Pause and resume

Two branches. Pausing leaves a checkpoint a cold-start agent can resume from. Picking up reads that checkpoint, or any prior trail, and continues from it.

This skill resumes one session's work. It differs from two user-invoked skills:

• /recall rebuilds context across many recent chats and the shared record. It does not resume one session.
• /handoff writes a portable document for a new harness, folder or person. When the next agent lives elsewhere, tell the user to run /handoff instead.

Pausing

You own a clean stop. Pause only on an explicit request: a pause, going offline, a harness restart, or imminent context compaction. On "keep going", "going to bed, keep going" or "don't stop", keep working.

1. Stop at a safe boundary. Finish the current atomic step or back out of it. Start nothing new, and cancel any subagents you started.
2. Take no irreversible action to pause. Open no PR and push nothing, unless a PR or push was already out.
3. Make the work durable. Commit uncommitted edits as one clear wip: commit on the current branch so nothing is lost. If the tree is broken, say so in one line of the commit body.
4. Write the resume note off-context. Call the Skill tool with "scratchpad" and write the note to .scratchpad/<slug>/resume.md. Capture the intent, what you were doing, progress and what is verified, the current state, the next steps, key files and gotchas. If a show-me-your-work trail exists, point at it instead of copying it.

Picking up