pause-and-resume SKILL.md skillA
pause-and-resume from dongshuyan/compass-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dongshuyan/compass-skills/pause-and-resume@git:20260826.2cd09f2Pins git:20260826.2cd09f2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dongshuyan/compass-skills
- Path
skills/pause-and-resume/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260826.2cd09f2, committed Aug 26, 2026
- Size
- 3,049 bytes
- Repository stars
- 758
- License
- MIT
Cooperatively pause unfinished work in the current session, leave a precise continuation checkpoint, and resume from it when the user later says continue. Use only when the user explicitly requests this pause workflow. Do not use for crashes, app shutdown, new-session handoffs, or ordinary task summaries.
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
# Pause and Resume Keep this workflow in the current session. Store its state in the pause response; do not create files, commits, or new tasks solely to checkpoint it. ## Pause 1. Stop expanding the task. Do not begin another subtask, retry, or optional check. 2. Let an already-started atomic action finish only when interruption would leave inconsistent state. Otherwise stop at the nearest safe boundary. Use only the smallest necessary read-only check or already-authorized cleanup to record an accurate, safe state. 3. Preserve facts, not guesses. Distinguish completed, in progress, blocked, and unknown work. Record exact non-sensitive paths, parameters, job IDs, and receipts when they are needed to continue. Never expose secrets. 4. If work continues independently, record its handle, observed status, and how to reconcile it. Do not cancel, restart, or dispatch it again merely to pause. 5. End the turn with the compact checkpoint below, in the user's language. Keep the marker exact, omit irrelevant detail, and state explicitly when there is no known non-repeatable effect. ```text PAUSE_CHECKPOINT: ACTIVE - Goal and done condition: - Completed: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dongshuyan/compass-skills/pause-and-resume@sha256:c948c2b2be90e1d0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260826.2cd09f2, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_focaqzerdqgrhnd3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 26, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3049 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
dongshuyan/compass-skills · 758 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_focaqzerdqgrhnd3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dongshuyan/compass-skills/pause-and-resume GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c948c2b2be90e1d0e2bf1ebc822398b84ed4f39fccc847cafc7f45a83e517771
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.