pause

pause is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Bangs00/claude-media-control. It costs 30 tokens per session (156 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for pausing system-wide media playback on a Mac.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want to pause or temporarily hold a song. If nothing is playing, it reports that instead.
Why use it?
It stops the currently playing media without requiring you to switch to the app that started it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the media plugin — 16 skills, 1 hook shipped together

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 skills/bangs00/claude-media-control/pause
Any agent
npx skills add Bangs00/claude-media-control --skill pause
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bangs00/claude-media-control

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install media, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 hook.

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agentmods badge for pause

README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 156 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 $0.00030 $0.00156
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00078
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00016

Measured 4d ago against content hash 07252f76ffad, 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 4d 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.

skills/pause/SKILL.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

Pause command sent. Resulting state (JSON):

!"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/media.sh" pause

Confirm to the user in one compact markdown line (not a code block): ▶︎|⏸ **<title>** — *<artist>* · <appName> (title bold, artist italic; expect ).

  • If the JSON is null: nothing was playing to pause.
  • If "degraded": true or a stderr hint appeared: add one short note pointing to /media:doctor.
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. 4d ago First seen · 15 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 07252f76ffad

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pause is a skill published in the GitHub repository Bangs00/claude-media-control (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 156 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 2026-08-31.

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