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Dominant language: C#
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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402 open issues indexed

Stack overflow analyzing script snippets Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2056 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 6, 2025
`PSUseCompatibleCmdlets` says `Install-Module` is not compatible with `desktop-5.1.14393.206-windows` Open

Issue - Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2052 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 14, 2025
Install-Module for PSScriptAnalyzer Occasionally failing for version 1.23.0 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2051 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 13, 2025
Ability to bind concerned PowerShell version to a rule Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2050 · Opened Dec 17, 2024
Function-Based Custom Rule with "Error" Severity Doesn’t Show Under -Severity Error Open

Issue - Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2049 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 16, 2024
`PSPossibleIncorrectUsageOfAssignmentOperator` fires when assigning value inside `if($())` Open

Resolution - By Design

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2048 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 11, 2024
Unable to run rules with hashtable that run fine with settings file Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2047 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 6, 2024
Rule request: `AvoidNewObjectCmdlet` Open

Up for Grabs

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PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2046 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 6, 2024
psusecompatibleSyntax goes a bit too far. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2041 · 7 comments · Opened Nov 1, 2024
Suppression with `SuppressMessageAttribute` is completely broken for variables Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2040 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 31, 2024
Add rule for tracking all the conventional comments in code like FIXME, TODO, HACK Open

Issue - New Rule Issue-Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2039 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 22, 2024
Add rule for unused namespaces Open

Issue - New Rule Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2026 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 29, 2024
Rule Request: UseCompatibleStrings Open

Issue - New Rule Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2015 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 22, 2024
Rule request: PossibleArgumentWithOperatorConfusion Open

Issue - New Rule Issue-Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2014 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 16, 2024
Auto Correct Aliases incorrectly expands DSC resources name thinking its an alias of a cmdlet Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2025 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 5, 2024
Add rules for Named/Positional Parameter use on object creation Open

Issue - New Rule Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2006 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 2, 2024
When a line ends in an operator, automatically indent the next line since it is part of the same code statement Open

Area - Formatter Area-Code Formatting Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#2003 · 1 comment · Opened May 23, 2024
Rule request: Use Ascii Open

Issue - Discussion Issue - New Rule Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1999 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 30, 2024
Rule request: `AvoidSecureStringDisclosure` Open

Issue - New Rule Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1997 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 24, 2024
add warning or error when using bigint with floating point types Open

Issue - New Rule Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1991 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 6, 2024
Proposal: Signal invalid syntax in switch statement condition Open

Issue - Enhancement Issue - New Rule

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1977 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 4, 2024
Indentation breaks using anything other than pipelineIndentationStyle: None using a second pipe within parenthesis Open

Area - Formatter Issue-Bug Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1976 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 27, 2024
Add a pre-commit hook for psscriptanalyzer Open

Issue - Question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1969 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 22, 2024
Invoke-Formatter - Custom rules? Open

Needs-Investigation Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1957 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 16, 2024
Rule request: `Get-Content x | ConvertFrom-Json` should suggest adding `-raw` for `Get-content` Open

Issue - Enhancement Issue - New Rule Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1951 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 23, 2023
Accept `-Fix` for `-ScriptDefinition` Open

Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1938 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 29, 2023
Accept `[ScriptBlock]` for `-ScriptDefinition` Open

Issue - Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1937 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 29, 2023
Rule request: Avoid enclosing strings with smart quotes Open

Issue - Discussion

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1936 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 29, 2023
Rule request: Avoid using the Assignment by Addition Operator (`+=`) to build a string Open

Issue - Discussion

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1935 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2023
Rule request: Prefix parameters with an unambiguous (ASCII) hyphen-minus Open

Issue - Discussion

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1932 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 16, 2023
Parameter Help auto generation in PowerShell Functions Open

Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1931 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 20, 2023
[Repost] PSUseProcessBlockForPipelineCommand does not recognize use of $input within an End block Open

Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1915 · 1 comment · Opened May 17, 2023
'OperatingSystem' is implicitly aliasing 'Get-OperatingSystem' Open

Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1907 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 6, 2023
Array indent style (code formatting) Open

Issue-Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1904 · 6 reactions · Opened Mar 15, 2023
Flag usage of >< etc when -gt, -lt, etc should be used Open

Issue-Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1900 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 6, 2023
AvoidUsingPositionalParameters is flagging simple "echo"s Open

Area - Rules Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1899 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 3, 2023
Support EditorConfig format settings Open

Area - Configuration Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1898 · 6 reactions · Opened Mar 1, 2023
Rule for unused rule suppressions Open

Area - Rules Issue-Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1894 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 21, 2023
SupportsShouldProcess doesn't care for WhatIfPreference Open

Resolution - By Design

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1892 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 19, 2023
Private parameters are reported as unused Open

Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1891 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 16, 2023
Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer required Path parameter Open

Area - Engine Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1887 · 7 comments · Opened Feb 6, 2023
Any variable containing the word "credit" triggers PSAvoidUsingPlainTextForPassword Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1886 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 31, 2023
Enabling PSUseCorrectCasing causes error while processing code that doesn't violate it Open

Issue - Bug Need Repro Info

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1881 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 11, 2023
Get-ScriptAnalyzerRule throws exception despite common parameter '-ErrorAction SilentlyContinue' is defined Open

Issue-Bug

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1876 · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 16, 2022
Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Open

Area - Engine Issue - Discussion Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1867 · 18 comments · Opened Dec 2, 2022
`SuppressMessageAttribute` not working for ScriptBlock params Open

Area - Rule Sets Issue - Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1861 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 9, 2022
Missing line number in rule PSUseBOMForUnicodeEncodedFile Open

Area - Rules Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1859 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 7, 2022
`invoke-scriptanalyzer -fix -Confirm` should be more specific Open

Area - Engine Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1854 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 26, 2022
Lines unaffected from sytax errors get formatted wrong on PowerShell 5 Open

Area - Formatter Issue-Bug Up for Grabs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1813 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 24, 2022
Every time we analyze a '.ps1' file with custom rules, we need to import module once again. Open

Issue - Question

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PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1798 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 7, 2022

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