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Extend the upstream PowerShell definition with quoted/here-strings, nested expandable expressions, scoped/braced/splat variables, backtick escapes, case-insensitive keywords and word operators, cmdlets, parameters, type literals, and numeric suffixes while preserving exact source text. Keep upstream's ps alias alongside pwsh and ps1, default registration, and selective imports.

Include a report-pipeline showcase, documentation, regression tests, benchmark/size profiles, and a minor changeset. Interpolation stays inside the string token; full command/argument disambiguation and symbol resolution remain outside scope.

Merged upstream main badda764 and resolved conflicts in 25996c4fe8893d512e7f5fdbdccc4b5cdc29b341. Swift support is already upstream; the short-name macro fix remains separate in #33. The earlier branch head is preserved at kahwee/highlight:backup/swift-powershell-20261021 (e5f4ce1).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added PowerShell syntax highlighting with powershell, pwsh, and ps1 identifiers.
    • Added a PowerShell showcase guide and example report script.
    • PowerShell can be imported selectively or included in the default highlighter.
  • Documentation
    • Updated language references, support tables, installation guidance, and bundle-size information.
    • Added PowerShell benchmarking and highlighting examples.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved dark-mode styling for highlighted code in visual comparisons.

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The change adds PowerShell syntax highlighting with powershell, pwsh, and ps1 names. It registers the language for direct and default use, adds tests and tooling support, and updates the showcase, language references, and bundle-size documentation.

Changes: PowerShell highlighting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tokenizer and showcase
src/languages/powershell.ts, test/showcases/Get-StationReport.ps1
Adds PowerShell token rules and scanners for variables, comments, strings, and nested expressions. Adds a station-report script that serves as a highlighting sample.
Language registration and test coverage
src/index.ts, src/languages/index.ts, scripts/language-utils.mjs, test/fixtures.ts, test/real-doc-fixtures.test.ts, test/powershell.test.ts, scripts/test-package.mjs
Registers PowerShell in exports, the language type, and the default language list. Adds alias handling and tests for tokenization, Markdown fences, fixtures, and isolated imports.
Benchmark and bundle-size integration
scripts/bench.mjs, scripts/generate-visual-compare.mjs, scripts/measure-size.mjs, docs/guides/performance.md, docs/test-strategy.md, README.md
Adds PowerShell benchmark, visual-comparison, and size profiles. Updates benchmark samples and bundle measurements for the 40-language aggregate.
Guides and language references
docs/guides/powershell.md, docs/config.json, docs/language-support.md, docs/reference/languages.md, docs/reference/default-entry.md, docs/installation.md, skills/configure-selective-highlighting/references/languages.md, .changeset/powershell.md, README.md
Adds the PowerShell guide and updates language listings, default-language counts, installation guidance, and the release changeset.

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Change: Feature

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Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1317f

Swift highlighting introduces quadratic scanning for long sequences of hash characters. Applications that highlight untrusted source or Markdown could suffer synchronous CPU exhaustion. HTML escaping and language-instance isolation remain intact, but deployment-level input limits and affected consumers are unknown.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · observed: The new Swift scanner repeatedly rescans rejected hash prefixes, producing quadratic work on hash-only input. Default Swift registration and Markdown fence delegation make this synchronous CPU amplification reachable from caller-controlled source. Availability impact depends on consumers accepting untrusted content without adequate limits.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The supported availability exposure is the process or worker synchronously highlighting attacker-controlled Swift source or Markdown containing a Swift fence. No privileged access is required beyond the ability to submit such content. Downstream services, tenants, and deployment limits are not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — An attacker supplies a long hash-only sequence as Swift source, directly or within a Swift Markdown fence. Each scanner position revisits the remaining hash suffix, amplifying input length into quadratic CPU work. This can impair availability where untrusted highlighting shares an execution thread with other work; deployed exploitability and timing have not been measured.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The new definitions return token ranges rather than executable code or raw HTML. The unchanged shared renderer escapes token text, class values, language attributes, and data values. These controls preserve the source-to-markup boundary but do not address CPU amplification.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Unterminated lexical constructs terminate at input end, nested interpolation is depth-limited, and core normalizes token ranges. These checks contain malformed ranges and recursive stack growth, but the Swift hash-prefix rescan remains outside those protections.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Consume or otherwise recognize rejected raw-delimiter prefixes without rescanning every suffix. For untrusted-content integrations, explicit source-size and execution-budget limits would provide additional availability containment; those controls are not established by the inspected evidence.
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Followed up on the three review findings in 7b7bb56:

  • Swift now skips rejected hash runs in one step, including inside interpolation, without emitting spurious string tokens. Added coverage for 100,000 hashes and valid raw string/regex delimiters.
  • Removed the unused PowerShell Limit parameter from the showcase and guide; the example's final pipeline retains Select-Object -First 5. Added a check that the documented example matches its canonical source.
  • Refreshed bundle figures from the final measurement: all languages are 12,449 gzip bytes against the unchanged 12,700-byte budget.

Local Node 26.10.0 validation passed: pnpm run verify (127 tests, documentation/skills, package and packed-runtime checks, all 19 size profiles, and benchmarks), pnpm run changeset:status, and git diff --check.

CI run #61 is action_required, awaiting maintainer workflow approval; CI verification and the runtime matrix have not run. Could a maintainer review and approve the fork workflow so those checks can execute?

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Thanks for this. I have been adding a batch of other languages in #27 (Java, Kotlin, Rust, Ruby, C#, Dart, Lua, Perl) and left Swift out because this PR already covers it. To make sure the two fit together I ran the same checks I used there on this branch, with Claude's help: realistic docs-style samples for both languages, roughly 60k-character repeated-delimiter inputs for timing, and pnpm run verify.

The scanners held up on every nested string, raw string, and nested comment case I tried. The inline suggestions are the handful of things that came out of it. With all six applied, pnpm run verify still passes including the 127 existing tests, both languages stay under 20 ms on the timing inputs, and each language bundle gets about 15 gzip bytes smaller. Each comment carries an optional regression test that fails without its suggestion.

A few non-code things I noticed while comparing with how earlier languages were added (#17, #18):

  • scripts/language-utils.mjs (supportedLanguages and the pwsh / ps1 aliases), skills/configure-selective-highlighting/references/languages.md (this one ships in the npm package), docs/reference/default-entry.md ("30 canonical language names"), and docs/installation.md ("roughly 11 KB gzip") do not mention the new languages yet. verify does not catch these.
  • docs/guides/performance.md re-measures the TSX, Octane, Docs, and theme-helper figures and rewrites the note about CI compression. Those profiles are not affected by this change, so the differences look like local Node/zlib variation; leaving the existing figures might make the diff easier to review.
  • The six screenshots under docs/assets/swift-powershell/ (about 1.3 MB) are not referenced from any docs page, only from the PR description. That is the maintainers' call; I am only flagging it because docs/ has no binary assets today.

#27 and this PR edit the same shared lists and size numbers (README, the performance and test-strategy docs, scripts/measure-size.mjs, test/real-doc-fixtures.test.ts). If this lands first I will rebase #27 onto it.

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Thanks for the careful review and concrete examples, @Sheraff. They helped make this contribution more focused.

I’ve reconciled the PR with current main, preserved the upstream Swift work, and added regression coverage for the PowerShell suggestions and the Swift macro case. Registration, aliases, docs, and the showcase are updated too.

Local verification passes with 226 tests, 27 size profiles, and 20 benchmark profiles, plus package and desktop/mobile checks. The default bundle increases by 790 gzip bytes; the unrelated size profiles are unchanged.

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The documented size metrics match the size suite.

scripts/measure-size.mjs defines 27 profiles, and the all profile uses a 18,750-byte gzip budget. The reported 19 profiles and 12,700-byte budget do not contradict these documented limits; they represent a different measurement result or subset.

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@kahwee kahwee changed the title Add Swift and PowerShell highlighting with rich language showcases Add isolated PowerShell highlighting and showcase Oct 21, 2026

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@Sheraff, could you take another look at the PowerShell-only diff? I split the remaining Swift macro fix into #33, so the two can be reviewed independently. The PowerShell tests cover your unterminated-variable and member-keyword cases, plus escaped unbraced variables. The registration/docs gaps are addressed, and unrelated selective-size profiles and budgets are unchanged.

@tannerlinsley, could you approve the pending fork workflows so CI can run? This PR's CI and skills check, plus CI for #33, currently show action_required with no jobs run. The local verification results are recorded in each PR description; these are not CI passes.

For a smaller review, #33 is just the short-name macro fix, regression test, and patch changeset, with no PowerShell dependency. Thanks!

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@kahwee kahwee changed the title Add isolated PowerShell highlighting and showcase Extend PowerShell highlighting and add a showcase Oct 28, 2026
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