pause

A save-point tool for recording the current state of a long-running task so it can be continued in a later session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when pausing a large task, such as a refactor or investigation, and planning to resume it later.
Why use it?
It prevents unfinished work and its context from being lost when you need to step away. It keeps the session open and does not clear anything.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/onebrain-ai/onebrain/pause
Any agent
npx skills add onebrain-ai/onebrain --skill pause
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/onebrain-ai/onebrain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,151 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 $0.00128 $0.02151
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.01076
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00430
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00215

Measured 2d ago against content hash fb94ec22eff6, 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 2d 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.

.claude/plugins/onebrain/skills/pause/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/pause — Save Long-Task Snapshot (TL;DR)

Writes a per-thread snapshot of the current work to [logs_folder]/pause/ so the next session can /resume and pick up seamlessly. Multiple pause files accumulate across days for the same task; /wrapup later consolidates them all into one session log.

Mental model: /pause = SAVE snapshot. It does NOT end the session and does NOT clear context. User runs /clear manually when ready to free context.


Scope

  • /pause writes pause snapshot files only. It does NOT touch checkpoints, session logs, MEMORY.md, or memory/ files.
  • It DOES update the pointer file [logs_folder]/pause/_active.md to set/confirm the active thread slug.

Step 1: Determine Active Thread Slug

  1. Read [logs_folder]/pause/_active.md if present. The file is plain text — one line — containing a kebab-case slug.
  2. If the file exists and is non-empty: use that slug as active_slug.
  3. If absent / empty:
    • Agent reviews session context → propose a kebab-case slug from the dominant topic (e.g. cli-refactor, oracle-borrows)
    • Use AskUserQuestion to confirm. Question: "Active thread name? Suggested: <proposed-slug>" with options: (a) accept suggestion, (b) type a different slug
    • On confirmation, set active_slug = <chosen> and continue
  4. If /pause --task=<slug> was invoked with an explicit slug:
    • If <slug> is not plain kebab-case (lowercase letters, digits, hyphens only — reject anything with glob or path characters like *, ?, [, /) → abort with message "⚠️ Invalid thread name <slug>. Active thread unchanged." Slugs become filenames and glob patterns; never accept an unvalidated one.
    • If _active.md is empty or contains the same slug → set active_slug = <slug>, skip warning
    • If _active.md contains a different slug → use AskUserQuestion: "⚠️ Active thread: <existing> (N unmerged snapshots). Switch to <new>? (y/N)". On y → set active_slug = <new>. On n → abort silently with message "Pause aborted — active thread unchanged."

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 125 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A fb94ec22eff6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pause is a skill published in the GitHub repository onebrain-ai/onebrain (25 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 2,151 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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