PowerShell/vscode-powershell

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Provides PowerShell language and debugging support for Visual Studio Code

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Open beginner issues: 1
Indexed issues: 345

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Aug 21, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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345 open issues indexed

default settings for PSScriptAnalyzer are different to the CLI Open

Area-Script Analysis Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5385 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 27, 2026
ms-vscode.powershell@2025.4.0 crashing Open

Issue-Bug Needs: Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 12/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5384 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 26, 2026
Start-DebugAttachSession without parameters "hangs" Open

Issue-Bug Needs: Triage

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5352 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 16, 2025
Bug/Regression? Debugger terminal commands require Enter in attached process console Open

Issue-Bug Needs: Triage

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5347 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 10, 2025
Enable Advanced VSCode Settings Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5327 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 21, 2025
Function breakpoints allow entry of a condition / hit count but do not add the condition to the PS breakpoint Open

Issue-Bug Needs: Triage

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5319 · Opened Nov 11, 2025
Feature Request: Plaster (Re,-) Integration Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5316 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 11, 2025
Error: connect ETIMEDOUT \\.\pipe\... when debug Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug OS-Windows Pending: External

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5311 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 6, 2025
`connect ENOENT \\.\pipe\PSES_fskvz4fs.gy4` appears, until VSC has been reinvoked, when a `.PS1` file is invoked in VSC, after cancelling a shutdown that was caused by a PS1 file, which was invoked by VSC. Open

Issue-Bug Needs: Triage

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5307 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 2, 2025
Conditional Breakpoint: Does Not Stop When Using A Private Variable Open

Issue-Bug Needs: Triage

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5301 · Opened Oct 23, 2025
Microsoft Endpoint Privilege Management - CLI Integration with Virtual Accounts Open

Issue-Bug Needs: Triage

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5299 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 21, 2025
Reports Missing closing '}' on a if statement when not all on one line or the { not on the next line with powershell version 5 Open

Issue-Bug Needs: Triage

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5297 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2025
Unregister-EditorCommand doesn't remove command from list Open

Area-psEditor Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5277 · Opened Sep 18, 2025
Outline - Optionally treat and show `#` as H1, `##` as H2 Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5261 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 11, 2025
The yellow progress bar is printed over the input prompt when Expand-Archive throws an error. Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Bug Verified

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5245 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 24, 2025
Read-Host and PromptForChoice produce repeated 'e' characters in terminal Open

Issue-Bug Needs: Maintainer Attention

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5240 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 17, 2025
Feature Request: Add support for configuring SkipRemainingOnFailure in the settings. Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5239 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 17, 2025
Feature Request: Override next line to execute when debugging Open

Issue-Enhancement Pending: External

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5238 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 12, 2025
Need a better (cross-platform friendly) way to configure additional PowerShell paths Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5233 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 4, 2025
Conditional Breakpoint query does not work in pipeline ($_ not recognized) Open

Issue-Bug Needs: Triage

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5223 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 27, 2025
Linter gets stuck in strange state, saving removes lots of code Open

Area-PSReadLine Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5221 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 25, 2025
Add devcontainer & dsc/winget configuration that can be used when building this repo Open

Area-Build & Release Issue-Enhancement Verified

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5207 · 2 comments · Opened May 30, 2025
Support for VSCode variables and arguments when defining Additional Exe Paths Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5205 · 2 comments · Opened May 25, 2025
attempting to enter debugger from commandline gives error in extension version 2025.0.0 Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug Verified

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5175 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 16, 2025
Error setting variable during debug Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5167 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 3, 2025
The automatic variable $PSHOME is not highlighted Open

Area-Semantic Highlighting Issue-Bug Verified

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5166 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 3, 2025
Sticky Scroll showing a maximum of one line Open

Area-Folding Issue-Bug Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5163 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 24, 2025
Incorrect execution status for last command run with the PowerShell Extension Open

Area-Engine Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5160 · Opened Mar 22, 2025
Start-Transcript + Write-Progress + yarn + MacOS: ^[[23;1R Open

Issue-Bug Needs: Triage

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5159 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 21, 2025
Debugger hangs in finally block after CTRL+C Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug Verified

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5155 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 11, 2025
Feature Request: Expose parameters to the Outline View Open

Area-UI Feature: VS Code Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs Verified

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5153 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 7, 2025
[ScriptAnalyzer Issue] Unexpected string with powershell.codeFormatting.whitespaceBetweenParameters enabled Open

Area-Script Analysis Issue-Bug Pending: External

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5140 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 19, 2025
Version 7.5 causes terminal window crash Open

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5139 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 14, 2025
Alias expansion should move cursor to end of command name Open

Issue-Bug Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5136 · 7 comments · Opened Feb 3, 2025
Format on save hangs with PowerShell v7.5.0, runs fine with v7.4.7 Open

Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5134 · 14 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 2, 2025
Debugging Remote Runspace: the editor could not be opened due to an unexpected error: cannot read properties of null (reading 'create') Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5133 · 10 comments · Opened Feb 1, 2025
Running script with F5 changes directory when script is on a drive that's different from launch.json cwd value and powershell.debugging.createTemporaryIntegratedConsole is enabled Open

Issue-Bug Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5132 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 25, 2025
Add schema validation for PSD1 files Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5131 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 22, 2025
Same assembly was loaded into multiple contexts of an application domain Open

Area-Engine Bug: PowerShell 5.1 Issue-Bug Needs: Maintainer Attention

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5128 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2025
Integrate with tool version managers like Aqua and mise Open

Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5123 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 10, 2025
Missing Problems entries for PSUseToExportFieldsInManifest in .psd1 manifests Open

Issue-Bug Needs: Maintainer Attention

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5112 · 11 comments · Opened Dec 4, 2024
Have PowerShell formatter remove trailing whitespace when formatting a file Open

Area-Code Formatting Area-Script Analysis Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5111 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 3, 2024
Excessive CodeLens Requests Open

Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5104 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 27, 2024
RFC: Standardize Logging Levels and Meanings Open

Area-Logging Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5101 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 25, 2024
Provide checkbox option to use PSReadline beta version Open

Area-PSReadLine Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5098 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 19, 2024
CI: Invalid Debug Adapter Errors Open

Area-Test Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5077 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 1, 2024
debugging an external host should break at any statement Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5073 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2024
Highlight related keywords under cursor Open

Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5058 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 6, 2024
Extension Fails to start using PowerShell 7 if Windows PowerShell module path is above the PS7 module path in $PSMODULEPATH Open

Area-Startup Issue-Bug Needs: Maintainer Attention

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5057 · 61 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 4, 2024
Add option to filter out file/folder suggestions when completions are automatically triggered by a space Open

Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5054 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 30, 2024

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