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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

Allow UseCompatibleCommands to ignore whole modules Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1151 · Opened Feb 27, 2019
Add simple configuration for broad targets with compatibility rules Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1150 · Opened Feb 27, 2019
Download compatibility profiles lazily from a remote feed rather than shipping them Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1148 · 4 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Feb 27, 2019
Issue with AvoidUsingPlainTextForPassword Open

Area - Rules

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1147 · 7 comments · Opened Feb 26, 2019
Write-Host should be closed within the scope it was created in, unless it is a Async command type Open

Issue - New Rule

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1142 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 20, 2019
Code Formatting: Whitespacing ValidateSet Open

Area - Formatter Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1125 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 12, 2019
Sugguest native (PowerShell) command alternatives to CMD/Unix commands Open

Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1124 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 11, 2019
Format Document with Hash Table entry on first line stopping all formatting in file Open

Area - Formatter

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1120 · Opened Dec 27, 2018
Should Write-Host still be avoided? Open

Area - Documentation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1118 · 16 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Dec 26, 2018
Code Formatting : Whitespacing one line hashtable Open

Area - Rules Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1113 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 19, 2018
Format document converting timestamp within single quotes Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1110 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 14, 2018
Show documentation on custom rules Open

Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1106 · 17 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 10, 2018
Check for platform-dependent path usage Open

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

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1093 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 5, 2018
formatting partial / dot sourced ps1 dsc scripts Open

Area - Formatter

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1081 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 15, 2018
PSShouldProcess Rule and module specific adaption Open

Area - Configuration Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1078 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 5, 2018
New Rule: Calling Start-Process without checking ExitCode Open

Issue - New Rule

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1062 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 31, 2018
Invoke-Formatter: Tab Issue Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Bug

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1055 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 16, 2018
Documentation for AvoidTrailingWhitespace shouldn't use bad practices for reasoning Open

Area - Documentation Issue - Discussion

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1034 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 11, 2018
PSAvoidTrailingWhitespace should ignore empty lines indented to match the current block Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1033 · 18 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Jul 11, 2018
Function 'GetCommandInfo' does not add CommandInfo to cache Open

Area - Rules Issue - Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1030 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 28, 2018
Align groups of assignments (=) Open

Area - Formatter Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1029 · 14 comments · 13 reactions · Opened Jun 27, 2018
PSAvoidAssignmentToAutomaticVariable Should detect auto-vars as function parameters Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1026 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 15, 2018
Setting file keys are not matching cmdlet parameters exactly Open

Area - Documentation Area - Engine Area - Rules Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1025 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 14, 2018
A rule to warn overwriting of built-in PowerShell cmdlets Open

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

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1023 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 13, 2018
Start using PowerShell Standard 3 Open

Area - Build Consider - 2.0 Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1022 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 12, 2018
Partial Parameter Name give confusing message Open

Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#1016 · Opened Jun 5, 2018
Check whether a module references itself in 'NestedModules' field in the .psd1 file Open

Issue - Enhancement Issue - New Rule

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#997 · Opened May 10, 2018
MS Internal - VSTS build scripts will need changing Open

Area - Build not ready

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#993 · 1 assignee · Opened May 8, 2018
PSSA should be crossgen'd Open

Area - Build

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#991 · 3 comments · Opened May 8, 2018
Integrate Injection Hunter with PSSA Open

Area - Rules Consider - 2.0 Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#989 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 7, 2018
New Rule: Detect common Unicode character substitutions. Open

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

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#981 · 6 comments · 4 reactions · Opened May 3, 2018
Parallelize rules if possible Open

Area - Engine Area - Performance Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#976 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 24, 2018
Index out of range Error for ScriptDefinition '$a=1' on pwsh 6.1.0.-preview.1 only Open

Area - Rules Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#973 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 19, 2018
Being able to run tests by setting $PsModulePath instead of XCopy to one of those folders Open

Area - Build

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#965 · Opened Apr 8, 2018
System.InvalidOperationException from Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer command when debugging PSES Open

Issue - Concurrency

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#959 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2018
AvoidUsingPositionalParameters : rule is triggered only for the built-in functions Open

Area - Rules Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#955 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 31, 2018
Enhance PSUseConsistentWhiteSpace to exclude more special cases when using unary operators Open

Area - Formatter Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#950 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 28, 2018
PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments is not aware of Pester's scoping Open

Area - PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#946 · 9 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Mar 25, 2018
PSShouldProcess behavior allows for unsafe code to pass where it should fail Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#945 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 24, 2018
Investigate/Fix test failure on PowerShell Core Open

Area - Build Area - Rules

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#944 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 23, 2018
PSPossibleIncorrectComparisonWithNull fails to work with typecasted variables Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#943 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 22, 2018
PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments is not aware of the scriptblock context (invocation or dot-sourcing) Open

Area - PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments Area - Rules

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#938 · 1 comment · 7 reactions · Opened Mar 15, 2018
Should the 'Microsoft.Windows.PowerShell.ScriptAnalyzer' namespace/assembly names be renamed to 'Microsoft.PowerShell.ScriptAnalyzer' ? Open

Area - Build Consider - 2.0 Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#920 · 8 comments · Opened Mar 3, 2018
Compiler warning in UseCompatibleCmdlets class due unfinished feature with # if DEBUG pragma -> consider removal to allow us to use the /warnaserror compiler option Open

Area - Build Up-for-Grabs

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#913 · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 28, 2018
New Rule Suggestion / Rule amendment - in response to #903 Open

Issue - Discussion Issue - New Rule

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#904 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 21, 2018
PSAvoidUsingCmdletAliases triggers on GherkinStep Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#896 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 19, 2018
WIP: Roadmap for script analyzer Open

Area - Build in progress

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#886 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 12, 2018
Internal: Build/Release inconsistencies compared to PowerShell Core repo Open

Area - Build

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#871 · Opened Feb 5, 2018
Consider publishing pre-releases Open

Area - Build Issue - Discussion

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#861 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 31, 2018
Need rule which catches assignments to powershell builtin variables Open

Issue - New Rule

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#858 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 26, 2018

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