design-power-bi-report

design-power-bi-report is a skill for Claude Code from jonathan-pap/powerbi-report-mcp. It costs 67 tokens per session (898 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing the appearance and information order of a Power BI report. It starts by deciding the single question each page should answer, then organizes the main metric, trends, breakdowns, and details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing a page's headline metric, visual hierarchy, colors, typography, KPI cards, slicers, and the number and placement of visuals.
Why use it?
It helps avoid crowded dashboards where too many visuals compete for attention or the reader cannot tell what matters most.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the powerbi-report-builder plugin — 3 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when choosing a page's headline metric, visual hierarchy, colors, typography, KPI cards, slicers, and the number and placement of visuals.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jonathan-pap/powerbi-report-mcp/design-power-bi-report
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.

Any agent
npx skills add jonathan-pap/powerbi-report-mcp --skill design-power-bi-report
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-pap/powerbi-report-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install powerbi-report-builder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 898 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 $0.00067 $0.00898
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00449
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00090

Measured 12d ago against content hash f96b302a0c8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-power-bi-report 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 12d 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.

plugin/skills/design-power-bi-report/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design a Power BI Report

Most "bad" Power BI reports aren't broken because of formatting or colors. They're broken because nobody decided what question the page answers before placing visuals. Design starts with a mental model, not a color picker.

Mental model — before you place a single visual

  1. Name the page's one job. Every page answers exactly one question. "How did we do last quarter?" "Which customers are at risk?" If you can't write it in one sentence, ask the user. Two-question pages become two pages.
  2. Pick the headline number. The page's job translates to one most-important metric. It goes in the largest, leftmost, top-most card. Everything else is context or breakdown for that number.
  3. Context before detail. Headline first; then trend/variance row; then breakdown by segment; then detail tables at the bottom. This is the 3-30-300 rule expressed as layout.
  4. Delete rather than add. Every visual competes for attention. A 5-visual page where all 5 matter reads better than an 8-visual page where 5 matter.
  5. Pre-attentive attributes are a budget. Position, size, color, motion — you have roughly one of each to spend per page. If every card is red, nothing is urgent. Spend the color budget on the one thing the viewer should notice.
  6. Stop at the theme. Polish belongs to the developer. Set pbir_set_report_theme once and let it cascade. Avoid per-visual pbir_format_visual unless the user explicitly asked. Inline only titles, bindings, and semantic colors (gains green / losses red).

Typography (Segoe UI defaults)

Element Size Weight
Page title (banner) 20-24pt SemiBold
Section header 14-16pt SemiBold
Card value 24-32pt Bold
Card label 10-12pt Regular
Axis / data labels 9-12pt Regular
Footnote / source 8-9pt Regular

Color budget

  • Neutral base (greys, off-white) for chrome — banners, borders, backgrounds.
  • One brand accent for the headline metric and primary CTAs.
  • Two semantic colors — green for gains, red for losses. Never use red for "important" — only for "bad."
  • Categorical palette of 4-6 muted hues for breakdown charts. Avoid rainbow.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 57 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A f96b302a0c8e

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design-power-bi-report is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonathan-pap/powerbi-report-mcp (19 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 898 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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