Powershell-Copilot-Standards analyze.instructions.md

Instructions for reviewing PowerShell code for correctness, security, speed, and organizational standards. PowerShell is Microsoft's scripting language for Windows and system administration.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports checks of PowerShell structure, validation, credential leaks, path traversal, injection risks, resource use, and documentation.
Why use it?
It helps reveal unsafe inputs, exposed credentials, inefficient pipelines, weak documentation, and other code problems before deployment.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/fadwen/powershell-copilot-standards/analyze
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fadwen/Powershell-Copilot-Standards

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

Per session 752 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 752 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00752 $0.00752
Opus 5 $0.00376 $0.00376
Sonnet 5 $0.00150 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00075 $0.00075

Measured 2d ago against content hash aa0ff334e0c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Powershell-Copilot-Standards analyze.instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.github/instructions/analyze.instructions.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PowerShell Code Analysis

Analyze the provided PowerShell code using enterprise-grade analysis standards. Perform a comprehensive review covering code quality, security, performance, and compliance with organizational standards.

Analysis Framework

Execute the following analysis components:

1. Code Quality Assessment

  • PSScriptAnalyzer Validation: Check against all standard rules plus enterprise-specific rules
  • Best Practices Compliance: Verify adherence to PowerShell development standards
  • Code Structure: Evaluate function design, parameter validation, and pipeline efficiency
  • Documentation Quality: Assess comment-based help completeness and accuracy

2. Security Analysis

  • Credential Leak Detection: Scan for hardcoded passwords, API keys, or sensitive data
  • Input Validation: Verify all user inputs are properly validated and sanitized
  • Path Traversal Protection: Check for unsafe file path handling
  • Injection Prevention: Identify potential code injection vulnerabilities

3. Performance Evaluation

  • Memory Usage: Assess memory management and resource disposal
  • Pipeline Optimization: Evaluate pipeline usage and efficiency
  • Scalability: Review code for performance with large datasets
  • Algorithm Efficiency: Identify optimization opportunities

4. Compliance Verification

  • PowerShell Standards: Verify compliance with approved verbs and naming conventions
  • File Organization: Check adherence to standardized folder structure
  • Testing Coverage: Evaluate test completeness and quality
  • Error Handling: Assess error handling patterns and correlation tracking

Required Output Format

Provide analysis results in this structured format:

🚨 Critical Issues (Must Fix)

  • List any critical security vulnerabilities or breaking errors
  • Include specific line numbers and remediation steps

⚠️ High Priority Issues

  • Security concerns that should be addressed before production
  • Performance bottlenecks affecting scalability
  • Standards violations impacting maintainability

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 107 lines · 752 tokens per session scan A aa0ff334e0c2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Powershell-Copilot-Standards analyze.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository fadwen/Powershell-Copilot-Standards (19 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 752 tokens to every session, about $0.0038 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.