# cypress-io/cypress — health index 85/100 (Excellent)

> Inspection of the public repository cypress-io/cypress by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 85 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. The index is a signal derived from publicly visible practice, not a warranty, a security audit, or an endorsement, and it is independent of payment.

- Repository: https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/cypress-io/cypress
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/cypress-io/cypress/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/c/cypress-io/cypress.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-19
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.14.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 100/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 96/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 80/100 | Good |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 85/100 | Excellent |
| Security | 16% | 58/100 | Moderate |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 79/100 | Good |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. |
| Homepage | https://cypress.io |
| Primary language | TypeScript |
| License | MIT |
| Stars | 50,607 |
| Forks | 3,504 |
| Created | 2015-03-04 |
| Last push | 2026-07-19 |
| Latest release | v15.18.1 |
| Commits (last year) | 1,409 |
| Bus factor | 3 |
| Topics | cypress, end-to-end-testing, angular-testing-library, component-testing, cypress-cloud, cypress-schematic, react-testing-library, svelte-testing-library, testing-framework, testing-library, testing-tool, vue-testing-library, test-replay |

## Vitality — 100/100 (Excellent)

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping? Weight: 22% of the overall index.

### Development activity — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | met | 36 / 36 | 52/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 1409 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 22 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |

### Release discipline — 100/100 (Excellent)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 100 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 11 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~11.7 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 10 | no releases found |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | maintenance record not established from the collected data |

## Community & Adoption — 96/100 (Excellent)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 18% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 50,607 stars |
| Forks | met | 25 / 25 | 3,504 forks |
| Watchers | met | 15 / 15 | 625 watchers |

### Community health — 92/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (MIT) |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 80/100 (Good)

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep? Weight: 24% of the overall index.

### Maintainer resilience (bus factor) — 74/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 36 / 54 | 3 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 14.8 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 34% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 100 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 34 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 89/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 43.6 / 46.8 | 93% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 31.6 / 38.2 | 8622/10446 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | partial | 13.5 / 15 | Found 25/26 approved changesets -- score normalized to 9 |

### Ownership & stewardship — 78/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 23.5 / 25 | 1,842 followers of cypress-io |
| Track record | met | 25 / 25 | 219 public repos, account ~11 yr old |

## Engineering Quality — 85/100 (Excellent)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 20% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 82/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 12 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .eslintrc, .eslintrc.js, .eslintrc.json |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | not met | 0 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | partial | 18 / 20 | 27 out of 29 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9 |

### Documentation — 90/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | met | 25 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://cypress.io |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 13 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 58/100 (Moderate)

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, with no malicious dependency and no unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure? Weight: 16% of the overall index.

### Security posture — 58/100 (Moderate)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Packaging, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | no binaries found in the repo |
| Branch-Protection | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | internal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: some github tokens can't read classic branch protection rules: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/blob/main/docs/authentication/fine-grained-auth-token.md |
| CI-Tests | partial | 2.2 / 2.5 | 27 out of 29 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9 |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | partial | 6.8 / 7.5 | Found 25/26 approved changesets -- score normalized to 9 |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 34 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | not met | 0 / 10 | dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | update tool detected |
| Fuzzing | not met | 0 / 5 | project is not fuzzed |
| License | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 30 commit(s) and 22 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | excluded | 0 / 5 | packaging workflow not detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 3 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 6 |
| SAST | met | 5 / 5 | SAST tool detected |
| Security-Policy | met | 5 / 5 | security policy file detected |
| Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | no releases found |
| Token-Permissions | not met | 0 / 7.5 | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| Vulnerabilities | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 367 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### High-Risk Jurisdiction Exposure — 100/100 (Excellent)

Only high-confidence self-published location evidence affects this multiplier. Ambiguous matches are review-only; country evidence is not proof of nationality, citizenship, legal registration, malicious intent, or sanctions status.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Policy exposure multiplier | met | 100 / 100 | no confirmed policy-scope location match |

## AI Readiness — 79/100 (Good)

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? An independent, experimental badge — weight 0.0, so it is surfaced on its own and does not affect the overall health score.

### Agent context & guidance — 75/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Legible commit history. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | met | 45 / 45 | .circleci/AGENTS.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, cli/AGENTS.md, cli/CLAUDE.md, npm/AGENTS.md, npm/CLAUDE.md, npm/angular-zoneless/AGENTS.md, npm/angular-zoneless/CLAUDE.md, npm/angular/AGENTS.md, npm/angular/CLAUDE.md, npm/cypress-schematic/AGENTS.md, npm/cypress-schematic/CLAUDE.md, npm/eslint-plugin-dev/AGENTS.md, npm/eslint-plugin-dev/CLAUDE.md, npm/grep/AGENTS.md, npm/grep/CLAUDE.md, npm/mount-utils/AGENTS.md, npm/mount-utils/CLAUDE.md, npm/puppeteer/AGENTS.md, npm/puppeteer/CLAUDE.md, npm/react/AGENTS.md, npm/react/CLAUDE.md, npm/svelte/AGENTS.md, npm/svelte/CLAUDE.md, npm/vite-dev-server/AGENTS.md, npm/vite-dev-server/CLAUDE.md, npm/vite-plugin-cypress-esm/AGENTS.md, npm/vite-plugin-cypress-esm/CLAUDE.md, npm/vue/AGENTS.md, npm/vue/CLAUDE.md, npm/webpack-batteries-included-preprocessor/AGENTS.md, npm/webpack-batteries-included-preprocessor/CLAUDE.md, npm/webpack-dev-server/AGENTS.md, npm/webpack-dev-server/CLAUDE.md, npm/webpack-preprocessor/AGENTS.md, npm/webpack-preprocessor/CLAUDE.md, packages/AGENTS.md, packages/CLAUDE.md, packages/app/AGENTS.md, packages/app/CLAUDE.md, packages/config/AGENTS.md, packages/config/CLAUDE.md, packages/data-context/AGENTS.md, packages/data-context/CLAUDE.md, packages/driver/AGENTS.md, packages/driver/CLAUDE.md, packages/electron/AGENTS.md, packages/electron/CLAUDE.md, packages/errors/AGENTS.md, packages/errors/CLAUDE.md, packages/eslint-config/AGENTS.md, packages/eslint-config/CLAUDE.md, packages/example/AGENTS.md, packages/example/CLAUDE.md, packages/extension/AGENTS.md, packages/extension/CLAUDE.md, packages/frontend-shared/AGENTS.md, packages/frontend-shared/CLAUDE.md, packages/https-proxy/AGENTS.md, packages/https-proxy/CLAUDE.md, packages/icons/AGENTS.md, packages/icons/CLAUDE.md, packages/launcher/AGENTS.md, packages/launcher/CLAUDE.md, packages/launchpad/AGENTS.md, packages/launchpad/CLAUDE.md, packages/net-stubbing/AGENTS.md, packages/net-stubbing/CLAUDE.md, packages/network-tools/AGENTS.md, packages/network-tools/CLAUDE.md, packages/network/AGENTS.md, packages/network/CLAUDE.md, packages/packherd-require/AGENTS.md, packages/packherd-require/CLAUDE.md, packages/proxy/AGENTS.md, packages/proxy/CLAUDE.md, packages/reporter/AGENTS.md, packages/reporter/CLAUDE.md, packages/resolve-dist/AGENTS.md, packages/resolve-dist/CLAUDE.md, packages/rewriter/AGENTS.md, packages/rewriter/CLAUDE.md, packages/root/AGENTS.md, packages/root/CLAUDE.md, packages/runner/AGENTS.md, packages/runner/CLAUDE.md, packages/scaffold-config/AGENTS.md, packages/scaffold-config/CLAUDE.md, packages/server/AGENTS.md, packages/server/CLAUDE.md, packages/socket/AGENTS.md, packages/socket/CLAUDE.md, packages/stderr-filtering/AGENTS.md, packages/stderr-filtering/CLAUDE.md, packages/telemetry/AGENTS.md, packages/telemetry/CLAUDE.md, packages/ts/AGENTS.md, packages/ts/CLAUDE.md, packages/types/AGENTS.md, packages/types/CLAUDE.md, packages/v8-snapshot-require/AGENTS.md, packages/v8-snapshot-require/CLAUDE.md, packages/web-config/AGENTS.md, packages/web-config/CLAUDE.md, scripts/AGENTS.md, scripts/CLAUDE.md, system-tests/AGENTS.md, system-tests/CLAUDE.md, tooling/AGENTS.md, tooling/CLAUDE.md, tooling/electron-mksnapshot/AGENTS.md, tooling/electron-mksnapshot/CLAUDE.md, tooling/packherd/AGENTS.md, tooling/packherd/CLAUDE.md, tooling/v8-snapshot/AGENTS.md, tooling/v8-snapshot/CLAUDE.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 73/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Demonstrated agent practice, Automated maintenance. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | not met | 0 / 18 | — |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .eslintrc, .eslintrc.js, .eslintrc.json |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | cli/scripts/tsconfig.json, cli/test/tsconfig.json, cli/tsconfig.json, cli/types/tsconfig.json, jsconfig.json, npm/angular-zoneless/tsconfig.json, npm/angular/tsconfig.json, npm/cypress-schematic/tsconfig.json, npm/grep/cypress/tsconfig.json, npm/grep/tsconfig.json, npm/mount-utils/tsconfig.json, npm/puppeteer/cypress/tsconfig.json, npm/puppeteer/test/tsconfig.json, npm/puppeteer/tsconfig.json, npm/react/cypress/tsconfig.json, npm/react/tsconfig.json, npm/svelte/tsconfig.json, npm/vite-dev-server/tsconfig.json, npm/vite-plugin-cypress-esm/tsconfig.json, npm/vue/test-tsd/tsconfig.json, npm/vue/tsconfig.json, npm/webpack-batteries-included-preprocessor/test/fixtures/esmoduleinterop-true/tsconfig.json, npm/webpack-batteries-included-preprocessor/test/fixtures/paths-no-baseurl/tsconfig.json, npm/webpack-batteries-included-preprocessor/test/fixtures/tsconfig.json, npm/webpack-batteries-included-preprocessor/tsconfig.json, npm/webpack-dev-server/tsconfig.json, npm/webpack-preprocessor/tsconfig.json, packages/app/tsconfig.json, packages/config/tsconfig.json, packages/data-context/tsconfig.json, packages/driver/cypress/tsconfig.json, packages/driver/tsconfig.json, packages/electron/tsconfig.json, packages/errors/tsconfig.json, packages/eslint-config/tsconfig.json, packages/extension/tsconfig.json, packages/frontend-shared/tsconfig.json, packages/https-proxy/tsconfig.json, packages/icons/tsconfig.json, packages/launcher/tsconfig.json, packages/launchpad/tsconfig.json, packages/net-stubbing/tsconfig.json, packages/network-interception/tsconfig.json, packages/network-tools/tsconfig.json, packages/network/tsconfig.json, packages/packherd-require/tsconfig.json, packages/proxy/tsconfig.json, packages/reporter/tsconfig.json, packages/resolve-dist/tsconfig.json, packages/rewriter/tsconfig.json, packages/root/tsconfig.json, packages/runner/tsconfig.json, packages/scaffold-config/tsconfig.json, packages/server/tsconfig.json, packages/socket/tsconfig.json, packages/stderr-filtering/tsconfig.json, packages/telemetry/tsconfig.json, packages/ts/tsconfig.json, packages/types/tsconfig.json, packages/v8-snapshot-require/tsconfig.json, packages/web-config/tsconfig.json, scripts/gulp/tsconfig.json, system-tests/project-fixtures/angular/tsconfig.json, system-tests/project-fixtures/runner-specs/tsconfig.json, system-tests/project-fixtures/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/allow-cypress-env/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/angular-20/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/angular-21/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/angular-cli-configured/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/angular-cli-unconfigured/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/angular-signals/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/bun-component-testing/cypress/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/bun-component-testing/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/coffee-react-interop/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/config-cjs-and-esm/config-node-next/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/config-cjs-and-esm/config-with-cjs-tsconfig-es2015/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/config-cjs-and-esm/config-with-js-tsconfig-es2015/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/config-cjs-and-esm/config-with-mjs-tsconfig-es2015/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/config-cjs-and-esm/config-with-module-resolution-bundler/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/config-cjs-and-esm/config-with-ts-extends/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/config-cjs-and-esm/config-with-ts-module-and-esbuild/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/config-cjs-and-esm/config-with-ts-module-component/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/config-cjs-and-esm/config-with-ts-module/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/config-cjs-and-esm/config-with-ts-tsconfig-es2015/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/cypress-expose/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/downloads/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/dts-files-only/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/e2e/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/expose-test-config-overrides/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/next-14-tsconfig-tailwind/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/next-15-tsconfig-tailwind/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/next-16-tsconfig-tailwind/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/nextjs-configured/jsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/nextjs-unconfigured/jsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/no-specs-vue/cypress/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/no-specs-vue/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/pristine-npm/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/protocol/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/react-vite-ts-configured/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/react-vite-ts-unconfigured/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/remote-debugging-disconnect/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/run-all-specs-ct-vite/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/run-all-specs/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/svelte-vite-configured/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/svelte-vite-unconfigured/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/svelte-webpack-configured/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/svelte-webpack-unconfigured/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/ts-proj-5/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/ts-proj-6/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/ts-proj-7/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/ts-proj-custom-names/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/ts-proj-esmoduleinterop-true/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/ts-proj-tsconfig-in-cypress/cypress/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/ts-proj-tsconfig-in-plugins/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/ts-proj-with-module-esnext/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/ts-proj-with-paths/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/ts-proj/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/vite-ct-function-api/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/vite-ct-object-api/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/vite7-inspect/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/vite7.0.0-react/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/vite8-inspect/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/vite8.0.0-react/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/vue3-vite-ts-configured/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/vue3-vite-ts-custom-index-html/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/vue3-vite-ts-unconfigured/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/vue3-webpack-ts-configured/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/vue3-webpack-ts-unconfigured/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/webpack-dev-server-ts/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/webpack-preprocessor-ts-loader-compiler-options/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/webpack-preprocessor-ts-loader/tsconfig.json, system-tests/projects/yarn-v3.1.1-pnp/tsconfig.json, system-tests/tsconfig.json, tooling/electron-mksnapshot/tsconfig.json, tooling/packherd/tsconfig.json, tooling/v8-snapshot/tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | Dockerfile, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | excluded | 0 / 8 | no data |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 6 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 6 |

### Code legibility for models — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | TypeScript (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.6 / 55 | 29/4486 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 80/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | met | 40 / 40 | packages/data-context/schemas/cloud.graphql, packages/data-context/schemas/schema.graphql |
| MCP server | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | example, examples |

## Collection warnings

- Resolved dependency list truncated to 2000 of 7628 packages (counts remain complete)

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