pause

pause is a command for Claude Code from Everyone-Needs-A-Copilot/claude-copilot. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,189 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that saves a named checkpoint of unfinished work so it can be resumed later, including after switching to another task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pause active work, record why it was paused, and let a later continue command find the relevant checkpoint first.
Why use it?
It preserves the current task's context and gives the checkpoint a reason or name, making it easier to return without reconstructing what was in progress.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Part of the claude-copilot plugin — 72 skills, 17 commands, 17 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/everyone-needs-a-copilot/claude-copilot/pause
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Everyone-Needs-A-Copilot/claude-copilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-copilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 72 skills, 17 commands, 17 agents, 4 hooks.

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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 1,189 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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.01189
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00594
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00119

Measured yesterday against content hash 5f4ea43edec1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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.

.claude/commands/pause.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pause Current Work

Create a named checkpoint of current work to enable easy resumption later.

Command Argument Handling

This command supports an optional pause reason/name:

Usage:

  • /pause - Pause with auto-generated name
  • /pause "switching to urgent bug" - Pause with custom reason
  • /pause working on feature X, need to context switch - Pause with description

What This Does

This command creates explicit pause checkpoints for all in-progress tasks, making it easy to resume exactly where you left off even after working on other initiatives.

Key differences from regular checkpoints:

  • Explicit intent: User-initiated pause vs automatic checkpoints
  • Extended expiry: Manual checkpoints last longer than auto-checkpoints
  • Named/contextualized: Optional reason helps recall context when resuming
  • Resume priority: /continue checks pause checkpoints first

Step 1: Recall Working Context

# Recall recent working context (the legacy initiative subsystem is replaced by
# file-based memory; type:context entries also surface at next session start).
cc memory search "current focus" 2>/dev/null

# Active work itself lives in Task Copilot. If Step 2 finds no in-progress tasks,
# respond: "No in-progress tasks to pause. Start work with /protocol first."

Step 1A: Preserve an Active Journey First

If the current protocol flow has an active journey run_id, preserve its exact next-stage capsule before changing generic task status:

cc journey pause --run <active-run-id> --json

Treat a missing, malformed, or rejected response as a hard stop: do not mark the generic task paused while its journey capsule is unproven. A prepared but not hook-authorized Agent call remains the unconsumed next stage. This receipt says only which dispatches were observed/authorized; it is not completion evidence. Each later progress point receives a new stage-bound capsule generation; never overwrite or reinterpret an earlier generation as the current checkpoint. When no active journey exists, continue unchanged with Step 2.

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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. yesterday First seen · 164 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5f4ea43edec1

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pause is a command published in the GitHub repository Everyone-Needs-A-Copilot/claude-copilot (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,189 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 2026-09-04.