pause

pause is a skill for Claude Code from Everyone-Needs-A-Copilot/claude-copilot. It costs 31 tokens per session (251 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pause-and-resume workflow for unfinished coding work. It records the current task state, the reason for pausing, and the next action so work can continue later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to mark active work as paused when supported, save a short resume note, and preserve related project memory.
Why use it?
It prevents context from being lost when you switch tasks or end a session.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the claude-copilot plugin — 73 skills, 18 commands, 16 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to mark active work as paused when supported, save a short resume note, and preserve related project memory.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/everyone-needs-a-copilot/claude-copilot/pause
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Everyone-Needs-A-Copilot/claude-copilot --skill pause
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Everyone-Needs-A-Copilot/claude-copilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-copilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 73 skills, 18 commands, 16 agents, 6 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 251 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00031 $0.00251
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00100
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00025

Measured 6d ago against content hash d19442dc040c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

plugins/codex-copilot/skills/pause/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Pause

Preserve current work so it can be resumed later.

Workflow

  1. Find in-progress work with tc task list --status in_progress --json.
  2. Store a compact pause work product on each active task with the reason, current state, and next action.
  3. Update task status to paused only if the local tc version supports that status; otherwise store the pause work product and leave the status unchanged.
  4. If retrieval needs it, update a scoped memory pointer to that task record; do not duplicate the pause narrative in memory.
  5. Return a compact resume instruction.

Safety

Do not modify files, branches, worktrees, or task data destructively.

Work Lifecycle

Apply the shared work lifecycle once per task, including direct invocation of this skill: start/resume, maintain, pause/handoff, finish and later reuse. Keep the checkpoint proportional in the existing record; a small answer does not need a new task or document.

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 Changed d19442dc040c
  2. 7d ago Changed · +7 lines 73b6ba34141f
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 21 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A bc89d27efc03

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pause is a skill published in the GitHub repository Everyone-Needs-A-Copilot/claude-copilot (14 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 251 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-04.

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