goal-pause

goal-pause is a skill for Claude Code from bonfire-systems/goalkeeper. It costs 36 tokens per session (268 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A control for temporarily stopping the currently active software goal while keeping its saved state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pause an active goal and later resume it; use a separate parked state when the goal is waiting for a person or decision.
Why use it?
It lets you step away from work without cancelling it or losing its progress.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the goalkeeper plugin — 8 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add bonfire-systems/goalkeeper
Claude Code
/plugin install goalkeeper

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install goalkeeper, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 268 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 5.1 $0.00036 $0.00268
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00134
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00027

Measured 6d ago against content hash 665ad1e1a9ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

goal-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 6d 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/goal-pause/SKILL.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

You are operating the goal-pause skill.

Flow

Run:

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/gk.py" pause

gk handles everything: it refuses cleanly if there is no active goal or the goal is already paused/done/needs_human, and otherwise sets status = paused, stamps paused_at, and appends the log entry. Relay its output to the user.

Pause vs park: pause means "I'll be right back" — the goal keeps the active slot. If the goal is actually waiting on a person (credential, consent, decision), use gk park <slug> --needs "<what>" instead: it frees the slot so other goals can run, and gk status carries the unblock instruction.

Hard rules

  • Do not cancel or alter any pending ScheduleWakeup. The wakeup prompt checks status via gk status and stops when not active, so a stale wakeup is a no-op.
  • Do not touch any state beyond what gk pause writes.
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. 6d ago First seen · 24 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 665ad1e1a9ad

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goal-pause is a skill published in the GitHub repository bonfire-systems/goalkeeper (12 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 268 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.

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