Vulyk Pause — Development skill for Claude Code
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
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: thecycle: - paused:line and its JSON.- Tell the owner what this does to a loop already running
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