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Variables: Pester Variable in BeforeAll scope not visible in variable list (but is watchable)

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
powershell
Domain
devtools

Research direction

No source file or test is named. Reproduce the Pester BeforeAll case and inspect how variables are fetched from the local, script, and global stacks; done means the Pester variable appears in the local variable list while retaining its existing watchability.

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Description

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

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To be clear it's not in local/script/global either. I would expect it to be in local. This is probably an issue in how we fetch variables from the various stacks, or maybe Pester exposes this variable in a weird way.

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