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Vulyk Pause — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Pause the loop - creates the PAUSE semaphore so it stops at its next safe point and hands the tree back.

How to install Vulyk Pause

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/black-coffe-litopys-vulyk-pause.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Black-coffe/litopys/HEAD/.claude/commands/vulyk-pause.md -o ~/.claude/commands/black-coffe-litopys-vulyk-pause.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Vulyk Pause does

description: Pause the loop - creates the PAUSE semaphore so it stops at its next safe point and hands the tree back argument-hint: ["why"]

Pause: "$ARGUMENTS" (the first token is the spec slug; anything after it is the reason).

bash scripts/cycle.sh pause docs/specs/ "" (without a reason it records "no reason given"). Print exactly what it prints: the cycle: - paused: line and its JSON.
Tell the owner what this does to a loop already running

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