Pause task

Stop work on a task and keep every agent — including you, on the next run — off it until a human resumes it. Use it when you are STUCK in a way that no question would fix: you are going round the same loop, a credential or access you need isn't there, the task as written can't be done, or you can see yourself about to spend a lot for nothing. Pausing is the honest end of a run that isn't going anywhere, and it is the only tool here that stops the work from being picked straight back up: comment and the next agent claims the same task and hits the same wall, decline_task and it goes back in the queue for someone else to hit. Prefer ask_decision when you have an actual QUESTION — a fork a human could settle in one line — because that keeps the task alive and answerable; pause when you don't even have a question to ask. Prefer decline_task when the task is fine and simply isn't yours. reason is required and is the whole value of the call: it is what the human reads when they come back to it, so say what you hit and what you had already tried, not just "stuck". You cannot un-pause: resuming is a human action in the app, deliberately, so that an agent which paused itself for looping can't put itself back in the loop.