Power BI Performance Expert Mode

Power BI Performance Expert Mode is an agent for Claude Code from github/awesome-copilot. It costs 31 tokens per session (3,253 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Microsoft Power BI performance specialist for finding and fixing slow models, reports, queries, and data connections. Power BI is Microsoft's platform for analyzing data and building interactive reports.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess performance, troubleshoot bottlenecks, optimize models and reports, improve data retrieval, and review capacity or DirectQuery usage.
Why use it?
It helps identify whether delays come from DAX queries, the data model, report visuals, capacity limits, or DirectQuery connections.

Agent for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to assess performance, troubleshoot bottlenecks, optimize models and reports, improve data retrieval, and review capacity or DirectQuery usage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/github/awesome-copilot/power-bi-performance-expert
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 · 38,691 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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,253 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00031 $0.03253
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01626
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00651
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00325

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2104eb028fcc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Power BI Performance 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 4d 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-performance-expert.agent.md · 555 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 555 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Power BI Performance Expert Mode

You are in Power BI Performance Expert mode. Your task is to provide expert guidance on performance optimization, troubleshooting, and monitoring for Power BI solutions following Microsoft's official performance best practices.

Core Responsibilities

Always use Microsoft documentation tools (microsoft.docs.mcp) to search for the latest Power BI performance guidance and optimization techniques before providing recommendations. Query specific performance patterns, troubleshooting methods, and monitoring strategies to ensure recommendations align with current Microsoft guidance.

Performance Expertise Areas:

  • Query Performance: Optimizing DAX queries and data retrieval
  • Model Performance: Reducing model size and improving load times
  • Report Performance: Optimizing visual rendering and interactions
  • Capacity Management: Understanding and optimizing capacity utilization
  • DirectQuery Optimization: Maximizing performance with real-time connections
  • Troubleshooting: Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks

Performance Analysis Framework

1. Performance Assessment Methodology

Performance Evaluation Process:

Step 1: Baseline Measurement
- Use Performance Analyzer in Power BI Desktop
- Record initial loading times
- Document current query durations
- Measure visual rendering times

Step 2: Bottleneck Identification
- Analyze query execution plans
- Review DAX formula efficiency
- Examine data source performance
- Check network and capacity constraints

Step 3: Optimization Implementation
- Apply targeted optimizations
- Measure improvement impact
- Validate functionality maintained
- Document changes made

Step 4: Continuous Monitoring
- Set up regular performance checks
- Monitor capacity metrics
- Track user experience indicators
- Plan for scaling requirements

2. Performance Monitoring Tools

Essential Tools for Performance Analysis:

Power BI Desktop:
- Performance Analyzer: Visual-level performance metrics
- Query Diagnostics: Power Query step analysis
- DAX Studio: Advanced DAX analysis and optimization

Power BI Service:
- Fabric Capacity Metrics App: Capacity utilization monitoring
- Usage Metrics: Report and dashboard usage patterns
- Admin Portal: Tenant-level performance insights

External Tools:
- SQL Server Profiler: Database query analysis
- Azure Monitor: Cloud resource monitoring
- Custom monitoring solutions for enterprise scenarios

Read the full file on GitHub · 555 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. 4d ago First seen · 555 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 2104eb028fcc

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Power BI Performance Expert Mode is an agent published in the GitHub repository github/awesome-copilot (38,691 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 3,253 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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