disconnect

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Disconnect this session from Pad's push stream — stop receiving pushes for the rest of this session

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the disconnect skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by perpetualsoftware/pad in plugin/skills/disconnect/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

/pad:disconnect withdraws THIS session's consent to receive pad push notifications. It holds for the rest of the session even if the repo opted in via .pad.toml push.auto_arm — a disconnect must not be a lie.

If the pad CLI is missing (command not found), say so and point at https://getpad.dev/install. Otherwise ALWAYS run the disarm — do NOT gate it on finding a .pad.toml. Consent is scoped to this SESSION (keyed by the session, not the workspace), so a session that connected in one repo must be able to disconnect from anywhere, including a directory with no linked workspace; refusing to disarm there would leave it receiving pushes.

Steps:

  1. Run pad session disarm. This writes a session-scoped explicit-off marker (it does not delete config), so the session stops accepting pushes now and stays that way for its remaining life. It works regardless of the current directory's workspace.

  2. Tell the user they're disconnected. If the command reported that the repo has auto_arm on, add the honest caveat: this session is disconnected, but a NEW session in this repo will connect again — to turn that off permanently, remove push.auto_arm from .pad.toml (the same deliberate edit that turned it on).

Note: the monitor re-checks consent every couple of seconds and drops the open stream when it sees the disarm, so delivery stops within a brief window rather than lingering. Run /pad:status to confirm the state.

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