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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

Feature request: Mark specific lines or blocks to ignore for specific rules Open

Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#849 · 25 comments · 49 reactions · Opened Jan 18, 2018
AzureRM.* modules held in use by PSSA when Cluster 0.0.0.1 is scanned, prevents uninstall Open

Area - Engine Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#841 · 22 comments · Opened Dec 6, 2017
psdscuseidenticalmandatoryparametersfordsc errors Open

Area - Rules Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#834 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 30, 2017
Should have a rule that verifies that scripts are securely signed Open

Issue - Enhancement Issue - New Rule

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#830 · Opened Nov 14, 2017
Script analyzer warns about unused variables when variable is used in Invoke-Command Open

Area - PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#825 · Opened Oct 24, 2017
Suppressing PSAvoidGlobalVars for a single variable Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#822 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 20, 2017
Module exported variables should not be flagged with PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignment Open

Area - PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments Area - Rules

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#819 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 19, 2017
Need link to RuleDocumentation with PSSA results Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#816 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 22, 2017
Rule to check presence of DLLs included with Windows PowerShell Open

Area - Rules Issue - New Rule

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#814 · Opened Aug 16, 2017
UseBOMForUnicodeEncodedFile - Still necessary? Open

Area - Rules Issue - Discussion

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#810 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 11, 2017
Settings param cannot be set to $_ inside of a foreach-object loop Open

Area - Engine in progress Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#807 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 1, 2017
Rule to recommend against Lists when using += with Array objects Open

Area - Rules in progress Issue - New Rule

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#806 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 31, 2017
PSScriptAnalyzer incorrectly scopes variables in begin/process/end scriptblock Open

Area - Rules Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#804 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 29, 2017
Rule to enforce new line after a statement Open

Area - Rules Issue - New Rule

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#794 · Opened Jun 22, 2017
Add Whitesmiths to the indentation style list. Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#793 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 21, 2017
Add ability to inherit settings Open

Area - Engine Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#791 · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 20, 2017
Ensure matching #region and #endregion Open

Area - Rules Issue - New Rule

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#779 · Opened Jun 12, 2017
Add `-Path` parameter to `Invoke-Formatter` Open

Area - Formatter Issue - Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#775 · 19 comments · 22 reactions · Opened Jun 11, 2017
Add check for capitalization for reserved powershell words Open

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

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#767 · 2 comments · 20 reactions · Opened May 30, 2017
Analysis of DSC resource derived from a base class fails Open

Area - DSC Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#766 · 1 reaction · Opened May 24, 2017
Documentation for implementing rules in a .NET assembly Open

Area - Documentation Consider - 2.0 Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#765 · 7 comments · Opened May 23, 2017
PSUseSingularNouns doesn't recognize "Repos" Open

Area - Rules Issue - Enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#751 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 14, 2017
Create a NuGet package from the .NET library Open

Area - Engine Consider - 2.0 Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#747 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 13, 2017
Enable script-based rules to be contributed to the core ruleset Open

Area - Engine Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#743 · 6 comments · 13 reactions · Opened Mar 31, 2017
Rule to ensure that `ConfirmImpact=High` has `Confirm` and `-Force` Open

Issue - New Rule

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#734 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 16, 2017
comparison with null documentation incorrect. Open

Area - Documentation Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#732 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 12, 2017
New function: Show-RuleHelp Open

Issue - Discussion Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#730 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 8, 2017
Feature Request: Version property in DiagnosticRecord object Open

Issue - Discussion

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#726 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 2, 2017
CorrectionExtent should also contain StartOffset/EndOffset Open

Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#723 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 2, 2017
Remove-Module PSScriptAnalyzer leaves behavior of removed module version Open

Issue - Discussion

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#722 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 2, 2017
false positive 'PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments' Open

Area - PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments Area - Rules Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#711 · 18 comments · 11 reactions · Opened Feb 14, 2017
possible bug with PSUseBOMForUnicodeEncodedFile Open

Area - Rules

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#710 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 13, 2017
PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignment not correctly handling global vars assigned to within functions Open

Area - Rules Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#698 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 31, 2017
Improve rule suppression documentation Open

Area - Documentation Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#697 · Opened Jan 31, 2017
Rule Proposal: Warn on dot-sourced function Open

Issue - New Rule

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#696 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 25, 2017
Custom rule is invoked twice for a single script Open

Area - Engine Issue - Discussion

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#689 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 10, 2017
Rule Proposal: Warn if dot-sourced file does not exists Open

Issue - New Rule

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#680 · Opened Dec 7, 2016
PSUseOutputTypeCorrectly is triggered when it shouldn't. Open

Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#676 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Dec 5, 2016
OutputType verification rule doesn't understand > $null Open

Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#674 · Opened Nov 28, 2016
Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer should process files in parallel if -Recurse parameter is used Open

Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#673 · Opened Nov 23, 2016
Change error message of PSUseShouldProcessForStateChangingFunctions Open

Issue - Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#670 · Opened Nov 22, 2016
PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments unaware of global/env variables Open

Area - PSUseDeclaredVarsMoreThanAssignments Area - Rules Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#663 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 19, 2016
VariableAnalysis dictionary keeps accumulating unused ASTs Open

Issue - Bug

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#660 · Opened Nov 18, 2016
PSScriptAnalyzer’s code is not compliant with dotnet coding style Open

Issue - Enhancement

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#656 · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 17, 2016
[Discussion] PowerShell classes to add rules Open

Issue - Discussion

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#645 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 22, 2016
PSScriptAnalyzer needs a way to handle dot sourced scripts in the context of the parent script Open

Issue - Enhancement

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#643 · 1 comment · 7 reactions · Opened Oct 18, 2016
Suggestion for new rule - Ensure that variables used in a function is always declared in the local scope Open

Issue - Discussion

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

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#632 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 11, 2016
Consider appveyor artifact for module Open

Area - Build Issue - Enhancement

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#622 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 26, 2016
Declare requires v5 if using classes Open

Issue - New Rule

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#621 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 23, 2016
Merge build.ps1 and buildCoreClr.ps1 Open

Issue - Enhancement

PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer#620 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 23, 2016

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