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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

Transient RULE_ERROR Open

Area - Rules Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1351 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 17, 2019
Warn against unicode characters Open

Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1350 · 10 comments · Opened Oct 12, 2019
Ability for script exclusions for PSUseCompatible* rules Open

Area - Configuration Consider - 2.0 Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1347 · Opened Sep 26, 2019
Automatically split | characters to a new line Open

Issue - New Rule

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1345 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2019
Suppressing a custom rule works in VSCode, but not from the commandline Open

Area - Configuration

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1344 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 18, 2019
Enable composition of profiles (like to add large module libraries, e.g. Az) Open

Area - Rule Sets Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1339 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 13, 2019
Test for and provide recommendation for resolution when $ErrorActionPreference = Break is found in script Open

Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1334 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 11, 2019
Enable enforcing consistent casing Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1332 · 2 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Sep 10, 2019
Member within filter incorrectly marked as alias for Get-Member Open

Area - Documentation

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1325 · 13 comments · Opened Aug 29, 2019
PSUseConsistentWhitespace - False validation in switch statements Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1319 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2019
PipelineIndentation: when not set to NoIndentation: does not cater for case where line continuation token is used instead of pipeline (->missing indentation) Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1317 · Opened Aug 21, 2019
Format indention of multiline statements Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1315 · 12 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2019
Necessary updates for the new ternary operator added in PowerShell language Open

Area - Engine Issue - New Rule

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1314 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 19, 2019
Rule `PSAvoidShouldContinueWithoutForce` doesn't enforce correct use of the `Force` parameter Open

Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1308 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 10, 2019
PSShouldProcess rule ignores ShouldContinue Open

Area - Rules Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1304 · Opened Aug 9, 2019
whitespaceBeforeOpenParen does not add a space between param and paren Open

Issue - Question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1303 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 8, 2019
Global variables are erroneously reported as "never used" Open

Area - PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1300 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 31, 2019
Add new rule to catch syntax error e.g. "elif" instead of "elseif" Open

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

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1299 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 30, 2019
PSUseConsistentWhitespace for Pester tests and 'Should Throw' Open

Area - Formatter

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1298 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 28, 2019
Offer test result output for CI Open

Area - Build Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1296 · 3 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Jul 25, 2019
SuppressMessageAttribute is not recognized by PSA with "using namespace" import Open

Area - Engine Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1295 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 23, 2019
PSUseOutputTypeCorrectly: Fails when using multiple output types Open

Area - Rules Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1289 · Opened Jul 12, 2019
Invoke-Formatter: Adding whitespace after opening parenthesis Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1288 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 12, 2019
Update/standardize the internal custom `VariableAnalysis` classes Open

Area - Engine Consider - 2.0 Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1283 · Opened Jul 7, 2019
Formatter rules list is hard-coded Open

Area - Formatter Consider - 2.0 Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1282 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 7, 2019
[RULE] PSScriptAnalyzerSettingsSchema Open

Area - Configuration Area - Engine Consider - 2.0 Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1279 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jun 30, 2019
Improve test coverage for `Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer -Settings` argument validation Open

Area - Engine Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1278 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 30, 2019
[refactor] [style] Simplify all `string.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, format, args)` to `string.Format(format, args)` Open

Area - Engine Area - Formatter Consider - 2.0 Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1274 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 23, 2019
Enforce presence of '$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"' Open

Issue - New Rule

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1271 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 22, 2019
Intellisense for "settings" files Open

Consider - 2.0 Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1254 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 6, 2019
unary operators not getting spaced Open

Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1239 · 12 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 10, 2019
formatting unavailable inside interpolated subexpression Open

Area - Formatter Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1238 · 1 comment · Opened May 10, 2019
New Rule Suggestion: Validate ps1xml Schema Open

Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1234 · Opened May 3, 2019
Settings file needs to have a exclude / ignore mechanism Open

Area - Configuration Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1230 · 5 comments · 9 reactions · Opened May 1, 2019
Revise semantics of compatibility rule profile inclusion Open

Area - Configuration Area - Engine Consider - 2.0 Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1224 · Opened Apr 23, 2019
WithSpaceAroundPipe and WhitespaceInsideBrace enabled together with Pipelineindentation.NoIndentation do not always correct Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1213 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 11, 2019
Feature request: Line breaks after separators in code formatting Open

Area - Formatter Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1203 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 2, 2019
UseCompatibleCommands should recognise partial parameter matches Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1201 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 29, 2019
"Reserved prefixes" rule Open

Issue - New Rule Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1198 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 27, 2019
Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer -Recurse taking forever (60+ seconds) to finish Open

Area - Engine Area - Performance

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1189 · 16 comments · Opened Mar 23, 2019
Indentation inconsistent when using more than 1 line continuation Open

Area - Formatter Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1184 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 22, 2019
New Rule Suggestion: PSAvoidShorteningParameterNames Open

Area - Rules Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1173 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Mar 13, 2019
Formatting .where and .foreach methods is incorrect Open

Area - Formatter

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1168 · 18 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 8, 2019
Weird rule violation when using a file path Open

Area - Rules Issue - Bug Need Repro Info

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1167 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 7, 2019
Cmdlets that run in current scope (like ForEach-Object) not accounted for by PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments Open

Area - Engine Area - PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1163 · 9 comments · 13 reactions · Opened Mar 4, 2019
Add native command checking in UseCompatibleCommands Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1157 · Opened Mar 1, 2019
Add a test for copyright headers for CI Open

Area - Build Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1155 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 28, 2019
Migrate away from MEF for loading DLLs in Windows PowerShell Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1154 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 28, 2019
Add arity check to type compatibility method checking Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1153 · Opened Feb 27, 2019
Track cmdlet parameter attributes in UseCompatibleCommands, check ValidateSet and enum parameters Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1152 · Opened Feb 27, 2019

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