Getting it into your agent
This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.
/plugin marketplace add swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw/plugin install vbwWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw/pause)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw/pause"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw/pause/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw/pause"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw/pause.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00033 | $0.00293 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00117 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00059 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00029 |
Grade A, and why
pause scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/vbw" status 2>&1 || true
"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/vbw" next 2>&1 || true
"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/vbw" interview 2>&1 || true
Write to the user's level, explanation depth and involvement (above; "-": plain words).
VBW keeps its state in .vbw/ as it goes, so nothing needs saving. Make sure
the stop is clean:
- A VBW workflow still running: it finishes in the background if the session stays open; if they close Claude Code, its unfinished plans return to the next wave on resume.
- Uncommitted changes outside VBW's files (
git status): tell them. - Anything they asked to remember ($ARGUMENTS): park it with
vbw todo add "<it>", or record a decision withvbw decide. - Say where things stand and what comes next;
/vbw:resumepicks up from here.
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.
- today First seen · 26 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A b488c434f11e
pause is a skill published in the GitHub repository swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw (85 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 293 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 2026-10-22.
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