# Create pause URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/agent/post-agent-sessions-by-id-pause > Asks a running session to pause. `POST /v1/agent/sessions/{id}/pause` > [Agent →](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/agent) · [All API references →](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi) · [Get started →](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/guides) | | | | ------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | | **Address** | `https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/agent/sessions/{id}/pause` | | **Method** | `POST` | | **Operation** | `post_agent_sessions_by_id_pause` | | **Auth** | `Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY` | Asks a running session to pause. Recorded durably, and forwarded to the durable-execution engine when the session is task-backed. A chat turn's run is paused where it runs: it stops, the session stays live as `paused`, and its sandbox is PARKED — the pod stops and every file stays, with nothing billed for compute — until a resume picks it up. ## Request 4 fields, body `application/json` (required). | Field | In | Type | Required | Description | | --------- | ---- | ------ | -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `id` | path | string | yes | ID is the session to steer, from the path. | | `id` | body | string | — | ID is the session to steer, from the path. | | `message` | body | string | — | Message is free text for the running agent, up to 16 KiB. | | `payload` | body | any | — | Payload is a structured argument for the command: any valid JSON up to 64 KiB, scanned for credentials before it is stored (a hit refuses the command with 422 and the findings). | ## Response | Status | Body | Meaning | | --------- | ------------------- | ------- | | `200` | agent.controlResult | ok | | `default` | problem-details | refused | `200` body — 11 fields. | Field | In | Type | Always | Description | | ----------------- | ---- | --------------- | ------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `command` | body | string | — | Command is the verb that was recorded: pause, resume, stop or message. | | `event` | body | agent.eventView | — | | | `event.actor` | body | string | — | Actor is who produced the turn. | | `event.createdAt` | body | string | — | CreatedAt is when the turn was recorded, RFC 3339 in UTC to the second. | | `event.id` | body | string | — | ID is the event's own handle, minted as "evt\_" + 32 hex characters. | | `event.kind` | body | string | — | Kind is what the turn IS, from a closed six: message (a model turn), tool-call, spawn (a subagent started), log, status, control (a steering command the running surface consumes). | | `event.payload` | body | any | — | Payload is the turn's body, embedded as JSON rather than as a string — whatever the writer sent, up to 64 KiB, checked for well-formedness and scanned for credentials before it was stored. | | `event.seq` | body | integer (int64) | — | Seq is the turn's position in this session's log: monotonic from 1, assigned by the store inside the insert, and unique PER SESSION rather than globally. | | `event.sessionId` | body | string | — | SessionID is the session this turn belongs to. | | `forwarded` | body | boolean | — | Forwarded is whether the command also reached the durable-execution engine. | | `run` | body | string | — | Run is the run a resume started, under the same session. | Failure carries the platform error shape — see [Errors](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/errors). ## Examples **CLI** ```bash hanzo agent sessions pause ``` **SDK** **.ts** ```ts import { Configuration, AgentApi } from 'hanzoai'; const api = new AgentApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY })); const { data } = await api.postAgentSessionsByIdPause({ id: 'id', id: "", message: "" }); ``` **.py** ```python from hanzoai.cloud import ApiClient, Configuration from hanzoai.cloud.api import AgentApi client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"])) result = AgentApi(client).post_agent_sessions_by_id_pause(id='id', id="", message="") ``` **.go** ```go cfg := hanzoai.NewConfiguration() cfg.AddDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY")) client := hanzoai.NewAPIClient(cfg) resp, _, err := client.AgentAPI.PostAgentSessionsByIdPause(context.Background()).Execute() if err != nil { return err } ``` **.rs** ```rust use hanzo_client::apis::{configuration::Configuration, agent_api}; let mut cfg = Configuration::new(); cfg.bearer_access_token = std::env::var("HANZO_API_KEY").ok(); let result = agent_api::post_agent_sessions_by_id_pause(&cfg, Default::default()).await?; ``` **.java** ```java import ai.hanzo.cloud.ApiClient; import ai.hanzo.cloud.api.AgentApi; ApiClient client = new ApiClient(); client.setBearerToken(System.getenv("HANZO_API_KEY")); var result = new AgentApi(client).postAgentSessionsByIdPause(); ``` **HTTP** ```bash curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/agent/sessions//pause \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "id": "", "message": "" }' ``` **MCP** MCP reaches **agent** through the `agent` tool, which names its 38 operations with its own verbs — this one among them, under a name only MCP declares. `describe` explains any of them: ```bash curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/mcp \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "tools/call", "params": { "name": "describe", "arguments": { "op": "list_agents" } } }' ``` --- [Agent API](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/agent) · [All Hanzo APIs](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi) · [Interactive reference](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/reference)