/pause-memory
A Claude Code slash command, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
Memory writes while automemory is paused now tell you the command to resume it.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.248.
In the changelogs
11Releases whose published page names /pause-memory.
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v2.1.286
/pause-memory can describe pausing account memory as well as local auto-memory
The /pause-memory command can now describe pausing both account memory and local auto-memory, and the rule for when it is hidden changed
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v2.1.285
Claude Code can now load memories saved to your account
Before a turn, Claude Code can now load relevant memories saved to your account as well as local ones, and /pause-memory stops that too
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v2.1.285
Turning auto-memory off is now tracked per session and may carry over
Claude Code now tracks auto-memory being off for a session and adds a notice that memory is still paused from earlier
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v2.1.285
Paused memory message now says only you can turn it back on
When memory is paused, Claude is told the pause lasts for the session and only the user can resume it, with no mention of /pause-memory
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v2.1.285
/pause-memorymay now be hidden in some sessions/pause-memorynow shows only in some sessions, and its message says whether memory can be turned back onfound in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.281
/pause-memory resume message has an empty override slot
Resuming memory with /pause-memory always shows the standard "Memory resumed" message
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v2.1.281
Reading memory files while memory is paused: the deny check now uses the resolved path
Reading memory files while memory is paused is now blocked based on the file's actual resolved location
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v2.1.280
Memory-paused remedy mapping added
Claude Code now maps a paused-memory state to a specific 'memory_paused' remedy internally
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v2.1.275
New closed-set
decision_reason_codefield on permission decisionsNew decision_reason_code field distinguishes specific reasons behind a permission decision
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v2.1.248
Memory writes are refused with a pointer to the resume command
Memory writes while automemory is paused now tell you the command to resume it.
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v2.1.187
/pause-memoryreplaces/toggle-memoryfound in this entry's text
First cited
3The earliest release whose published evidence quoted /pause-memory was v2.1.248, 27 Aug 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
Presence across releases
0The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the slash command does. All slash commands.