PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices
A common platform for PowerShell development support in any editor or application!
Is PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices beginner-friendly?
We have not seen enough recent pull requests from first-time contributors to PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.
- Stars
- 767
- Forks
- 266
- Open beginner issues
- 0
- Indexed issues
- 125
- Avg merge
- 3d 16h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 1
- Dominant language
- C#
- License
- MIT
- Last GitHub push
- Sep 9, 2026
- Latest indexed
- Sep 19, 2026
- Contributing guide
- Contributing guide
- Code of conduct
- Code of conduct
- Beginner labels
- No beginner labels indexed
How to contribute to PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices
- Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
- Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
- Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
- Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.
Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date
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Area-Test Issue-Bug
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100
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Issue-Bug Up for Grabs
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#2313 · 4 comments ·
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Area-Script Analysis Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#1166 · 1 reaction ·
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Area-psEditor Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 43/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#1111 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·
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Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#1091 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·
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Code Cleanup: Remove all usages of `dynamic`May be free again @andyleejordan claimed this 1788 days ago, and no pull request is open. OpenArea-General Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#1074 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee ·
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Area-Debugging Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Area-CodeLens Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Enhancement Issue-Performance
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#992 · 4 comments ·
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Area-Documentation Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#968 · 6 comments ·
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Area-Tasks Issue-Bug
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#924 · 5 comments ·
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Area-Workspaces Issue-Bug
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#870 · 1 comment ·
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Area-Build & Release Issue-Bug
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#864 · 3 comments ·
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Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#791 · 2 comments · 2 reactions ·
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Area-Script Analysis Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#727 · 2 comments ·
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Area-Workspaces Issue-Bug
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#714 · 4 comments · 1 reaction ·
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Area-ReadLine Issue-Bug OS-macOS
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#682 · 8 comments ·
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Area-psEditor Issue-Discussion Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#679 · 1 comment · 3 reactions ·
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Area-Test Issue-Bug
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
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Area-psEditor Issue-Discussion
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#644 · 13 comments · 1 reaction ·
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Area-IntelliSense Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#637 · 8 comments · 1 reaction ·
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Area-Code Navigation Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#635 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·
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Area-Documentation Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#631 · 4 comments ·
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Area-psEditor Area-Tasks Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#630 · 4 comments ·
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Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#618 · 10 comments · 1 reaction ·
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Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#617 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·
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Area-API Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#615 · 1 reaction ·
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Area-Language Server Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#613 · 4 comments ·
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Area-Language Server Issue-Bug
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 28/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#602 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·
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Area-Language Server Issue-Discussion
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#566 · 3 comments · 2 reactions ·
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Area-Script Analysis Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#552 · 7 comments ·
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Area-Tasks Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#542 · 5 comments ·
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Implement completion provider for #Requires statementsMay be free again @rkeithhill claimed this 3400 days ago, and no pull request is open. OpenArea-IntelliSense Issue-Enhancement
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#493 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Area-psEditor Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#491 · 1 comment ·
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Issue-Bug
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#483 · 1 reaction ·
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Issue-Discussion
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#469 · 12 comments ·
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Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Bug
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#463 · 2 comments ·
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Area-psEditor Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#441 · 2 reactions ·
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Area-psEditor Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#439 · 1 comment ·
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Area-IntelliSense Issue-Performance
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#438 · 8 comments · 4 reactions ·
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Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#423 · 1 comment ·
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Area-General Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#395 · 1 comment ·
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Area-psEditor Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100
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Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#356 · 1 comment ·
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Area-Tasks Issue-Enhancement
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#343 · 1 comment ·
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Improve Constrained Runspace Debug ExperiencePossibly taken @JustinGrote claimed this 115 days ago. OpenArea-Debugging Issue-Enhancement
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#2294 · 1 reaction · 2 assignees ·
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Document outline drops child variables when a function/filter reuses a variable name declared earlier (scope-blind declaration dedup)Possibly taken @JustinGrote claimed this 143 days ago. Open
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#2282 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 2 assignees ·
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PsesDocumentHighlightHandler debug log doesn't display list contents.Possibly taken @JustinGrote claimed this 166 days ago. OpenIssue-Bug Needs: Triage
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#2278 · 1 reaction · 2 assignees ·
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Semantic Highlighting breaks when rapidly typing due to improper cancellationPossibly taken @JustinGrote claimed this 596 days ago. OpenIssue-Bug
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#2216 · 11 comments · 1 reaction · 2 assignees ·
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Simplify inherited `IDisposable` logic due to SerilogPossibly taken @andyleejordan claimed this 51 days ago. OpenArea-Logging Issue-Enhancement
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#1477 · 12 comments · 1 reaction · 2 assignees ·
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