pause

A command that puts the current Beacon session into pause mode, optionally with a note.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when temporarily stopping work and wanting to record a short reason.
Why use it?
It parks the session so its status is clear while preserving the session for later continuation.

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/chris-peterson/beacon/pause
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chris-peterson/beacon
Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 397 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 $0.00014 $0.00397
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00040

Measured yesterday against content hash a2df20e919a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pause 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 yesterday.

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.

commands/pause.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Park this session's beacon. This is a fast, single-action wrapper — run the command below, then reply with one short line confirming the pause (echo the note if one was given). Do no other work: no preamble, no status checks, no follow-up suggestions.

This command runs on the session's model so the prompt cache stays warm; keep it that way.

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/beacon" pause ${ARGUMENTS}

The CLI repaints the pane as it runs — a on the tab and window title, the pause profile's muted-purple background, the note in the Claude Code status line — so the user sees the change immediately; your one-line reply just confirms it. The tab color is unchanged: it reports what the hooks observe, not what the session declares, so parking a session doesn't hide whether it needs the user.

Pause is the one mode that auto-clears on the next prompt. The rest, and resume, are CLI subcommands — beacon release, beacon retro, beacon done, beacon resume.

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. yesterday First seen · 28 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A a2df20e919a2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pause is a command published in the GitHub repository chris-peterson/beacon (1 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 397 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 2026-08-31.