Pausing a thunk stops all of its AI work at once. Use it when you need the thunk to stop acting — for example while you investigate unexpected behavior, make a large change, or wait on something outside Thunk.AI — and then restart it when you are ready.
While a thunk is paused, no AI work happens: in-progress agent work stops, and no new work starts. People can still open the thunk and see its work items; the thunk simply does not act until you restart it.
Pause or restart a thunk
Open your thunk.
In the left navigation, open Monitor.
Open the Pause / Restart tab.
A status chip shows whether the thunk is currently Live or Paused.
Select Pause to stop the thunk, or Unpause to restart it.
When a thunk is paused, a This Thunk has been paused. banner appears across the app so everyone working in the thunk knows why it is not acting.
Who can pause a thunk
Only a thunk admin (including the owner) can pause or restart a thunk. Everyone can see the Live / Paused status, but the button to change it appears only for admins. For more on thunk roles, see Users and access controls.
Pausing the whole thunk versus pausing one step
Pausing from the Pause / Restart tab stops the entire thunk. This is different from an agent pausing on a single step — for example when a step is set to pause for a person to answer, or the agent asks a question and waits for a reply. Those stops affect one work item's step, not the whole thunk. To learn how an agent stops or waits on an individual step, see How an AI agent ends a run.