Well, @'ing several people with

?????

isn't the right way to approach this. Especially when no one is obliged to provide you with an answer Have you checked what comes up when you do

Cypress.env("specPattern")

? That will give you a definitive answer as to whether your environment variable is overriding what's in your config file. If it's showing the value set in your config file, rather than your environment variable, then that sounds like a bug. You can raise bugs here: https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues