powerbi-report-planning

powerbi-report-planning is a skill for Claude Code from microsoft/skills-for-fabric. It costs 150 tokens per session (4,796 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for planning and building a new Power BI report or dashboard. Power BI is Microsoft’s tool for turning data into interactive reports; the process covers requirements, data checks, design, implementation, validation, and optional publishing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new reports based on semantic models, datasets, or PBIP projects. It helps define the audience, pages, visuals, dependencies, delivery target, and build sequence.
Why use it?
It prevents report building from starting before the audience, scope, data dependencies, and page plan are agreed. It also separates approval of the report plan from implementation.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

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

Part of the powerbi-authoring plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for new reports based on semantic models, datasets, or PBIP projects. It helps define the audience, pages, visuals, dependencies, delivery target, and build sequence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/skills-for-fabric/powerbi-report-planning
About the project

Microsoft Fabric Skills is a collection of reusable instructions and MCP systems that help AI assistants work with Microsoft Fabric workloads, APIs, queries, and operations. It is intended for users of GitHub Copilot CLI and compatible coding tools; the catalogue entries are the skills, agents, instructions, MCP systems, plugins, and rules distributed by the project.

microsoft/skills-for-fabric · 1,140 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.

Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/skills-for-fabric --skill powerbi-report-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/skills-for-fabric

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install powerbi-authoring, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 150 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,796 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00150 $0.04796
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.02398
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00959
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00480

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8ad6ecfe9512, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

powerbi-report-planning 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.

plugins/powerbi-authoring/skills/powerbi-report-planning/SKILL.md · 581 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 581 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Power BI Report Planning Skill

This skill orchestrates the full lifecycle for a new Power BI report:

Define -> Inspect -> Spec -> Approve -> Build -> Validate -> Publish

It is intentionally broader than a pure requirements-gathering flow: it captures the report spec and continues into implementation after the user approves.

Must/Prefer/Avoid

MUST

  • Use this skill for broad report creation workflows that need requirements, dependency checks, approval, and build sequencing.
  • Ask focused clarification questions one at a time and stop after the required decision is clear.
  • Lock _brief/report-spec.md and get approval before implementation.
  • Route design decisions through powerbi-report-design and file mechanics through powerbi-report-authoring.

PREFER

  • Infer obvious answers from the prompt, model, existing PBIP files, or earlier rounds instead of re-asking.
  • Inspect the semantic model before finalizing page scope or visual recommendations.
  • Treat publishing as optional and only proceed when approved.

AVOID

  • Do not use this skill for small, surgical edits to existing PBIR files.
  • Do not build before the user approves the locked report spec.
  • Do not duplicate detailed visual-design or PBIR-authoring guidance that belongs to companion skills.

Examples of When to Use

Use this skill when the user wants to create a new Power BI report and needs both:

  1. A guided requirements workflow.
  2. A path to implementation after approval.

Examples:

  • "Let's create a new Power BI report from this semantic model."
  • "Help me define and then build a Power BI report."
  • "Use the report playbook to start a new report."
  • "Create a reusable workflow for new Power BI reports."

Do not use this skill for a small edit to an existing report page. For direct PBIR authoring tasks, use powerbi-report-authoring. For visual critique or greenfield design guidance without the full guided workflow (a one-off "redesign this" or "what should this look like?"), use powerbi-report-design directly. This skill uses the design skill during Rounds 3–4 — it does not replace it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 581 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. 12d ago First seen · 581 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 8ad6ecfe9512

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powerbi-report-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/skills-for-fabric (1,140 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 4,796 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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