PaletteShellScripts

Community script library for PaletteShell — a Windows Command Palette extension that runs custom PowerShell scripts straight from the palette.

Browse a collection you like, copy the .ps1 files into your scripts folder (defaults to Documents\PaletteShellScripts, but is configurable from PaletteShell's Settings), run "Reload scripts" in the palette, and they show up as searchable, runnable commands.

💡 You can reach this repository from inside the palette via the "Find more scripts" command.

📂 Repository layout

Every script lives under scripts/, organized into one folder per author:

scripts/
├── README.md              ← author folder convention
├── <author-a>/
│   ├── README.md          ← who they are + index of their scripts
│   ├── Some-Script.ps1
│   └── Another-Script.ps1
└── <author-b>/
    ├── README.md
    └── Cool-Script.ps1

Each author owns a single folder named after their GitHub handle and is responsible for the scripts inside it. This keeps contributions isolated, makes attribution obvious, and avoids naming collisions between people who happen to write a Format-Json.ps1.

🗂️ index.json

index.json at the repo root is a machine-readable catalog of every script in this repository. It's generated from scripts/ by tools/Build-Index.ps1 and committed automatically by a GitHub Actions workflow after every merge to main — don't hand-edit it, and you don't need to touch it in your PR.

🚀 Using a script

1. Open an author's folder under scripts/ and pick a script.
2. Copy the .ps1 file into your scripts folder (use "Open scripts folder" in the palette to get there — it defaults to Documents\PaletteShellScripts, but is configurable from Settings).
3. Run "Reload scripts" in the palette. The script now appears as a command.

ℹ️ Scripts may declare a target host (pwsh or powershell), parameters, an icon, and other behavior via [Script*] attributes. PaletteShell reads this metadata without executing the script. Review any script before you run it.

✍️ Contributing

Add your own collection under scripts/<your-github-handle>/. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full guide, including the expected script header format and a template.

📜 License

Released under the MIT License. By contributing, you agree that your scripts are shared under the same license.