A command for setting an active task aside while keeping its GitHub issue open for later continuation.

Use it when switching to another task without marking the current work complete. It supports selecting a specific issue when multiple tasks are active.

It records the paused issue locally and posts a pause notice before removing it from the active-task list, so the task can be resumed without losing track of it.

How Koroqe/OPOS configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Koroqe/OPOS. 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/Koroqe/OPOS/main/.claude/skills/task-pause/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Koroqe/OPOS

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,439 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00035	$0.01439
Opus 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00576
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00288
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00144

Measured 27d ago against content hash 064619d77be3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

task-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 27d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

- **No active task** — `.current-task` absent. Recovery: nothing to pause; user can list paused tasks via `cat .claude/.paused-tasks`.

.claude/skills/task-pause/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

task-pause

When to use

When you want to set the current task aside to work on something else, without closing the GitHub issue. The paused issue is recorded in .claude/.paused-tasks for later resumption via task-resume. Replaces the "manually rm .current-task and remember the issue number" workaround that's been used 4× across prior releases.

Inputs

issue — optional override. As of v0.7.0 .current-task is a newline-delimited array; this skill auto-picks when exactly 1 is active and REQUIRES --issue when 2+ are active (see step 2).

Steps

ORDER MATTERS — task-update (step 3) must run BEFORE the issue is removed from .current-task (step 5), because task-update reads .current-task to know which issue to comment on. Reversed order = task-update may pick the wrong target (or fail if this was the only active task).

Resolve repo root. REPO_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel).
Read .current-task as a newline-delimited array (v0.7.0 array semantics; v0.6.x single-task content parses as 1-element array — fully backwards-compatible). Apply defensive read-side filtering (drop non-digit lines per Risk 30). Then determine the target issue:
- If --issue <N> was provided → use it directly. (Must be present in the array; if absent, ABORT with Issue #N not in active list. Active: #<list>.)
- Else if the array has EXACTLY 1 entry → use it (v0.6.x single-task workflow preserved).
- Else if the array has >1 entries → ABORT with Multiple active tasks: #<comma-list>. Pass --issue <N> to specify which one to pause.
- Else (empty/absent) → ABORT with "No active task to pause." Capture as $ISSUE. Do not modify .current-task here — the removal happens at step 5 AFTER step 3's task-update has run.
Post pause notice via task-update (while .current-task still exists so task-update can read it):
```
task-update \
  --message "Task paused by user; will resume via /task-resume $ISSUE." \
  --key "paused-$(date -u +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ)" \
  --status blocked
```
Why --status blocked not --status paused: task-update's allowed-status set is in_progress | blocked | review. "Paused" is a framework-internal state tracked via .paused-tasks membership; on GitHub the issue shows **Status:** blocked (the closest existing semantic — blocked-by-other-priorities, awaiting resume).

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

27d ago Changed 064619d77be3
28d ago Changed · -13 lines 519e15af8b7e
1mo ago First seen · 92 lines · 35 tokens per session scan B 68bfcb5fde0a

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task-pause is a skill published in the GitHub repository Koroqe/OPOS (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,439 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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