pause

pause is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SienkLogic/plan-build-run. It costs 12 tokens per session (2,571 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-checkpoint tool that saves the current work state in a handoff file for later continuation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record project status, decisions, and the next step before pausing work.
Why use it?
It preserves context so a future session can resume without rediscovering what was done or what remains.

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 pbr plugin — 45 skills, 71 commands, 18 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/sienklogic/plan-build-run/pause
Any agent
npx skills add SienkLogic/plan-build-run --skill pause
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SienkLogic/plan-build-run

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install pbr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 45 skills, 71 commands, 18 agents, 3 hooks.

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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
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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 2,571 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 $0.02571
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.01286
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00514
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00257

Measured yesterday against content hash 964d2d1dc9d4, 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 yesterday.

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/pbr/skills/pause/SKILL.md · 294 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 294 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

STOP — DO NOT READ THIS FILE. You are already reading it. This prompt was injected into your context by Claude Code's plugin system. Using the Read tool on this SKILL.md file wastes ~7,600 tokens. Begin executing Step 1 immediately.

Step 0 — Immediate Output

Before ANY tool calls, display this banner:

╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║  PLAN-BUILD-RUN ► PAUSING SESSION                            ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

Then proceed to Step 1.

/pbr:pause-work — Save Session State

You are running the pause skill. Your job is to capture the current session state so the user can resume exactly where they left off in a future conversation. This creates a .continue-here.md handoff file with everything the next session needs.

This skill runs inline (no Task delegation).


Core Principle

Capture everything the next session needs to hit the ground running. The resume skill will read this file cold, with zero prior context. Write it as if you're handing off to a colleague who has never seen this project.


Flow

Step 1: Read Current State

Flag: --checkpoint

If $ARGUMENTS contains --checkpoint:

  • Perform a lightweight state dump without full session analysis
  • Write a minimal .continue-here.md with just: Position, git status, and suggested next action
  • Skip the detailed "Completed This Session" analysis (saves time)
  • Useful for quick manual checkpoints at any point

Read the following files to understand where things stand:

  1. .planning/STATE.md — Current position
    • Extract: current phase, current plan, progress, blockers
    • If STATE.md doesn't exist, display:
      ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
      ║  ERROR                                                       ║
      ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
      
      No Plan-Build-Run project state found. Nothing to pause.
      
      **To fix:** Run `/pbr:new-project` to initialize a project first.
      

Read the full file on GitHub · 294 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 294 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 964d2d1dc9d4

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pause is a skill published in the GitHub repository SienkLogic/plan-build-run (17 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 2,571 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 2026-09-03.

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