Stop

Skill emaballarin/ccplugins/plugins/autoresearch/skills/stop

Personal plugins for Claude Code (& friends)... maybe worth sharing!

Install

npx -y skills add emaballarin/ccplugins --skill stop

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What its author says it does

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End the current autoresearch run — append a `status:stopped` sentinel to `./.ar/ar.jsonl`, which is also what halts the external `ar-loop.sh` driver. Use for `/ar:stop`, "stop the loop", "halt autoresearch", or "that's enough iterations". Writes the sentinel and the final report, then prints (does not run) the command to return to the original branch. Never reverts or discards work — every kept commit stays on the experiment branch.

SKILL.md

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/ar:stop — end the run

Halt cleanly, leaving everything recoverable.

Steps

Read state (cat ./.ar/ar.jsonl | tail -50). No ar.jsonl means no run to stop — say so and stop.
If HEAD carries a Result: pending trailer, an iteration was interrupted mid-measurement. Leave the commit alone, and record it in the sentinel's reason so a later /ar:resume re-measures rather than reverting it.
Append the sentinel — the last line of the file, and what ar-loop.sh greps for:
```
{ "run": <n>, "status": "stopped", "segment": <s>, "reason": "<why>" }
```
Write ./.ar/final_report.md (see the /ar:report skill for its shape).

Print the final status block, the best commit, and — as text, not as a command to run — how to get back:

git switch <config.originBranch>          # return to where the run started
git log --format='%h %s' --grep='"status":"keep"' <config.branch>

Hard rules

Destroy nothing. No reverts, no branch deletion, no git clean. Stopping is not discarding: the experiment branch and every kept commit stay exactly as they are, and the operator decides later what to merge or bin.
Do not switch branches. Print the command and leave the experiment branch checked out for inspection.
Stopping is reversible — a later /ar:resume opens a new segment and carries on from the same state. Say so.

Completion status

End with a terminal status token as the last line of your reply — DONE, DONE_WITH_CONCERNS, BLOCKED, or NEEDS_CONTEXT — per references/completion-status.md. For /ar:stop, DONE once the status:stopped sentinel is appended and the report written; NEEDS_CONTEXT if there is no active run to stop.