Chameleon Pause 15m

/chameleon-pause-15m

Pause chameleon's advisory injections for exactly 15 minutes. Auto-resumes after the timer expires. Use when latency is unwelcome for a short focused window (e.g., live coding, code review walkthrough, demo).

When to use

• User is presenting / demoing and wants minimal hook latency
• User is doing rapid scratch experimentation in a TS repo
• User wants to compare AI output with vs without chameleon active over a short window
• Frustration detected → callout-detector hook surfaces this as a less-permanent option than /chameleon-disable

When NOT to use

• The frustration is about pattern advice quality → /chameleon-teach to capture the missed pattern
• The frustration is about session-long latency → /chameleon-disable (session-scope) or check /chameleon-status --health

The flow

1. Call chameleon-mcp::pause_session(repo=<repo_root>, minutes=15).
2. The tool writes ${PLUGIN_DATA}/<repo_id>/.pause_until with the ISO 8601 expiry.
3. PreToolUse hook checks .pause_until:
   • If file missing or expired → inject normally (auto-cleans expired markers)
   • If timestamp in future → skip injection
4. Confirm to user: "chameleon paused for 15 minutes (until ). Will auto-resume."

Opt-out hierarchy

See chameleon-disable skill for the full hierarchy. pause-15m is the most-temporary option.

Implementation status

Hook integration is wired: preflight-and-advise calls is_chameleon_suppressed before injecting, which honors .pause_until (auto-expires), .session_disabled.<session_id>, CHAMELEON_DISABLE=1, and .chameleon/.skip.

Future variants

If 15m is the wrong duration for some users, future versions may add /chameleon-pause-1h and /chameleon-pause-until-restart. The pause_session MCP tool already accepts a minutes arg up to 240 (4 hours).