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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 issues indexed so far

Option to indent code in a #region Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1792 · 4 comments · 7 reactions · Opened May 12, 2022
Whitespace removed when "Code Formatting: Whitespace Around Operator" Enabled Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1778 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 1, 2022
"Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer : The network path was not found" run time error thrown by PSSA Open

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1771 · 9 comments · Opened Feb 7, 2022
PSUseOutputTypeCorrectly complains "... type is not declared in the OutputType attribute" even though it is Open

Area - Rules Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1765 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 22, 2022
Allow Invoke-Formatter to be pipable Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1761 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 17, 2022
Rule Idea: Pipeline Type Checking against Output Open

Issue - Discussion

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1760 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 14, 2022
Heads up: (compatibility) rule for dictionary keys IList interface Open

Area - CompatibilityRules Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1759 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 7, 2022
Normalisation of new lines after pipes in expressions with 2 or more pipes Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1755 · Opened Dec 16, 2021
Formatter doesn't indent bracketed multi-line arguments correctly Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Bug Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1748 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 15, 2021
PSPossibleIncorrectComparisonWithNull not checked inside DSC Configurations Open

Area - Configuration Area - DSC Issue - Bug Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1745 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 12, 2021
Add a rule to alert `catch [RuntimeException] { ... }` Open

Up-for-Grabs

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1744 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 12, 2021
-Fix adding UTF-8 BOM to files Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Bug Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1743 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 11, 2021
PSUseConsistentWhitespace CheckInnerBrace - false positive on hashtable closing brace Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Bug

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1742 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 11, 2021
Add Get-ScriptAnalyzerSetting cmdlet to generalize a way of displaying collections of rules Open

Area - Configuration Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1740 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 8, 2021
Windows should not be a plural noun Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1736 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 27, 2021
Report when multiple values are returned from a function implicitly Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1728 · 3 reactions · Opened Oct 7, 2021
Parameters that accept wildcards do not have the SupportsWildcards attribute Open

Area - Engine Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1727 · Opened Oct 7, 2021
UseProcessBlockForPipelineCommand returns a warning when pipeline behavior is explicitly disabled Open

Area - Rules Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1725 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 6, 2021
Analyzer for Type Reassignment in `foreach` Loop Open

Area - Rules Issue - New Rule Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1710 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 23, 2021
UseCorrectCasing gets NullReferenceException from CommandInfo.get_Parameters Open

Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1708 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 23, 2021
Formatting fails to pretty print a bad formatted document Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1709 · Opened Aug 23, 2021
Rule request: Warning if `Set`/`Get-Variable` is invoked with only the basic `-Name`/`-Value` parameters Open

Area - Rules Issue - New Rule Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1706 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 19, 2021
PowerShell code formatting doesn't work as expected in VSCode Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Bug Need Repro Info

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1689 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 24, 2021
Format Rule Request: -not vs ! Open

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

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1688 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 22, 2021
Bring back deprecated rules Open

API Proposal Area - Engine Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1683 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 9, 2021
Format doesn't work for comma `,` separated parameters Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1684 · Opened Jun 8, 2021
Formatting the PowerShell script removes necessary pipe operator `|` Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1685 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 8, 2021
Rule Idea: Wait-Debugger Warning Open

Area - Rules Issue - New Rule Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1682 · 2 reactions · Opened May 26, 2021
feature request for formatting rule to have an empty line after brace Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1679 · 2 comments · Opened May 15, 2021
Add rules for whether a script works under ConstrainedLanguage mode Open

Area - Rule Sets Issue - Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1677 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 29, 2021
Variables, defined with "-Option AllScope", in Nested Function reports "assigned but never used". Open

Area - PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1669 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 27, 2021
Rule Idea: Warn on `[xml](Get-Content <File>)` pattern Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1667 · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 27, 2021
Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer does not validate suppressed rule names in code Open

Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1666 · Opened Apr 25, 2021
No 'Variable Referenced Before Assignment' Rule? Open

Issue - Discussion

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1660 · 10 comments · Opened Apr 8, 2021
What would be the correct TargetProfile for Ubuntu 20.04 runnin PSCore 7.1.3? Open

Area - CompatibilityRules Area - Documentation Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1657 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 30, 2021
Locally running ./build.ps1 -Tests does not function as docs specify Open

Issue - Bug

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1652 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 23, 2021
Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer -Recurse should show path by default Open

Area - Engine Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1650 · Opened Mar 23, 2021
Formatting Issue, example included Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1647 · 10 comments · Opened Mar 10, 2021
[Meta issue] PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments presents false positives Open

Area - PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments Issue - Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1641 · 8 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 10, 2021
PSUseCmdletCorrectly breaks on Write-Verbose -Verbose Open

Area - Rules Issue - Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1624 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 7, 2021
Powershell Code Formatter Removing Text From Lines Open

Area - Formatter

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1655 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 3, 2021
PSPlaceCloseBrace can't handle empty lines Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1616 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 17, 2020
Rule severity vs diagnostic severity Open

API Proposal Consider - 2.0 Issue - Discussion

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1611 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 3, 2020
UseConsistentWhitespace rule CheckOperator behavior is inconsistent across PowerShell versions & not well defined Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1606 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 26, 2020
Unable to suppress PSAvoidLongLines warning in a method Open

Area - Rules Issue - Bug Up-for-Grabs

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1591 · 12 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 5, 2020
Rule Idea: .NET Constructor Auto Document/Align Open

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

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1587 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 14, 2020
Add support for space handling after opening and before closing non-empty parenthesis/brackets/braces. Open

Area - Configuration Area - Formatter Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1583 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 8, 2020
Should SuppressAzurePowerShellBreakingChangeWarnings throw UseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments by default? Open

Area - Configuration Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1579 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 31, 2020
Incorrectly formats an array passed to a parameter when backtick is used to separate parameters Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1570 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2020
AvoidUsingPlainTextForPassword docs do not cover all checked parameter names Open

Area - Documentation Area - Rules Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1565 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 6, 2020

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