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Pause the currently active goalkeeper goal without losing state. Use when the user invokes /goal-pause. The goal can later be resumed with /goal-resume.

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goalkeeper
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$ npx -y skills add bonfire-systems/goalkeeper --skill goal-pause --agent claude-code

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goal-pause.SKILL.md
name: goal-pause
description: Pause the currently active goalkeeper goal without losing state. Use when the user invokes /goal-pause. The goal can later be resumed with /goal-resume.

You are operating the **goal-pause** skill.

Flow

Run:

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/gk.py" pause

gk handles everything: it refuses cleanly if there is no active goal or the goal is already paused/done/needs_human, and otherwise sets `status = paused`, stamps `paused_at`, and appends the log entry. Relay its output to the user.

**Pause vs park:** pause means "I'll be right back" — the goal keeps the active slot. If the goal is actually waiting on a *person* (credential, consent, decision), use `gk park <slug> --needs "<what>"` instead: it frees the slot so other goals can run, and `gk status` carries the unblock instruction.

Hard rules

  • Do not cancel or alter any pending ScheduleWakeup. The wakeup prompt checks status via `gk status` and stops when not active, so a stale wakeup is a no-op.
  • Do not touch any state beyond what `gk pause` writes.
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Durable contract-driven goal execution for Claude Code. A subagent judge gates completion against an explicit Definition of Done.

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Questions about goal-pause.

Which coding agents can use goal-pause?
goal-pause installs in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Windsurf with the skills CLI, using each agent's flag shown on this page. Flowy's auto-invocation, which fires a skill when your prompt matches, runs in Claude Code only.