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Pause and resume

A ready-to-run example is available here.

Pausing execution​

Pause the agent from another thread or after a delay using conversation.pause(), and Resume the paused conversation after performing operations by calling conversation.run() again.

import time
thread = threading.Thread(target=conversation.run)
thread.start()

print("Letting agent work for 5 seconds...")
time.sleep(5)

print("Pausing the agent...")
conversation.pause()

print("Waiting for 5 seconds...")
time.sleep(5)

print("Resuming the execution...")
conversation.run()

Ready-to-run example​

Pause agent execution mid-task by calling conversation.pause():

import os
import threading
import time

from pydantic import SecretStr

from faheemcode.sdk import (
    LLM,
    Agent,
    Conversation,
)
from faheemcode.sdk.tool import Tool
from faheemcode.tools.file_editor import FileEditorTool
from faheemcode.tools.terminal import TerminalTool

# Configure LLM
api_key = os.getenv("LLM_API_KEY")
assert api_key is not None, "LLM_API_KEY environment variable is not set."
model = os.getenv("LLM_MODEL", "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929")
base_url = os.getenv("LLM_BASE_URL")
llm = LLM(
    usage_id="agent",
    model=model,
    base_url=base_url,
    api_key=SecretStr(api_key),
)

# Tools
tools = [
    Tool(
        name=TerminalTool.name,
    ),
    Tool(name=FileEditorTool.name),
]

# Agent
agent = Agent(llm=llm, tools=tools)
conversation = Conversation(agent, workspace=os.getcwd())

print("=" * 60)
print("Pause and Continue Example")
print("=" * 60)
print()

# Phase 1: Start a long-running task
print("Phase 1: Starting agent with a task...")
conversation.send_message(
    "Create a file called countdown.txt and write numbers from 100 down to 1, "
    "one number per line. After you finish, summarize what you did."
)

print(f"Initial status: {conversation.state.execution_status}")
print()

# Start the agent in a background thread
thread = threading.Thread(target=conversation.run)
thread.start()

# Let the agent work for a few seconds
print("Letting agent work for 2 seconds...")
time.sleep(2)

# Phase 2: Pause the agent
print()
print("Phase 2: Pausing the agent...")
conversation.pause()

# Wait for the thread to finish (it will stop when paused)
thread.join()

print(f"Agent status after pause: {conversation.state.execution_status}")
print()

# Phase 3: Send a new message while paused
print("Phase 3: Sending a new message while agent is paused...")
conversation.send_message(
    "Actually, stop working on countdown.txt. Instead, create a file called "
    "hello.txt with just the text 'Hello, World!' in it."
)
print()

# Phase 4: Resume the agent with .run()
print("Phase 4: Resuming agent with .run()...")
print(f"Status before resume: {conversation.state.execution_status}")

# Resume execution
conversation.run()

print(f"Final status: {conversation.state.execution_status}")

# Report cost
cost = llm.metrics.accumulated_cost
print(f"EXAMPLE_COST: {cost}")

You can run the example code as-is.

Bring your own provider key
export LLM_API_KEY="your-api-key"
export LLM_MODEL="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929"  # or openai/gpt-4o, etc.
cd software-agent-sdk
uv run python examples/01_standalone_sdk/09_pause_example.py
Faheem Code Cloud key
# https://app.faheemcode.ai/settings/api-keys
export LLM_API_KEY="example-user-api-key"
export LLM_MODEL="faheemcode/claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929"
cd software-agent-sdk
uv run python examples/01_standalone_sdk/09_pause_example.py

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