Pause

Skill hartz89/bonsai/skills/pause

Harness engineering, without the engineering. Grows your Claude Code agent config as you work, and prunes it before it rots.

Install

npx -y skills add hartz89/bonsai --skill pause

Assembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.

2 things to look at

13 days oldThe repository was created 13 days ago. New is not bad, but a brand new repository carrying a familiar-sounding name is the shape a typosquat arrives in, and there has been no time for anyone else to find a problem with it.
1 stars1 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.

What its author says it does

Copied from the file, not written here

Stop or resume bonsai's observation and surfacing for this repository.

SKILL.md

1.5 KB, 320 tokens by cl100k_base, as published. Nobody here has run it

bonsai:pause

One step off, one step on. This is a first-class command rather than a config field because an off-switch you have to look up isn't an off-switch (etiquette.md rule 7).

Pause (default)

Create .claude/bonsai/paused containing the date and, if the user gave one, the reason.

Everything stops immediately: scripts/retro.sh exits before spawning any model, and scripts/pending.sh emits nothing. Both check for this file first. Existing proposals and artifacts are left exactly as they are — pausing is not uninstalling.

Confirm in one line, and say how to undo it:

bonsai paused for this repo. /bonsai:pause --resume to turn it back on.

Resume (`--resume`)

Delete the file. Report in one line whether anything is pending:

bonsai resumed. 2 proposals still pending — /bonsai:review

Notes

Already in the requested state? Say so in one line. Don't re-do it, and don't explain yourself.
This is per-repository. For a global off switch, set retrospective: false in the plugin's config via /plugin, or CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_AUTO_MEMORY=1 to disable the underlying memory that feeds it.
Never argue with the decision or pitch the feature. The user asked for quiet; be quiet.

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.