# Setup > Verify the powershell-format hook's runtime prerequisites and configuration for this repository. Use when: 'set up powershell-format', 'configure powershell-format', 'is powershell-format working', PowerShell formatting or linting silently isn't happening, or the hook reported a missing prerequisite. Actions: check (read-only verification, default) | apply (resolve what check found). Re-runnable and safe. - Skill: `melodic-software/setup-51` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add melodic-software/setup-51` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/melodic-software/setup-51/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Coding & Dev Tools - Author: melodic-software (https://skillmd.com/u/melodic-software) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/melodic-software/setup-51 --- ## Purpose Thin check-centric setup per the uniform setup contract (`docs/PLUGIN-PHILOSOPHY.md` "Setup is explicit and repeatable" in the marketplace repository): `check` inspects and reports, `apply` resolves. This plugin owns no consumer-project configuration. Formatting and linting rules come from the repository's own `PSScriptAnalyzerSettings.psd1`, and the only tunable is the native `userConfig` toggle. The `pwsh` runtime and the PSScriptAnalyzer module are resolved from the environment (never bundled, never downloaded), and the plugin installs nothing, so `apply` is guidance-only with **no write path**. It never modifies the repository, user settings, or the plugin cache. Note the deliberate asymmetry vs the sibling formatter plugins: only `jq` absence is a prerequisite defect here. A machine without PowerShell, or without the PSScriptAnalyzer module, or a repo without a settings file, is treated as **not-applicable, not missing**: the hook stays quiet by design, so `check` reports these as INFO, never FAIL. Action routing: no argument or `check` runs the check; `apply` runs the check first, then offers remediation guidance. Both are non-interactive. Never prompt when the action is given. ## `check` (read-only) The hook script (`${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/powershell-format.sh`) is the single source of truth for what it requires and how it resolves things. **Read it first.** Probe what it actually does, don't recite this file. Then run each probe via Bash and report a PASS/FAIL/INFO table with one remediation line per FAIL. Do not modify anything. When the plugin's toggle is disabled, every prerequisite absence downgrades from FAIL to INFO. The hook exits through its enabled-gate before probing anything, so a deliberately disabled plugin is not broken. Report the probes informationally and note that re-enabling restores the FAIL semantics. 1. **Bash version.** Check against the hook's documented floor (README Requirements), noting any features the hook degrades without (for example telemetry's `EPOCHREALTIME`, a Bash 5.0+ builtin). 2. **`jq`.** `command -v jq`. FAIL if absent: the hook then skips with a visible once-per-session notice instead of running. This is the only FAIL-class prerequisite. 3. **`pwsh` (PowerShell 7+).** Probe read-only: `pwsh -NoProfile -NonInteractive -Command '$PSVersionTable.PSVersion.ToString()'`. INFO, not FAIL: the hook probes `pwsh` only (never legacy `powershell.exe`) and stays quiet when it is absent. A machine without PowerShell is not-applicable by design. Report the version when present. 4. **PSScriptAnalyzer module.** Probe **only when `pwsh` resolved** (chain behind step 3 so the probe never errors on a pwsh-less box): `pwsh -NoProfile -NonInteractive -Command 'if (Get-Module -ListAvailable -Name PSScriptAnalyzer) { "present" } else { "absent" }'`. INFO, not FAIL: absent → the hook is a clean quiet no-op (same not-applicable classification). This probe is read-only. `Get-Module -ListAvailable` inspects, it does not format, lint, or mutate. 5. **`PSScriptAnalyzerSettings.psd1` opt-in.** INFO: the hook runs **only when a `PSScriptAnalyzerSettings.psd1` governs the edited file** (walking up from the file to the repo root, bounded by `CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR` when set, stopping at the closest one). Absence is the opt-out and is **by design, not a defect**. The plugin is inert until a repo adopts a settings file. Report whether one exists and its location. When one exists, surface the README **Trust model**: the settings file is executed-adjacent configuration. A `CustomRulePath` it declares would load and run repository-supplied rule modules during analysis, so the hook gates such a settings state on an explicit per-content trust approval (marker under `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/trust-approvals`; any settings change revokes it). It carries the same trust as build/CI configuration. 6. **Hook toggle.** Report the effective `powershell_format_enabled` value: `${user_config.powershell_format_enabled}` (unexpanded or empty means default `true`; any value other than `true` disables the hook). 7. **Hook registration.** INFO: confirm the plugin is enabled for this project (`/plugin` → Installed) rather than parsing settings files. ## `apply` (idempotent) Run `check`, then for each finding point at the resolution. This skill installs nothing: - missing `jq` / Bash: platform install instructions from the README Requirements section; this skill never installs system packages. - `pwsh` absent (and PowerShell support is wanted): point at installing [PowerShell 7+](https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell); this skill never installs it. If PowerShell is genuinely not applicable on this machine, leaving it absent is a valid end state. The hook stays quiet. - PSScriptAnalyzer module absent: `Install-Module PSScriptAnalyzer` is **user-scope guidance only**. State the command for the reader to run; this skill never runs it. - no `PSScriptAnalyzerSettings.psd1` (and linting/formatting is wanted): explain that adding a settings file at or below the project root opts the repo in, but this skill does not write it. The settings file is the executed-adjacent trust boundary above; the choice and the edit belong to the consumer. - toggle off: reconfigure through Claude Code's native flow, per the marketplace's plugin-reconfiguration convention (, which owns the verified-version record): interactive `/plugin configure powershell-format@` any time, or headless `claude plugin install powershell-format@ -s --config powershell_format_enabled=true` (repeatable per key) — against an already-installed plugin it prints `already installed` and still writes the value. Do **not** uninstall to reconfigure: that drops the plugin's entire stored `pluginConfigs` entry, resetting every option in the README's Options reference to its manifest default. `-s` defaults to `user`; pass the scope `claude plugin list` reports, and run from that project's directory for a `project`/`local` scope, or the write lands at a scope that does not load. This skill never writes user settings or `pluginConfigs`. Afterwards rerun `check` in a **fresh session** — the rendered `${user_config.*}` and the hook's `CLAUDE_PLUGIN_OPTION_*` are fixed at session start, so a same-session `check` still reports the OLD value; report the observed effective value, never an unobserved change. After pointing at a remediation, re-run the relevant `check` probe and report its actual result. Never claim resolved on the reader's report that they installed something. Re-running `apply` after everything passes changes nothing and reports "already configured". ## What this skill does NOT do - Run the formatter or linter. Editing any `.ps1`, `.psm1`, or `.psd1` file exercises the hook end-to-end. The `check` pwsh probes are read-only capability checks; they never format, lint, or mutate any file. - Write the plugin cache, Claude Code user settings, or `pluginConfigs`. Nor the repository, including `PSScriptAnalyzerSettings.psd1`. The `pwsh` runtime and the PSScriptAnalyzer module are resolved from the environment, never installed, so remediation is guidance only. - Download tools during `check` beyond the read-only presence and version probes.