Diagnostics & Reporting
ANVIL
BIOS / UEFI / firmware audit.
Answers "is this machine's firmware in a supportable state?" before a deployment or OS upgrade. Reports system identity, BIOS vendor/version/age, firmware type with Secure Boot state, vendor update-tool detection (Dell Command, HP, Lenovo, Surface), and pending Windows Update firmware — with a red/yellow/green readiness verdict.
Quick Launch
Run ANVIL
Run in an elevated PowerShell window. Downloads anvil.ps1
from CursedTechnocrat/TechnicianToolkit and executes it.
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; $f="$(Get-Location)\anvil.ps1"; irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CursedTechnocrat/TechnicianToolkit/main/anvil.ps1 -OutFile $f; [IO.File]::WriteAllText($f,[IO.File]::ReadAllText($f,[Text.Encoding]::UTF8),[Text.UTF8Encoding]::new($true)); & $f