windows-builder

Build Windows images with Packer using WinRM communicator and PowerShell provisioners. Use when creating Windows AMIs, Azure images, or VMware templates.

1.47x

Quality

93%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

100%

1.47x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

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Advisory

Suggest reviewing before use

Evaluation results

100%

AWS Windows Server 2022 AMI with Packer

WinRM communicator configuration for AWS Windows builds

Criteria

Without context

With context

WinRM communicator

100%

WinRM SSL enabled

100%

WinRM insecure flag

100%

WinRM timeout

100%

WinRM username

100%

User data file

100%

PowerShell wrapper tags

100%

WinRM quickconfig

100%

Firewall ports opened

100%

AMI name with timestamp

100%

source_ami_filter most_recent

100%

AMI owners = amazon

100%

12%

Baking Developer Tools into a Windows AMI

PowerShell provisioner and Chocolatey software installation

Criteria

Without context

With context

Execution policy in Chocolatey step

100%

Chocolatey install URL

100%

Chocolatey iex invocation

100%

choco install Chrome

100%

choco install 7-Zip

100%

IIS via Install-WindowsFeature

100%

PowerShell provisioner type

100%

WinRM communicator

100%

AMI name with timestamp

100%

User data file for WinRM

100%

76%

Fully Patched and Optimized Windows Server AMI

Windows Updates, restart handling, and image cleanup

Criteria

Without context

With context

NuGet provider install

100%

PSWindowsUpdate module install

100%

PSWindowsUpdate import

100%

Get-WindowsUpdate invocation

100%

Update provisioner timeout

30%

100%

windows-restart provisioner

20%

100%

Restart timeout

62%

100%

Temp files cleanup

100%

wuauserv stop before cleanup

100%

SoftwareDistribution cleanup

60%

100%

wuauserv restart after cleanup

100%

Repository: hashicorp/agent-skills
Commit: 9f2ede9

Evaluated: 21 days ago
Agent: Claude Code
Model: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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AWS Windows Server 2022 AMI with Packer Baking Developer Tools into a Windows AMI Fully Patched and Optimized Windows Server AMI

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