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Use when the user wants to pause work mid-phase or hand it off to a new session. Writes .continue-here.md with position, completed and remaining work, decisions and blockers, commits it as WIP, and prints resume instructions.

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$ npx -y skills add coco-research/coco --skill gsd-pause-work --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/gsd-pause-work

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Use when the user wants to pause work mid-phase or hand it off to a new session. Writes .continue-here.md with position, completed and remaining work, decisions and blockers, commits it as WIP, and prints resume instructions.

SKILL.md

gsd-pause-work.SKILL.md
name: gsd-pause-work
description: "Use when the user wants to pause work mid-phase or hand it off to a new session. Writes .continue-here.md with position, completed and remaining work, decisions and blockers, commits it as WIP, and prints resume instructions."
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - Write
  - Bash

<objective> Create `.continue-here.md` handoff file to preserve complete work state across sessions.

Routes to the pause-work workflow which handles:

  • Current phase detection from recent files
  • Complete state gathering (position, completed work, remaining work, decisions, blockers)
  • Handoff file creation with all context sections
  • Git commit as WIP
  • Resume instructions

</objective>

<execution_context> @$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/workflows/pause-work.md </execution_context>

<context> State and phase progress are gathered in-workflow with targeted reads. </context>

<process> **Follow the pause-work workflow** from `@$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/workflows/pause-work.md`.

The workflow handles all logic including: 1. Phase directory detection 2. State gathering with user clarifications 3. Handoff file writing with timestamp 4. Git commit 5. Confirmation with resume instructions </process>

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CoCo Super Intelligence is the orchestration layer that turns Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex into an engineering department: a routed advisory board, 226 skills, 386 commands, persistent state. Local. Open-core — MIT core; Super Intelligence is proprietary, own-use.

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