pan-kill SKILL.md skillA

pan-kill from eltmon/overdeck is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add eltmon/overdeck/pan-kill@git:20261104.d7a9fc8

Pins git:20261104.d7a9fc8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
eltmon/overdeck
Path
sync-sources/skills/pan-kill/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
7
Latest version
git:20261104.d7a9fc8, committed Nov 4, 2026
First version recorded
May 22, 2026
Size
3,762 bytes
Repository stars
35
License
MIT

pan kill <id> — stop a running agent (workspace and branch preserved).

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Stop Agent

## Overview

`pan kill` (alias `pan stop`) stops an agent and closes its terminal through the host's terminal
backend: `pane.close` on Herdr (the default), `kill-session` on tmux. The workspace, branch, and
xBRIEF are preserved.

Always stop agents with `pan kill`, never with raw `tmux kill-session` or `herdr pane close`. A raw
terminal kill skips the state write, the orphan-launcher sweep, and the Docker teardown; a raw tmux
kill on a Herdr host reaches nothing at all (PAN-3947).

## When to Use

- Agent is stuck or not making progress
- Need to reassign the work
- Agent completed work and should be stopped
- Emergency stop needed
- Freeing up system resources

## Quick Command

```bash
# Every agent of an issue (work, planning, review/test specialists, strike, swarm slots)
pan kill ISSUE-123

# Exactly one agent
pan kill agent-issue-123-test
```

`<id>` also accepts a conversation name such as `20260928-7563`, `conv/<n>` or `conv:<n>` and a dashboard URL such as `https://overdeck.localhost/conv/2972` — a conversation target stops only that conversation, unlike an issue ID's issue-wide fan-out.

## Workflow

### 1. Check Agent Status First

```bash
pan status
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add eltmon/overdeck/pan-kill@sha256:248f26b26ebcfd15

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261104.d7a9fc8, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_d45vb2sih6mvzdeh.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_d45vb2sih6mvzdeh)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between May 22, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026, about one every 28 days.

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git:20261104.d7a9fc8 latest2026-11-04 d7a9fc8 3,762 BA view · diff
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git:20260527.f1b48a42026-05-27 f1b48a4 3,628 BA view · diff
git:20260522.817c2c72026-05-22 817c2c7 3,413 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3762 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

eltmon/overdeck · 35 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_d45vb2sih6mvzdeh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=eltmon/overdeck/pan-kill
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/248f26b26ebcfd15c1f26ebd2f7b301860455939dfaa438ba84c0018d48ca083

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