powershell-gnu-flag-binding

powershell-gnu-flag-binding is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alonf/specrew. It costs 28 tokens per session (460 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A PowerShell implementation pattern for accepting GNU-style --flags consistently in both PowerShell Core and Windows PowerShell.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or repairing cross-host PowerShell CLIs with hyphenated options and both direct and -File invocation forms.
Why use it?
The two hosts can bind command-line arguments differently, causing options such as --project-path or --dry-run to be ignored.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when building or repairing cross-host PowerShell CLIs with hyphenated options and both direct and -File invocation forms.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alonf/specrew/powershell-gnu-flag-binding
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add alonf/specrew --skill powershell-gnu-flag-binding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alonf/specrew

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 460 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00028 $0.00460
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00046

Measured 3d ago against content hash dca639fa7860, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

powershell-gnu-flag-binding 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 3d 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.

.squad/skills/powershell-gnu-flag-binding/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Context

Use this when a PowerShell script exposes a GNU-style --* surface but must still run correctly under both pwsh and Windows PowerShell, including powershell -File script.ps1.

Patterns

  • Keep [CmdletBinding(PositionalBinding = $false)] on the script entry point.
  • Add hyphenated [Alias()] names for options that PowerShell will not bind natively from --flag value forms (for example dry-run, project-path, no-agents).
  • Retain an explicit remaining-arguments parser for --flag=value forms and for host/version combinations that still pass GNU-style tokens through unbound.
  • Validate both direct invocation (& .\script.ps1 --flag) and Windows PowerShell -File invocation because their binding behavior differs.

Examples

  • --dry-run --project-path C:\Work\Demo binds through aliases under Windows PowerShell -File.
  • --agents=all continues to flow through the explicit remaining-arguments parser.
  • scripts\specrew-init.ps1 combines aliases plus ValueFromRemainingArguments to cover both forms without rewriting the bootstrap flow.

Anti-Patterns

  • Replacing the whole param block with manual string parsing when only a few hyphenated aliases are missing.
  • Assuming pwsh and Windows PowerShell treat --flag value the same way.
  • Dropping the fallback parser after adding aliases; that breaks --flag=value forms PowerShell still leaves unbound.
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. 3d ago First seen · 34 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A dca639fa7860

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powershell-gnu-flag-binding is a skill published in the GitHub repository alonf/specrew (54 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 460 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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