pause

pause is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Sh3rd3n/megazord. It costs 12 tokens per session (712 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-saving tool that records project progress, decisions, and changed files for a future coding session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Saving the current project phase, plan, status, and modified files before ending a session.
Why use it?
It creates a handoff record so work can be paused and continued later.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the mz plugin — 16 skills, 16 commands, 6 agents, 2 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/sh3rd3n/megazord/pause
Any agent
npx skills add Sh3rd3n/megazord --skill pause
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sh3rd3n/megazord

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mz, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 16 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for pause

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sh3rd3n/megazord/pause.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sh3rd3n/megazord/pause)
Your own site
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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 712 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 $0.00012 $0.00712
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00356
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00071

Measured 4d ago against content hash 984ad4bada78, 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 4d 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/pause/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/mz:pause

Save current session context including progress, decisions, and modified files for seamless handoff to a future Claude Code session.

Reference @skills/init/design-system.md for all visual output formatting.

Step 1: Display Banner

╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║  ⚡ MEGAZORD ► PAUSE                          ║
╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════╝

Step 2: Load Context

Read .planning/STATE.md for current position and session continuity.

If STATE.md does not exist or .planning/ directory is missing, display:

╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║  ✗ No Megazord project found                  ║
╠═══════════════════════════════════════════════╣
║  Run /mz:init to set up your project first.   ║
╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════╝

Then exit.

Read the current position data to build the pause description. Extract:

  • Current phase number and name
  • Current plan number
  • Current status

Step 3: Stash Modified Files

Build a description string: "Phase {N}, Plan {M}, {status}"

Run via Bash to stash any modified files:

node {plugin_path}/bin/megazord.mjs tools stash pause --description "Phase {N}, Plan {M}, {status}"

Where {plugin_path} is the absolute path to the Megazord plugin directory (the root of this repository where package.json lives).

Parse the JSON result which contains:

  • success: boolean
  • stashRef: string or null (the git stash reference if files were stashed)
  • message: human-readable message

If success is false, display a warning but continue with the pause (stash failure should not block state updates).

Step 4: Update STATE.md

Run via Bash to update session continuity:

node {plugin_path}/bin/megazord.mjs tools state update-session --stopped-at "Phase {N}, Plan {M}, {status}" --stash-ref "{ref_or_None}" --last-error "None"

Also update the status to "Paused" via:

node {plugin_path}/bin/megazord.mjs tools state update-position --status "Paused"

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 4d ago First seen · 97 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 984ad4bada78

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pause is a skill published in the GitHub repository Sh3rd3n/megazord (3 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 712 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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