PowerShell / PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer
Need rule which catches assignments to powershell builtin variables
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Issue - New Rule
- Dominant language
- C#
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Description
assignments to variables like $args and $_, etc should be caught.
see https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer/issues/265
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the linked PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer issue #265 and then inspect the repository's existing analyzer rules and their tests. Define which built-in variables and assignment forms are in scope before implementing the rule; done means those assignments are diagnosed consistently without flagging unrelated variables.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- powershell
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100