt(), you can go from an idea to a running test in seconds by simply describing the user journey in plain language.cy.prompt([ "Visit https://aicotravel.co", "Type 'Paris' in the destination field", "Click on the first search result", "Select 4 days from the duration dropdown", "Press the **Create Itinerary** button" ])Each step is translated into real Cypress commands like cy.visit(), cy.get(), and cy.click(), and executed in the browser with full visibility in the Command Log. This is not just a convenience feature. It is a new way of thinking about test creation that closes the distance between the coverage you need and the code that runs it (without exponentially increasing capacity).Best of all, it is built to be fast, resilient, and responsive to changes in your application. That means you are not paying a big performance penalty for the convenience of natural language. Your tests still run with the speed and...