stop

A command that stops a running Dash blockchain node and its Docker-based services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Stopping all services, stopping only platform services, waiting for key generation to finish, or forcing a shutdown when necessary.
Why use it?
It provides controlled shutdown options, including waiting for distributed key generation—a process nodes use to create shared keys—so the node is less likely to be penalized.

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/dashpay/platform/stop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dashpay/platform
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 431 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 $0.00000 $0.00431
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00216
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00043

Measured yesterday against content hash e86305b069a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stop 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.

packages/dashmate/docs/commands/stop.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

stop

The stop command shuts down a running Dash node and its associated services.

Usage

dashmate stop [OPTIONS]

Options

Option Description Default
-c, --config=<name> Configuration name to use Uses default config if not specified
-f, --force Force stop even if any service is running or DKG is in progress false
-p, --platform Stop only platform services (not Core) false
-s, --safe Wait for DKG (Distributed Key Generation) to complete before stopping false
-v, --verbose Use verbose mode for output false

Description

This command stops a running Dash node and its associated Docker containers. By default, it stops all services for the node.

If you only want to stop the Platform services while keeping Core running, use the --platform flag.

Normally, the command will stop services immediately. If a Distributed Key Generation (DKG) round is in progress, this could lead to node being banned. Using the --safe flag ensures the command waits for any current DKG round to complete before stopping the node.

The --force flag can be used to forcibly stop services even if there's a DKG in progress or other conditions that would normally prevent shutdown.

Examples

# Stop node with default configuration
dashmate stop

# Stop node with a specific configuration
dashmate stop --config=testnet

# Stop only platform services
dashmate stop --platform

# Safely stop a node, waiting for DKG to complete
dashmate stop --safe

# Force stop a node regardless of conditions
dashmate stop --force
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 · 56 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e86305b069a1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stop is a command published in the GitHub repository dashpay/platform (92 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 431 tokens. 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.