design-engineer:stop

A command for saving current progress and pausing a design-engineering activity. It records unfinished work so the activity can be resumed later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pause mid-task, save draft deliverables, record what remains, and continue later.
Why use it?
It prevents partial work and the current phase from being lost when you need to stop before completing an activity.

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/volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin/stop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin
Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 598 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 $0.00044 $0.00598
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00299
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00060

Measured 2d ago against content hash d455068e9640, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-engineer:stop 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.

commands/stop.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Stop and save progress

Spacer rule (per CLAUDE.md rule #6): Before every AskUserQuestion tool call this command makes, end the preceding chat message with the canonical 3-horizontal-rule spacer (three lines of characters).

What this command does

This is an optional safety net for pausing mid-activity. If you've completed a full activity (problem statement, assumptions, etc.), your progress is already saved automatically. Use /design-engineer:stop when you're in the middle of an activity and want to pause cleanly.

Step 1: Read current state

  1. Read .design-engineer-plugin/config.yaml for current phase, mode, and resume state
  2. Read .design-engineer-plugin/dependencies.yaml for deliverable status
  3. Check the current conversation for any in-progress work (partially drafted deliverables, unanswered questions, ongoing analysis)

Step 2: Save partial progress

If there is any in-progress work in the current conversation:

  1. Save whatever partial content exists to the appropriate deliverable file with a [DRAFT – IN PROGRESS] marker at the top
  2. Note what was completed and what remains in the file

If no in-progress work exists (the user just wants to stop between activities):

  1. Skip this step – automatic saving already handled it

Step 3: Update config

Update .design-engineer-plugin/config.yaml with the current resume state:

  • Current phase and phase name
  • Last completed skill
  • Next skill (what to resume with)
  • Timestamp

Step 4: Suggest compaction

Read skills/shared-references/compact-template.md and generate a ready-to-use compact message for the user. Present it:

"Your progress is saved. If you want to start a fresh session, here's a compact message you can use with /compact:"

[generated compact message]

Step 5: Confirm

Tell the user what was saved, where they are in the pipeline, and how to resume:

"Saved. You're in Phase [N] ([name]), last completed [skill]. Run /design-engineer:launch in a new session to pick up where you left off."

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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 · 70 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A d455068e9640

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-engineer:stop is a command published in the GitHub repository volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 598 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.