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Cooperatively pause unfinished work in the current session, leave a precise continuation checkpoint, and resume from it when the user later says continue.
Install Pause And Resume
$ npx skills add dongshuyan/compass-skills --skill pause-and-resume -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install dongshuyan/compass-skills pause-and-resume --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/pause-and-resume .claude/skills/pause-and-resume && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "pause-and-resume" agent skill from https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills/tree/master/skills/pause-and-resume into .claude/skills/pause-and-resume/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pause-and-resume", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills/tree/master/skills/pause-and-resumeType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add dongshuyan/compass-skills --skill pause-and-resume -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install dongshuyan/compass-skills pause-and-resume --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/pause-and-resume .agents/skills/pause-and-resume && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "pause-and-resume" agent skill from https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills/tree/master/skills/pause-and-resume into .agents/skills/pause-and-resume/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pause-and-resume", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add dongshuyan/compass-skills --skill pause-and-resume -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install dongshuyan/compass-skills pause-and-resume --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/pause-and-resume .cursor/skills/pause-and-resume && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "pause-and-resume" agent skill from https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills/tree/master/skills/pause-and-resume into .cursor/skills/pause-and-resume/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pause-and-resume", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills.git --path skills/pause-and-resume--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add dongshuyan/compass-skills --skill pause-and-resume -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install dongshuyan/compass-skills pause-and-resume --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/pause-and-resume .gemini/skills/pause-and-resume && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "pause-and-resume" agent skill from https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills/tree/master/skills/pause-and-resume into .gemini/skills/pause-and-resume/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pause-and-resume", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install dongshuyan/compass-skills pause-and-resumeInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add dongshuyan/compass-skills --skill pause-and-resume -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/pause-and-resume .github/skills/pause-and-resume && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "pause-and-resume" agent skill from https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills/tree/master/skills/pause-and-resume into .github/skills/pause-and-resume/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pause-and-resume", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add dongshuyan/compass-skills --skill pause-and-resume -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install dongshuyan/compass-skills pause-and-resume --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/pause-and-resume .opencode/skills/pause-and-resume && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "pause-and-resume" agent skill from https://github.com/dongshuyan/compass-skills/tree/master/skills/pause-and-resume into .opencode/skills/pause-and-resume/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pause-and-resume", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
pause-and-resume- GitHub stars
- 753
- Token cost
- ~763 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 367 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 9
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Cooperatively pause unfinished work in the current session, leave a precise continuation checkpoint, and resume from it when the user later says continue.
- Works in 5 steps: Stop expanding the task. Do not begin… → Let an already-started atomic action… → Preserve facts, not guesses. Distinguish… → …
- Later says continue
- SKILL.md covers Pause and Resume
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Pause And Resume is an agent skill from dongshuyan/compass-skills. Cooperatively pause unfinished work in the current session, leave a precise continuation checkpoint, and resume from it when the user later says continue. Use only when the user explicitly requests this pause workflow. Do not use for crashes, app shutdown, new-session handoffs, or ordinary task summaries.
Its SKILL.md is about 760 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Session handoff. The repository describes itself as: 司南：个性化 AI 任务总控 Skills 系统 /COMPASS: Personal Alignment Skills OS for AI Agents. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Later says continue
- Explicitly requests this pause workflow
- New-session handoffs
- Ordinary task summaries
Example prompts
- “/pause-and-resume”
Workflow steps
5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Stop expanding the task. Do not begin another subtask, retry, or optional
- Let an already-started atomic action finish only when interruption would
- Preserve facts, not guesses. Distinguish completed, in progress, blocked,
- If work continues independently, record its handle, observed status, and
- End the turn with the compact checkpoint below, in the user's language.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1b2e556. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Pause And Resume loads about 763 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 81 tokens; SKILL.md has 367 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from dongshuyan/compass-skills at commit 1b2e556, republished under its MIT licence (© dongshuyan). 367 words, ~763 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/pause-and-resume/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- pause-and-resume
- description
- Cooperatively pause unfinished work in the current session, leave a precise continuation checkpoint, and resume from it when the user later says continue. Use only when the user explicitly requests this pause workflow. Do not use for crashes, app shutdown, new-session handoffs, or ordinary task summaries.
Pause and Resume
Keep this workflow in the current session. Store its state in the pause response; do not create files, commits, or new tasks solely to checkpoint it.
Pause
- Stop expanding the task. Do not begin another subtask, retry, or optional check.
- Let an already-started atomic action finish only when interruption would leave inconsistent state. Otherwise stop at the nearest safe boundary. Use only the smallest necessary read-only check or already-authorized cleanup to record an accurate, safe state.
- Preserve facts, not guesses. Distinguish completed, in progress, blocked, and unknown work. Record exact non-sensitive paths, parameters, job IDs, and receipts when they are needed to continue. Never expose secrets.
- If work continues independently, record its handle, observed status, and how to reconcile it. Do not cancel, restart, or dispatch it again merely to pause.
- End the turn with the compact checkpoint below, in the user's language. Keep the marker exact, omit irrelevant detail, and state explicitly when there is no known non-repeatable effect.
PAUSE_CHECKPOINT: ACTIVE
- Goal and done condition:
- Completed:
- Current stopping point:
- Remaining work:
- First action on resume:
- Do not repeat:
- Constraints and settled decisions:
- Live state, running work, and facts to recheck:Finish with the equivalent of: Paused. When you return, say "continue". Then
stop. Do not perform the first resume action in the pause turn.
If there is no unfinished task, say so and stop without emitting an active checkpoint.
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Resume
When the user later asks to continue the paused work:
- Use the newest unconsumed
PAUSE_CHECKPOINT: ACTIVEin this session. A checkpoint is consumed once substantive work has resumed from it. If none exists, interpret the request from the immediate conversation normally. - Apply later user instructions over the checkpoint. Recheck only mutable or high-risk state that could have changed while paused, especially files, worktree state, running jobs, and external side effects.
- Reconcile recorded in-flight work before starting replacements. Never repeat
an item under
Do not repeatunless current evidence proves it did not occur and repeating it is authorized. - Resume directly from
First action on resume, then continue the recorded remaining work. Do not ask the user to restate known context or produce a new plan unless material drift makes a decision necessary.
This workflow cannot recover a killed process, missing conversation, or a different session; use a handoff or persistent checkpoint workflow for those cases.
© dongshuyan, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/pause-and-resume of dongshuyan/compass-skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1b2e556
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pause And Resume this skilldongshuyan/compass-skills | 753 | — | ~763 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Orca CLIstablyai/orca | 89k | 2 repos | ~593 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Beads Task Memorygastownhall/beads | 28k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Session History Searchslopus/happy | 24k | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Paseo Agent Handoffgetpaseo/paseo | 20k | 1 repos | ~606 | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Memori Long-Term MemoryMemoriLabs/Memori | 17k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Notes | Custom licence |
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Questions about Pause And Resume
What does Pause And Resume do?
Cooperatively pause unfinished work in the current session, leave a precise continuation checkpoint, and resume from it when the user later says continue. Pause And Resume is an agent skill from dongshuyan/compass-skills. Cooperatively pause unfinished work in the current session, leave a precise continuation checkpoint, and resume from it when the user later says continue.
When should I use Pause And Resume?
Pause And Resume fits situations like: later says continue; explicitly requests this pause workflow; new-session handoffs; ordinary task summaries.
How do I install Pause And Resume in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add dongshuyan/compass-skills --skill pause-and-resume -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/pause-and-resume in dongshuyan/compass-skills) into .claude/skills/pause-and-resume in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Pause And Resume in Codex?
Run `npx skills add dongshuyan/compass-skills --skill pause-and-resume -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/pause-and-resume in dongshuyan/compass-skills) into .agents/skills/pause-and-resume in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Pause And Resume in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add dongshuyan/compass-skills --skill pause-and-resume -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/pause-and-resume, .gemini/skills/pause-and-resume, .github/skills/pause-and-resume and .opencode/skills/pause-and-resume in your project.
What does Pause And Resume need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Pause And Resume is instructions for the agent only.
Does Pause And Resume access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Pause And Resume safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Pause And Resume use?
Pause And Resume is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Pause And Resume use?
About 763 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Pause And Resume?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Pause And Resume: Orca CLI (stablyai/orca, 89k stars), Beads Task Memory (gastownhall/beads, 28k stars), Session History Search (slopus/happy, 24k stars) and Paseo Agent Handoff (getpaseo/paseo, 20k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Pause And Resume?
dongshuyan (a GitHub user) maintains it in dongshuyan/compass-skills, which has 753 GitHub stars. The repository holds 9 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 26, 2026.
Source: dongshuyan/compass-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.