powershell-windows

powershell-windows is a skill for Claude Code from DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,216 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A guide to writing and running PowerShell scripts on Windows, including command syntax and error handling. PowerShell is Microsoft's command-line shell and scripting language.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for Windows automation, command-line tools, and scripts that work with files, processes, paths, and JSON.
Why use it?
It helps avoid common Windows scripting mistakes and makes failures easier to handle.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for Windows automation, command-line tools, and scripts that work with files, processes, paths, and JSON.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dds-solutions/ai-tadpole-os/powershell-windows
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.

Any agent
npx skills add DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS --skill powershell-windows
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for powershell-windows

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dds-solutions/ai-tadpole-os/powershell-windows/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dds-solutions/ai-tadpole-os/powershell-windows)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dds-solutions/ai-tadpole-os/powershell-windows"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dds-solutions/ai-tadpole-os/powershell-windows/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for powershell-windows

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dds-solutions/ai-tadpole-os/powershell-windows"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dds-solutions/ai-tadpole-os/powershell-windows.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,216 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00026 $0.01216
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00486
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00122

Measured 12d ago against content hash fff76dbe3793, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

powershell-windows scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/powershell_linter.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- **Gate 1 (No Unix Hallucinations)**: Are Unix utilities like `rm -rf`, `touch`, `grep`, or `which` substituted with `Remove-Item -Recurse -Force`, `New-Item`, `Select-String`, and `Get-Command`?
.agent/skills/powershell-windows/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

[!IMPORTANT] AI Context & Knowledge Heritage

  • Subsystem: Agent Skills Registry / powershell-windows
  • Architecture: @docs ARCHITECTURE:Documentation
  • Failure Path: Operator syntax crashes, JSON -Depth truncation, unhandled native process errors, or Unix command hallucinations.
  • Observability: Traceability via execution/parity_guard.py ([SKILL])

PowerShell Windows Engineering Patterns

Scope: Essential syntax, safety rules, operator semantics, and error-handling patterns for Windows PowerShell 7+.
Workflow Bindings: Integrated across all build, test, and preview execution loops on Windows.


🎯 Progressive Disclosure & L3 Reference Index

Read the core Sovereign rules below; consult deep L3 Reference Guides on demand:

L3 Reference Guide Purpose Trigger / When to Load
references/powershell_pitfalls_and_recipes.md JSON -Depth handling, process kills, Join-Path cross-drive safety, regex piping Complex PowerShell automation & syntax edge cases
scripts/powershell_linter.py Automated static linter detecting unparenthesized conditions, missing -Depth, and Unix commands Auditing .ps1 files and proposed shell commands

⚠️ 1. Top 4 Non-Negotiable Syntax Rules

  1. Parentheses for Cmdlets in Conditions:
    • ❌ if (Test-Path "a" -or Test-Path "b") (PowerShell binds -or as argument to Test-Path)
    • ✅ if ((Test-Path "a") -or (Test-Path "b"))
  2. ASCII Only in Logs/Scripts: Use ASCII status tags ([OK], [FAIL], [WARN]) instead of raw Unicode/emojis to prevent Windows codepage crashes.
  3. Always Specify -Depth on JSON: Always use ConvertTo-Json -Depth 20 to prevent truncation of nested objects (default depth is only 2).
  4. Safe Path Joining: Always use Join-Path or $PSScriptRoot instead of string interpolation or drive-relative concatenation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago Changed · +39 lines · +7 tokens per session scan A → C fff76dbe3793
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 55 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A ca67a85c7c5f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

powershell-windows is a skill published in the GitHub repository DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,216 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

nextjs-pages-router

Set up tRPC in Next.js Pages Router with createNextApiHandler, createTRPCNext, withTRPC HOC, SSR via ssr option and ssrPrepass, SSG via createServerSideHelpers with getStaticProps, and server-side helpers for getServerSideProps prefetching.

trpc/trpc · 67 tokens

react-query-setup

Set up @trpc/tanstack-react-query with createTRPCContext(), TRPCProvider, useTRPC() hook, queryOptions/mutationOptions factories, query invalidation via queryClient.invalidateQueries with queryFilter, and type inference with inferInput/inferOutput.

trpc/trpc · 60 tokens

trpc-router

Entry point for all tRPC skills. Decision tree routing by task: initTRPC.create(), t.router(), t.procedure, createTRPCClient, adapters, subscriptions, React Query, Next.js, links, middleware, validators, error handling, caching, FormData.

trpc/trpc · 59 tokens

migrate-oxlint

Guide for migrating a project from ESLint to Oxlint. Use when asked to migrate, convert, or switch a JavaScript/TypeScript project's linter from ESLint to Oxlint.

oxc-project/oxc · 44 tokens

build-with-tinybase

Scaffold, extend, and verify reactive local-first JavaScript or TypeScript applications with TinyBase. Use when choosing TinyBase for in-memory tabular or key-value state, generating an app with create-tinybase, adding schemas or UI bindings, resolving TinyBase import paths, configuring browser or database…

tinyplex/tinybase · 90 tokens

beui-pro

Choose, inspect, install, and compose licensed beUI Pro premium React blocks through authenticated MCP or the shadcn registry. Use when building or improving landing pages with beUI Pro, installing @beui-pro items, selecting premium heroes, features, pricing, social proof, CTAs, navigation, footers, or other page…

starc007/ui-components · 85 tokens