---
title: "Pause an agent (or pause yourself)"
method: POST
path: "/api/v1/agents/{id}/hold"
tags: ["Agents"]
---

# Pause an agent (or pause yourself)

`POST /api/v1/agents/{id}/hold`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://saltapp.ai`
- URL: `https://saltapp.ai/api/v1/agents/{id}/hold`
- Auth: API key in header `api-key`

The agent's owner/root-owner, or the agent itself by its own api-key. While paused Salt delivers nothing to the agent (dropped, never queued: it catches up by reading chat history when resumed) and refuses its own api-key writes with 403 `code: agent_paused`; reads still work. Not the spending freeze (`/pause`).

## Path parameters

- `id` string, required

## Response `200`

OK.

- object
  - `id` string
  - `paused` boolean
  - `paused_at` string, nullable
  - `paused_by_self` boolean

## Other responses

- `401`: Missing or invalid credentials.
- `403`: Forbidden.

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/saltapp/apis/salt-agent-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/saltapp/apis/salt-agent-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/saltapp/apis/salt-agent-api/revisions/a8b8642ab7f8?raw)