A guide to setting up automated validation, testing, and deployment for Power BI Desktop Projects. Power BI is Microsoft’s tool for building data reports and dashboards; PBIP is its source-control-friendly project format.

Use it to build CI/CD pipelines, run BPA and DAX checks, test row-level security, manage PBIP files in Git, and deploy to the Power BI service.

It helps teams check report code and data rules automatically, promote changes between environments, and publish them reliably.

How kpbray/power-bi-agent-skills configures Claude Code and Codex

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to kpbray/power-bi-agent-skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kpbray/power-bi-agent-skills/master/.github/skills/deployment/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kpbray/power-bi-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,563 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00029	$0.03563
Opus 5.5	$0.00012	$0.01425
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00006	$0.00713
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00356

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 0b6217e786ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deployment 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 2mo 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.

.github/skills/deployment/SKILL.md · 548 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 548 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deployment Skill

This skill helps implement CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for Power BI Desktop Projects (PBIP).

When to Use This Skill

Setting up automated validation pipelines
Creating deployment workflows
Implementing BPA checks in CI
Configuring environment promotion
Automating Power BI Service deployments
Managing PBIP projects in source control

DevOps Overview

Pipeline Stages

┌─────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌─────────┐    ┌────────┐
│  Build  │ →  │ Validate │ →  │  Test   │ →  │ Deploy │
└─────────┘    └──────────┘    └─────────┘    └────────┘
     │              │               │              │
   Compile      BPA Rules       RLS Test      Publish to
   TMDL/PBIR    DAX Check      Data Check    Power BI

Tools

Tool	Purpose
Tabular Editor CLI	TMDL validation, BPA checks
Power BI REST API	Publish, refresh, admin
pbi-tools	Alternative PBIX/PBIP tooling
Fabric Git Integration	Native Git support

Git Branching Strategy

Recommended: GitFlow for Power BI

main (production)
  ↑
release/v1.0
  ↑
develop
  ↑
feature/add-sales-measures

Branch Protection Rules

# GitHub branch protection
main:
  required_reviews: 2
  require_status_checks: true
  required_checks:
    - bpa-validation
    - tmdl-syntax
develop:
  required_reviews: 1
  require_status_checks: true

Commit Message Convention

<type>(<scope>): <description>

Types:
- feat: New feature
- fix: Bug fix
- refactor: Code refactoring
- docs: Documentation
- test: Tests
- ci: CI/CD changes

Examples:
feat(dax): add YoY% time intelligence measures
fix(model): correct relationship cardinality
refactor(query): optimize Sales query for folding

GitHub Actions Pipelines

Basic Validation Pipeline

# .github/workflows/validate.yml
name: Validate PBIP

on:
  push:
    branches: [main, develop]
  pull_request:
    branches: [main, develop]

jobs:
  validate:
    runs-on: windows-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Install Tabular Editor
        run: |
          choco install tabular-editor -y

      - name: Validate TMDL Syntax
        run: |
          # Find semantic model folder
          $modelPath = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Filter "*.pbism" |
            Select-Object -First 1 |
            Split-Path -Parent

          # Validate with Tabular Editor
          TabularEditor.exe "$modelPath" -S

      - name: Run BPA Rules
        run: |
          $modelPath = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Filter "*.pbism" |
            Select-Object -First 1 |
            Split-Path -Parent

          # Run BPA with rules file
          TabularEditor.exe "$modelPath" `
            -A "BPA-Rules.json" `
            -V
        continue-on-error: false

Read the full file on GitHub · 548 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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.

2mo ago First seen · 548 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 0b6217e786ec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deployment is a skill published in the GitHub repository kpbray/power-bi-agent-skills (10 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 3,563 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

Analytics and metrics CI and CD DevOps and cloud

deployment next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
deploymentkpbray/power-bi-agent-skills	Skill	10	9mo ago	MIT	A	29	Claude Code, Codex
chinese-git-workflowjnMetaCode/superpowers-zh	Skill	8.5k	11d ago	MIT	A	69	Claude Code
atmos-profilescloudposse/atmos	Skill	1.4k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	35	Claude Code
webhook-managementhoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor	Skill	1.1k	yesterday	MIT	A	56	Claude Code, Codex
monorepo-managementwshobson/agents	Skill	42k	yesterday	MIT	C	54	Claude Code
managing-github-actions-secretsPostHog/posthog-foss	Skill	728	yesterday	MIT	A	67	Claude Code, Codex
postman-newman-automationLambdaTest/agent-skills	Skill	390	yesterday	MIT	A	156	Claude Code, Codex

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