powershell-master

A broad guide to PowerShell, Microsoft's command-line scripting language, across Windows, Linux, and macOS.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or review PowerShell scripts, manage modules, build pipelines, automate systems, and debug cross-platform commands.
Why use it?
It helps make scripts, automation, CI/CD pipelines, modules, and cloud-management tasks consistent and easier to review or troubleshoot.

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/secondlifes/delphi-expert/powershell-master
Any agent
npx skills add SecondLifes/delphi-expert --skill powershell-master
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SecondLifes/delphi-expert

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 166 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,932 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 $0.00166 $0.01932
Opus 5 $0.00083 $0.00966
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00386
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00193

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0f98d826986f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

powershell-master 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-master/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PowerShell Master

Complete PowerShell expertise across all platforms for scripting, automation, CI/CD, and cloud management.


When to Activate

PROACTIVELY activate for ANY PowerShell-related task:

  • PowerShell Scripts - Creating, reviewing, optimizing any .ps1 file
  • Cmdlets & Modules - Finding, installing, using any PowerShell modules
  • Cross-Platform - Windows, Linux, macOS PowerShell tasks
  • CI/CD Integration - GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket Pipelines
  • Cloud Automation - Azure (Az), AWS, Microsoft 365 (Microsoft.Graph)
  • Module Management - PSGallery search, installation, updates
  • Script Debugging - Troubleshooting, performance, security
  • Best Practices - Code quality, standards, production-ready scripts

Usage

You say What happens
"Write/review this .ps1 script" Runs the Core Workflow below — identifies scope/platform, checks $PSVersionTable, loads only the reference file(s) the task actually needs, applies the Pre-Flight Checklist before finalizing.
"Set up a GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps pipeline for this" Loads references/cicd-integration.md for multi-platform build/test matrix patterns.
"Automate this in Azure/AWS/Microsoft 365" Loads references/modules-and-gallery.md — Az, Microsoft.Graph, AWS Tools, PSGallery install guidance.
"Is this script secure? How do I handle credentials?" Loads references/security-2025.md — JEA, WDAC, Constrained Language Mode, Script Block Logging, credential handling, code signing.
"Why is this slow / how do I write a Pester test?" Loads references/syntax-reference.md — cmdlet reference, pipeline, error handling, Pester, performance tuning.
"This needs to run on Windows and Linux" Loads references/cross-platform-patterns.md$IsWindows/$IsLinux/$IsMacOS, path handling, encoding, shell detection.

Reference Map

Detailed material lives in references/. Load only what the current task needs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 2d ago First seen · 190 lines · 166 tokens per session scan A 0f98d826986f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

powershell-master is a skill published in the GitHub repository SecondLifes/delphi-expert (3 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 1,932 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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