cad-pause

cad-pause is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from crenshawdev/cadence. It costs 36 tokens per session (540 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for pausing unfinished development with a work-in-progress commit and a saved resume position. It records the current phase and the next concrete action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when stopping mid-task so a later progress command can point back to where work should resume.
Why use it?
It leaves the project in a clean, recoverable state instead of relying on memory or uncommitted files.

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 cadence plugin — 34 skills, 19 agents, 3 hooks 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/crenshawdev/cadence/cad-pause
Any agent
npx skills add crenshawdev/cadence --skill cad-pause
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/crenshawdev/cadence

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cadence, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 19 agents, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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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 540 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 $0.00036 $0.00540
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00270
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00054

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7e793aca1abf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cad-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 3d 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/cad-pause/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

<execution_context> @${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/cadence-core/references/git-guard.md </execution_context>

  1. Set the cursor through the seam (never hand-edit STATE.md):

    node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/cadence-core/bin/planning.mjs" cursor set \
      --phase <current> --status paused --next-file <path>
    

    The resume pointer is a one-line "where I was" naming the next concrete action (from $ARGUMENTS, or ask via the ask-user seam if not given) - the user's own sentence, so write it to a scratch file and pass the PATH (caller-derived text - references/conventions.md). This line IS the pause note /cad-progress surfaces. --phase <current> is required - the seam does NOT preserve a prior Phase: (it fails bad-args without it); supply the current phase from cursor get, which goes in one message with step 1's protected-branch git probes - they are independent, and only a call that consumes a prior call's output is serialized. The seam derives name/total from ROADMAP and stamps Updated: itself. Commit the cursor (docs:), or fold it into the WIP commit if one was made. Never leave the tree dirty.

  2. Report. One line: paused at , resume with /cad-progress.

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. 3d ago First seen · 52 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 7e793aca1abf

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cad-pause is a skill published in the GitHub repository crenshawdev/cadence (4 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 540 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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