Manual hold on one enrollment: active or waiting to paused_manual; the dispatcher skips paused records, so nothing is sent until resume. Open tasks freeze in place. A repeat on paused_manual answers already_paused true. Pausing a paused_on_reply record is 409 invalid_transition (the reply hold is the reply flow's); a row the person gate holds is 409 too, exit is its one verb; terminal is 409. reason (max 512) lands in the event payload only.

Contract:

• MCP tool pause_workflow_record, registry package mcp.playtables/workflow_records, mount playtables.journeys.
• Operation action, response envelope action.
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