gsd-pause-work

To save your work-in-progress state, you can use a context handoff workflow that generates a detailed `.continue-here.md` file. This file captures your current phase, completed tasks, remaining work, and blockers, ensuring you can resume development seamlessly later.

The best way to pause development and create a checkpoint is to use an automated workflow that gathers your current state and commits your work-in-progress to Git. This provides a clear version control checkpoint alongside a handoff file.

Automated context handoff works by detecting your current project phase and generating a `.continue-here.md` file. This file records decisions made and next steps, allowing you to immediately switch to an urgent task and jump back into development later.

Git is used to commit your work-in-progress state and provide a clear checkpoint. While the primary output is a `.continue-here.md` file with resume instructions, leveraging Git ensures your code changes are version-controlled alongside your saved context.

Yes, you can resume a complex task without losing notes by generating a context handoff file. This file explicitly captures your remaining work, notes, and next steps, allowing you to pick up exactly where you left off without losing data.

The context saving mechanism relies on generating a `.continue-here.md` file and committing to Git. It is designed for pausing and resuming development phases, so it may not capture real-time runtime states or external environment variables outside the project files.