claude-code-config: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/pause/SKILL.md

pause is a skill for Claude Code from auerbachb/claude-code-config. It costs 73 tokens per session (14,861 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A command for safely stopping the current session’s background coding work at a resumable point. It first allows near-complete pull requests to finish merging, then records what remains for later recovery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when leaving a coding session, closing your laptop, or temporarily parking work while keeping eligible pull requests moving and recording unfinished tasks.
Why use it?
It prevents unfinished work from being left running when you need to close your laptop or stop for the day. It also preserves a machine-readable and human-readable resume point.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

This is auerbachb/claude-code-config's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-code-config itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything claude-code-config configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to auerbachb/claude-code-config. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/auerbachb/claude-code-config/main/.claude/skills/pause/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/auerbachb/claude-code-config

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 14,861 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00073 $0.14861
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.05944
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.02972
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.01486

Measured 22d ago against content hash 6248494f8eaf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

pause scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 22d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

chmod 644 "$MARKER_PATH"
.claude/skills/pause/SKILL.md · 884 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 884 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Land what can land. Park the rest at a deliberate boundary. Write a resume point you can pick up cold.

Two outputs, in this order: an active wind-down that drives near-done PRs to merged, then a machine-readable marker and human-readable summary the companion /pause-resume reads when you sit back down.

This command never relaxes a gate. cr-merge-gate.md Steps 1–1d, 1b and the Step 2 AC verification bind unchanged. The hard stops in CLAUDE.md "PR MERGE AUTHORIZATION" (human CHANGES_REQUESTED on HEAD, failing/incomplete CI, unresolved threads, unchecked AC, protection-modifying bypass) are hard stops here. The window never makes a borderline PR eligible; it only decides how long to wait on already-eligible ones.

One parameter: the runway, /pause [N]. /pause 5 gives a five-minute runway, /pause 0 stops immediately, and plain /pause uses the fifteen-minute default graceful shutdown runway and triage threshold. --window Nm is the equivalent long form (/pause 5 = /pause --window 5m); a caller may choose a shorter or longer non-negative window either way. The command stops earlier when all owned work is terminal. At the chosen deadline it stops leftovers; it never merely returns while billable work continues.

The window is a ceiling on the whole run, not a budget for its middle. It bounds every phase — landing, park bookkeeping, marker writing, state persistence — and not merely the land phase. Once the deadline passes, the run stops all remaining non-terminal work and cuts straight to the bounded terminal path defined in Step 0, degrading optional output rather than blowing the ceiling. A /pause 15 (--window 15m) is observably finished shortly after minute 15, every time, and Step 8 names what was skipped to make that true.

Step 0: Resolve helpers and parse arguments

/pause is invocable from any thread — including one whose cwd is not this repo. Resolve each helper the same way every other stop-style command does:

# Command entry — stamp the clock FIRST. The window is measured from the moment
# /pause was invoked, so preflight (resolving helpers, discovering the repo,
# reading the shutdown reference) is spent inside the window, not free time
# before it. Starting the clock after preflight would silently extend every
# deadline and under-report elapsed time in Step 8.
T_START=$(date -u +%s)

resolve_script() {
  local name="$1" candidate
  for candidate in \
    "$HOME/.claude/skills-worktree/.claude/scripts/$name" \
    "$HOME/.claude/scripts/$name"; do
    if [[ -x "$candidate" ]]; then echo "$candidate"; return 0; fi
  done
  return 1
}
SESSION_STATE_SH=$(resolve_script session-state.sh)     || SESSION_STATE_SH=""
HANDOFF_STATE_SH=$(resolve_script handoff-state.sh)     || HANDOFF_STATE_SH=""
MERGE_GATE_SH=$(resolve_script merge-gate.sh)           || MERGE_GATE_SH=""
AC_CHECKBOXES_SH=$(resolve_script ac-checkboxes.sh)     || AC_CHECKBOXES_SH=""
PR_STATE_SH=$(resolve_script pr-state.sh)               || PR_STATE_SH=""
LOCAL_REVIEW_SH=$(resolve_script local-review.sh)       || LOCAL_REVIEW_SH=""
CLEAN_BEHIND_SH=$(resolve_script clean-behind-check.sh) || CLEAN_BEHIND_SH=""
TABLE_FRESHNESS_SH=$(resolve_script table-freshness.sh) || TABLE_FRESHNESS_SH=""
EXECUTION_PAUSE_SH=$(resolve_script execution-pause.sh) || EXECUTION_PAUSE_SH=""
TASK_REGISTRY_SH=$(resolve_script background-task-registry.sh) || TASK_REGISTRY_SH=""

# Resolve repository identity independently of session-state persistence so a
# degraded state helper does not make the recovery marker undiscoverable.
REPO_KEY=""
if [[ -n "$SESSION_STATE_SH" ]]; then
  REPO_KEY=$("$SESSION_STATE_SH" --repo-key 2>/dev/null) || REPO_KEY=""
  # `--repo-key` NEVER returns empty: it prints `_unknown` and exits 0 when it
  # cannot resolve a repo. Normalise that sentinel to empty so the fallback
  # below actually runs and the `-z` guards downstream actually fire —
  # otherwise teardown clears `_unknown`, a scope nothing polls, and reads as a
  # successful disarm while the live record keeps the floor armed.
  [[ "$REPO_KEY" == "_unknown" ]] && REPO_KEY=""
fi
if [[ -z "$REPO_KEY" ]]; then
  REMOTE=$(git remote get-url origin 2>/dev/null) || REMOTE=""
  REPO_KEY=$(printf '%s' "$REMOTE" | sed -e 's|\.git$||' \
    -e 's|.*github\.com[:/]\([^/]*/[^/]*\)$|\1|')
  [[ "$REPO_KEY" =~ ^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+/[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$ ]] || REPO_KEY=""
  REPO_KEY=$(printf '%s' "$REPO_KEY" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
fi

Read the full file on GitHub · 884 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. 22d ago Changed · +13 lines 6248494f8eaf
  2. 1mo ago Changed 48dfdabcf630
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +434 lines 1007a8deb0f4
  4. 2mo ago First seen · 437 lines · 73 tokens per session scan B 205c1d1263f7

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pause is a skill published in the GitHub repository auerbachb/claude-code-config (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 14,861 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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