# Prepare an account-wide pause with previews only

> Tier: recipe. Operating recipe: real tool sequence, core rules, known traps.

Every active campaign's pause previewed and listed, nothing applied: the emergency brake, cocked but not fired.

**Intent.** The full stop, staged as Safe Write previews, ready for one human yes.

## When to use

- Brand incidents.
- Payment or legal emergencies.
- Site down.

## When not to use

- Casual use: a freeze destroys learning everywhere; this is the fire axe.

## Sources

Required: any connected source

## Preconditions

- The account is ticked in the dashboard, confirmed via list_accounts.

## Inputs

- `window`: Analysis window. Default: last 30 days.

## Procedure

1. List everything active across platforms. — tools: `google_ads_get_campaigns`, `meta_get_campaigns`, `tiktok_get_campaigns`, `pinterest_get_account_entities`
2. Preview the pauses platform by platform, apply nothing. — tools: `google_ads_update_campaign_status`, `meta_update_campaign_status`, `tiktok_update_campaign_status`, `pinterest_update_campaign_status`
3. Hand the human one list: what stops, where, in one confirmation each.

## Decision rules

- **When** The human confirms → **conclude** Apply in dependency order and re-read statuses as proof: a freeze that half-executed is worse than none.

## Evidence requirements

- Every figure carries its account, metric and window.
- Anything below a readable sample size is reported as unjudged, not as zero.

## Human approval boundary

- Nothing stops until a human confirms each platform's batch: the skill stages, people decide.
- Un-freezing is its own reviewed operation, not an automatic follow-up.

## Failure modes

- Paused is not invisible: scheduled campaigns can reactivate; check schedules in the same pass.

## Output

- **Readout**: The figures, with windows and accounts named.
- **Flags**: What deserves a deeper skill or a human decision.

## Related

- Skill: [budget-reallocation](https://www.getmcpads.com/skills/budget-reallocation.md)