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pauseLoop

Pause Loop

Pause a Loop: it stops firing on its cadence but keeps its config, recipe, and run history intact, and can be resumed with startLoop.

write

Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "pause my loop", and it calls pauseLoop.

Example call

The MCP tools/call params, with the required arguments only.

{
  "arguments": {
    "instanceId": "<instanceId>"
  },
  "name": "pauseLoop"
}

Arguments

• instanceIdstringrequiredThe loop instance's id, from listLoops.

Returns

The registry does not declare a return shape.

Ask for it

The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.

• pause my loop
• stop this loop from running for now
• hold off on X

Pair it with

The verbs that finish the job.

• listLoops
• startLoop
• stopLoop

Questions

• What does pauseLoop do?

  Pause a Loop: it stops firing on its cadence but keeps its config, recipe, and run history intact, and can be resumed with startLoop. It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.

• How do I use pauseLoop from Claude or ChatGPT?

  Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "pause my loop", and it calls pauseLoop.

• Is pauseLoop safe to let an AI call?

  pauseLoop changes your workspace. What an AI creates is Private until you share it.

Connect

One endpoint gives your AI this tool and every other one: connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Gemini, read what The Cloud is, or see pricing.