powershell-windows

powershell-windows is a skill for Claude Code from bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit. It costs 19 tokens per session (977 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of powershell-windows, MIT.

A guide to writing reliable PowerShell scripts for Windows, including command syntax, empty-value checks, text formatting, and ASCII-only output.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing Windows automation scripts and troubleshooting PowerShell syntax or runtime problems.
Why use it?
It helps avoid common PowerShell errors caused by operator precedence, missing values, Unicode characters, and complex expressions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when writing or reviewing Windows automation scripts and troubleshooting PowerShell syntax or runtime problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit/powershell-windows
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit --skill powershell-windows
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 977 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 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00019 $0.00977
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00489
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00098

Measured 5d ago against content hash e902ee8d16b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

powershell-windows 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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to powershell-windows — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/powershell-windows/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PowerShell Windows Patterns

Critical patterns and pitfalls for Windows PowerShell.


1. Operator Syntax Rules

CRITICAL: Parentheses Required

❌ Wrong ✅ Correct
if (Test-Path "a" -or Test-Path "b") if ((Test-Path "a") -or (Test-Path "b"))
if (Get-Item $x -and $y -eq 5) if ((Get-Item $x) -and ($y -eq 5))

Rule: Each cmdlet call MUST be in parentheses when using logical operators.


2. Unicode/Emoji Restriction

CRITICAL: No Unicode in Scripts

Purpose ❌ Don't Use ✅ Use
Success ✅ ✓ [OK] [+]
Error ❌ ✗ 🔴 [!] [X]
Warning ⚠️ 🟡 [*] [WARN]
Info ℹ️ 🔵 [i] [INFO]
Progress [...]

Rule: Use ASCII characters only in PowerShell scripts.


3. Null Check Patterns

Always Check Before Access

❌ Wrong ✅ Correct
$array.Count -gt 0 $array -and $array.Count -gt 0
$text.Length if ($text) { $text.Length }

4. String Interpolation

Complex Expressions

❌ Wrong ✅ Correct
"Value: $($obj.prop.sub)" Store in variable first

Pattern:

$value = $obj.prop.sub
Write-Output "Value: $value"

5. Error Handling

ErrorActionPreference

Value Use
Stop Development (fail fast)
Continue Production scripts
SilentlyContinue When errors expected

Try/Catch Pattern

  • Don't return inside try block
  • Use finally for cleanup
  • Return after try/catch

6. File Paths

Windows Path Rules

Pattern Use
Literal path C:\Users\User\file.txt
Variable path Join-Path $env:USERPROFILE "file.txt"
Relative Join-Path $ScriptDir "data"

Rule: Use Join-Path for cross-platform safety.


7. Array Operations

Correct Patterns

Operation Syntax
Empty array $array = @()
Add item $array += $item
ArrayList add `$list.Add($item)

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. 5d ago First seen · 168 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A e902ee8d16b3

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powershell-windows is a skill published in the GitHub repository bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit (10 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 977 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to powershell-windows, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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