powershell-windows

PowerShell guidance for Windows scripts, covering command syntax, text characters, empty values, string interpolation, and error handling. PowerShell is Microsoft's command-line shell and scripting language.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing PowerShell automation and configuration scripts, especially when checking conditions, handling errors, or building messages.
Why use it?
It helps avoid common Windows PowerShell mistakes that can cause scripts to fail, mishandle missing data, or display unreliable output.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/misonl/ling/powershell-windows
Any agent
npx skills add MisonL/Ling --skill powershell-windows
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MisonL/Ling

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,347 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00040 $0.01347
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00674
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00269
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00135

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3a64ef2371b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

.agents/skills/powershell-windows/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PowerShell Windows 实践模式

针对 Windows PowerShell 的核心模式与关键陷阱。


1. 运算符语法规则

关键:必须使用圆括号(Parentheses)

[FAIL] 错误做法 [OK] 正确做法
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))

准则: 在使用逻辑运算符时,每一个 Cmdlet(命令)的调用必须封装在圆括号内。


2. Unicode(统一码)/Emoji(表情符号)限制

关键:脚本中严禁使用 Unicode

用途 [FAIL] 禁止使用 [OK] 推荐使用
成功 [OK] OK [OK] [+]
错误 [FAIL] X [CRITICAL] [!] [X]
警告 [WARN] [SUGGESTION] [*] [WARN]
信息 [i] [INFO]
进度 [...]

准则: 在 PowerShell 脚本中仅使用 ASCII(ASCII 码)字符。


3. 空值检查模式

在访问前始终检查

[FAIL] 错误做法 [OK] 正确做法
$array.Count -gt 0 $array -and $array.Count -gt 0
$text.Length if ($text) { $text.Length }

4. 字符串内插(Interpolation)

复杂表达式的处理

推荐做法: 先存储到变量中,再进行内插。

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

5. 错误处理

ErrorActionPreference(错误处理偏好)配置

取值 使用场景
Stop 开发阶段(快速失败)
Continue 生产环境脚本
SilentlyContinue 预期可能会发生错误时

Try/Catch(错误捕获)最佳实践

  • 不要在 try 块内部直接返回。
  • 始终使用 finally 块进行资源清理。
  • 在 try/catch 结构之后再执行返回操作。

6. 文件路径处理

Windows 路径规则

模式 用途
字面量路径 C:\Users\User\file.txt
变量路径 Join-Path $env:USERPROFILE "file.txt"
相对路径 Join-Path $ScriptDir "data"

准则: 使用 Join-Path 以确保跨平台的路径安全性。

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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 · 167 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 3a64ef2371b5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

powershell-windows is a skill published in the GitHub repository MisonL/Ling (9 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,347 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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