gsd:pause-work

gsd:pause-work is a command for Claude Code from mrboups/xbrain. It costs 16 tokens per session (245 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gsd:pause-work, MIT.

A work-pausing workflow that records the current phase, completed work, remaining work, decisions, blockers, and instructions for continuing later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a handoff, save the current project state, make a work-in-progress Git commit, and document how to resume.
Why use it?
It prevents lost context when development stops midway through a phase or moves to a fresh working session.

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/mrboups/xbrain/pause-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrboups/xbrain

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 245 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00016 $0.00245
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00122
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00024

Measured yesterday against content hash 1cdefe04af4c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gsd:pause-work 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to gsd:pause-work — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/commands/gsd/pause-work.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Routes to the pause-work workflow which handles:

  • Current phase detection from recent files
  • Complete state gathering (position, completed work, remaining work, decisions, blockers)
  • Handoff file creation with all context sections
  • Git commit as WIP
  • Resume instructions

<execution_context> @D:/VSC/xbrain/.claude/get-shit-done/workflows/pause-work.md </execution_context>

The workflow handles all logic including:

  1. Phase directory detection
  2. State gathering with user clarifications
  3. Handoff file writing with timestamp
  4. Git commit
  5. Confirmation with resume instructions
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 · 39 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 1cdefe04af4c

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gsd:pause-work is a command published in the GitHub repository mrboups/xbrain (2 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 245 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to gsd:pause-work, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.