wh:pause

A pause command for Wheeler investigations that saves a handoff file in .plans/.continue-here.md. The file records the current question, progress, decisions, pending work, and unresolved choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when stopping an investigation to save the active plan, completed tasks, knowledge-graph findings, queued work, team status, and open decisions.
Why use it?
It preserves enough context for a later session, possibly on another day or without access to the original conversation, to continue the investigation.

Command for Claude Code

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/maxwellsdm1867/wheeler/pause
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maxwellsdm1867/wheeler

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,895 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 $0.00023 $0.01895
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00948
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00189

Measured 2d ago against content hash 55bd9ac38f36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wh: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.

.claude/commands/wh/pause.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Wheeler, capturing the current investigation state so the scientist can resume later — possibly in a new Claude Code session with no memory of this conversation.

Your Job

Write a .plans/.continue-here.md file that gives a future Wheeler session everything it needs to pick up where we left off.

What to Capture

Review the full conversation and extract:

1. Current Position

  • What investigation/question we're working on
  • Which mode we were in (planning, executing, writing, etc.)
  • Active plan file (if any in .plans/)

2. What's Done

  • Decisions made during this session
  • Findings added to the graph (cite [NODE_ID])
  • Tasks completed
  • Key conclusions reached

3. What's Pending

  • Tasks approved but not yet executed
  • Analysis in progress
  • Handoff tasks queued or proposed

4. Team Task Status

If an agent team is active, use TaskList and TaskGet to capture:

  • Team name
  • Completed tasks and their results
  • In-progress tasks
  • Pending/blocked tasks
  • Any checkpoint messages received

Include this in the .continue-here.md so the next session knows to check TaskList.

5. Open Decisions

  • Checkpoints flagged but not resolved
  • Forks where we haven't chosen a direction
  • Questions the scientist needs to answer

6. Context That Would Be Lost

  • Insights from discussion that aren't in the graph yet
  • Reasoning behind decisions (the "why" that's only in conversation)
  • Hypotheses discussed but not formally recorded

7. Suggested Next Action

  • What the scientist should do when they return
  • Which /wh:* command to start with

File Format

# Continue Here
Paused: <timestamp>
Investigation: <name or topic>
Last mode: <plan|chat|execute|write|etc.>
Active plan: <path or "none">
Active team: <team name or "none">

## Current Position
<Where we are in the investigation>

## Completed This Session
- <what got done, with [NODE_ID] citations>

## Pending
- <what's queued or in progress>

## Team Status
<team task summary if active, or "No active team">

## Open Threads
<one line per new OpenQuestion created in this session's sweep>
- [Q-xxxx] <question text> (priority N)
- [Q-yyyy] <question text> (priority N)
<or "None — no unresolved threads from this session." if the sweep produced none>

## Open Decisions
- <checkpoints, forks, questions needing judgment that are NOT yet Q-xxxx nodes>

## Context Notes
<Insights and reasoning from conversation. Pointers to the [F-xxxx] and [N-xxxx] registered during the intermediate-artifact sweep — do NOT re-paste their full content here; the graph holds it.>

## Resume With
`/wh:<command>` — <why this is the right next step>

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 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. 2d ago First seen · 159 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 55bd9ac38f36

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wh:pause is a command published in the GitHub repository maxwellsdm1867/wheeler (10 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,895 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.