fieldops-powershell-utf8

fieldops-powershell-utf8 is a skill for Codex from download4you/n2-fieldops. It costs 147 tokens per session (342 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing and repairing PowerShell scripts that handle Persian, Farsi, and other Unicode text correctly. It covers console input and output, native-process pipes, file reading, and file encoding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when multilingual text is corrupted, when a script needs exact UTF-8 files, or when checking Unicode behavior across PowerShell text boundaries.
Why use it?
It addresses garbled text, question-mark boxes, and incorrect UTF-8 BOM handling in PowerShell automation.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it when multilingual text is corrupted, when a script needs exact UTF-8 files, or when checking Unicode behavior across PowerShell text boundaries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/download4you/n2-fieldops/fieldops-powershell-utf8
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 download4you/n2-fieldops --skill fieldops-powershell-utf8
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/download4you/n2-fieldops

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 147 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 342 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 $0.00147 $0.00342
Opus 5.5 $0.00059 $0.00137
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00034

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a4b90b3b68e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fieldops-powershell-utf8 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/test-utf8-roundtrip.ps1), 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.

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.

fieldops-powershell-utf8/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

PowerShell UTF-8

Start Unicode-sensitive sessions explicitly:

$utf8 = [System.Text.UTF8Encoding]::new($false)
[Console]::InputEncoding = $utf8
[Console]::OutputEncoding = $utf8
$OutputEncoding = $utf8

Read with Get-Content -LiteralPath ... -Raw -Encoding UTF8. For exact BOM-less writes, use [System.IO.File]::WriteAllText($path, $text, $utf8). Avoid legacy redirection defaults.

Read references/encoding-matrix.md for cross-version/BOM work. Run scripts/test-utf8-roundtrip.ps1 to validate deterministic file encoding. The script is ASCII-only so Windows PowerShell 5.1 cannot corrupt its source literals. Treat console rendering and native-process pipes as separate boundaries and test them separately when the task depends on them.

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 1mo ago First seen · 20 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A a4b90b3b68e5

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fieldops-powershell-utf8 is a skill published in the GitHub repository download4you/n2-fieldops (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 342 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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