zenpause

zenpause is a command for Claude Code from Fredje777/claude-zenvibe. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,023 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session handoff command that saves the current coding work and records its state in a journal file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to commit and push suitable changes, write a detailed entry in docs/JOURNAL.md, and mark issues to review when you resume.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of losing track of completed work, unfinished changes, decisions, and questions when you step away for a long time.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the zenvibe plugin — 3 commands, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to commit and push suitable changes, write a detailed entry in docs/JOURNAL.md, and mark issues to review when you resume.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/fredje777/claude-zenvibe/zenpause
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Fredje777/claude-zenvibe

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install zenvibe, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 commands, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 66 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,023 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00066 $0.01023
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00511
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00102

Measured 9d ago against content hash 919ef3ce85fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zenpause 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 9d 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.

commands/zenpause.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You produce a complete handoff so the user (or yourself) can resume cleanly hours later.

Output language: Default to English. If CLAUDE.md exists at the project root and is written in French, OR if the existing journal (docs/JOURNAL.md or JOURNAL.md) contains French entries, write your output (confirmation message, new journal entry) in French. Otherwise English. Detect once and stay consistent across the whole skill execution.

Workflow

0. Verify the working directory is a git repo

Run git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree. If it fails, the project is not under git: skip step 1 and the "Git" section of step 3, write only the journal entry, and mention in the confirmation that no git checkpoint was made.

1. Commit + push everything committable

  • Run git status and git diff --stat to see what changed.
  • Run git log -10 --oneline to learn the project's commit message convention.
  • For each modified file: if it is in a clean, working state, include it in the commit. If it is clearly WIP or half-written (broken syntax, stub functions, partial refactor), do not commit it — flag it in step 3 instead.
  • Stage the clean files and commit with a message that summarizes what was actually done this session, not "WIP".
  • If a remote is configured, run git push. If push fails for a missing upstream, set it (git push -u origin <branch>) and retry. Never use --force or --no-verify.

2. Locate (or create) the journal

Look for the journal in this order:

  1. docs/JOURNAL.md
  2. JOURNAL.md at the repo root
  3. If neither exists, create docs/JOURNAL.md (run mkdir -p docs first).

3. Prepend a new entry to the journal

The newest entry goes at the top of the file. Use this structure (translate headings to French if the project is in French):

## YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM — Pause

> Pause note: <text passed as argument, if any>

### Completed tasks (current iteration)
- ...

### Current task
- ... (precise state: what is done, what remains on this task)

### Remaining tasks (in order)
1. ...
2. ...

### Technical decisions made this session
- ...

### Open questions
- ...

### Git
- Branch: <branch>
- Last commit: <short sha> <message>

### Attention points for the resume
- (optional — refactors to do, uncommitted WIP files, tests to write, code smells)

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 9d ago First seen · 94 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 919ef3ce85fc

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zenpause is a command published in the GitHub repository Fredje777/claude-zenvibe (2 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,023 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.