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.
npx agentmods add commands/christopherkahler/paul/pausegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ChristopherKahler/paulWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00286 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00143 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00003 | $0.00057 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00029 |
Grade A, and why
paul: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 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.
What it actually says
When to use: Before ending a session, switching context, or when context limit is approaching.
<execution_context> @~/.claude/paul-framework/workflows/pause-work.md </execution_context>
@.paul/STATE.md @.paul/PROJECT.md
The workflow handles:
- Detecting current position
- Gathering session context (ask user if needed)
- Creating HANDOFF-{date}.md with populated content
- Updating STATE.md session continuity
- Optional WIP commit
- Confirmation display
If [reason] argument provided, include it in handoff status.
<success_criteria>
- HANDOFF.md created with complete context (no placeholders)
- STATE.md updated with session continuity
- Next action is clear and actionable
- Resume instructions provided </success_criteria>
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 45 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 7135a3eade20
paul:pause is a command published in the GitHub repository ChristopherKahler/paul (1,212 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 286 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.
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