ace:pause-work

A command that prepares a handoff document when you need to pause work on a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect project state, note pending actions, and create instructions for continuing the session.
Why use it?
It records the current phase, completed work, unfinished tasks, and uncommitted changes so work can resume later.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/agricidaniel/ace-claude-code/pause-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/ace-claude-code
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 556 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00012 $0.00556
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00278
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00056

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4ce41e4eba35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ace:pause-work scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.ace/commands/pause-work.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Captures current state and context for the next session.

Check for:

  • Active plan in progress
  • Uncommitted changes

1. Capture Current State

Read STATE.md and determine:

  • Current phase and plan
  • Last completed task
  • Any in-progress work

2. Check for Uncommitted Changes

git status --porcelain

If uncommitted changes exist:

  • List them
  • Ask if they should be committed or stashed

3. Create Continue-Here Document

Write to .ace/planning/.continue-here-{timestamp}.md:

# Continue Here

**Paused:** [YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM]

## Current Position

Phase: [X] of [Y] ([Phase Name])
Plan: [A] of [B]
Task: [Last completed / In progress]

## What Was Happening

[Description of current work state]

## Uncommitted Changes

[List of uncommitted files, if any]

## Next Actions

1. [Immediate next step]
2. [Following step]

## Context Notes

[Any important context for resumption]

## To Resume

Run: /ace:resume-work

4. Update STATE.md

Set:

  • Session continuity: paused
  • Resume file: path to continue-here

5. Git Commit (WIP)

If there's uncommitted planning work:

git add .ace/planning/
git commit -m "wip: [phase-name] paused at task [X]/[Y]

[Brief description]
"

6. Confirmation

+==============================================================+
|                    WORK PAUSED                               |
+==============================================================+

Handoff created: .ace/planning/.continue-here-[timestamp].md

Current State:
  Phase: [X] - [Name]
  Plan: [A] of [B]
  Progress: [##########..........] 50%

To continue later:
  /ace:resume-work

+==============================================================+

<success_criteria>

  • Continue-here document created
  • STATE.md updated with resume file path
  • WIP committed if applicable
  • User informed how to resume </success_criteria>

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 128 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 4ce41e4eba35

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ace:pause-work is a command published in the GitHub repository AgriciDaniel/ace-claude-code (24 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 556 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.