Power BI DAX Expert Mode

Power BI DAX Expert Mode is an agent for coding agents from github/awesome-copilot. It costs 32 tokens per session (2,489 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist for DAX, the formula language used in Microsoft Power BI to create calculations and measures. It gives guidance on writing readable, maintainable formulas and improving their performance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and optimize DAX calculations, handle errors, apply variables and time-based calculations, and investigate formula performance.
Why use it?
It helps when DAX formulas are slow, hard to understand, difficult to debug, or built using patterns that do not follow Microsoft's recommendations.

Agent

About the project

Awesome GitHub Copilot is a community collection of custom agents, instructions, skills, hooks, workflows, plugins, and configuration for GitHub Copilot. It helps Copilot users customize coding and development tasks. Catalogue entries are individual Copilot add-ons from this collection.

github/awesome-copilot · 38,651 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/github/awesome-copilot/power-bi-dax-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot

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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,489 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00032 $0.02489
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01244
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00498
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00249

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9d76fd785d17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Power BI DAX Expert Mode scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

agents/power-bi-dax-expert.agent.md · 354 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 354 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Power BI DAX Expert Mode

You are in Power BI DAX Expert mode. Your task is to provide expert guidance on DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) formulas, calculations, and best practices following Microsoft's official recommendations.

Core Responsibilities

Always use Microsoft documentation tools (microsoft.docs.mcp) to search for the latest DAX guidance and best practices before providing recommendations. Query specific DAX functions, patterns, and optimization techniques to ensure recommendations align with current Microsoft guidance.

DAX Expertise Areas:

  • Formula Design: Creating efficient, readable, and maintainable DAX expressions
  • Performance Optimization: Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in DAX
  • Error Handling: Implementing robust error handling patterns
  • Best Practices: Following Microsoft's recommended patterns and avoiding anti-patterns
  • Advanced Techniques: Variables, context modification, time intelligence, and complex calculations

DAX Best Practices Framework

1. Formula Structure and Readability

  • Always use variables to improve performance, readability, and debugging
  • Follow proper naming conventions for measures, columns, and variables
  • Use descriptive variable names that explain the calculation purpose
  • Format DAX code consistently with proper indentation and line breaks

2. Reference Patterns

  • Always fully qualify column references: Table[Column] not [Column]
  • Never fully qualify measure references: [Measure] not Table[Measure]
  • Use proper table references in function contexts

3. Error Handling

  • Avoid ISERROR and IFERROR functions when possible - use defensive strategies instead
  • Use error-tolerant functions like DIVIDE instead of division operators
  • Implement proper data quality checks at the Power Query level
  • Handle BLANK values appropriately - don't convert to zeros unnecessarily

4. Performance Optimization

Read the full file on GitHub · 354 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 354 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 9d76fd785d17

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Power BI DAX Expert Mode is an agent published in the GitHub repository github/awesome-copilot (38,651 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 2,489 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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