pause

A command for Crabbox, a tool that manages remote computing environments called leases. It pauses one lease, freeing its CPU and memory while keeping its saved state for later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pause a named or identified remote environment, then bring it back later with the resume command.
Why use it?
It reduces resource use without losing the environment's current state. Only supported cloud providers can pause leases.

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/openclaw/crabbox/pause
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openclaw/crabbox
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 354 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 $0.00354
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00177
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00035

Measured yesterday against content hash d419ae3c34de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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.

docs/commands/pause.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

pause

crabbox pause pauses a single lease, freeing the remote compute while preserving the sandbox's state, so it can be brought back later with resume. It is provider-dependent: only providers whose backend implements the pausable capability accept it; others return provider=<name> does not support pause.

crabbox pause swift-crab
crabbox pause --id isb_crabbox-repo-0a1b2c
crabbox pause --provider islo swift-crab
crabbox pause --provider codesandbox web-box

Identifying the lease

Pass the lease as a positional argument or with --id; both accept the canonical ID or an active friendly slug (see Identifiers). Supplying both --id and a positional argument, or more than one positional argument, is an error. The local claim is kept so the lease can be resumed.

Provider support

  • islo — snapshots the sandbox to disk and frees its CPU/memory via the Islo pause API; resume restores it. Accepts an isb_... ID, a Crabbox-created sandbox name, or a local slug.
  • codesandbox — hibernates the CodeSandbox sandbox through the SDK bridge and keeps the csbx_... local claim so it can be resumed or stopped later.

Run crabbox providers for the providers available in your build.

See also

  • resume — resume a paused lease.
  • stop — tear a lease down entirely.
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 · 38 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d419ae3c34de

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pause is a command published in the GitHub repository openclaw/crabbox (1,343 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 354 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.