What is Power BI Custom Visuals?

A development workflow for building custom charts and other visual components in Microsoft Power BI, a tool for analysing and presenting data. It creates the project, checks the code, packages the result, and adds it to a Power BI report.

Use it to create or update Power BI custom visuals, validate them, produce .pbiviz files, and import those visuals into PBIR reports.

It removes much of the setup and packaging work involved in turning TypeScript code into a Power BI visual. It also helps catch code and toolchain errors before import.

Power BI Custom Visuals — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by MinaSaad1

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 MinaSaad1/pbi-cli --skill power-bi-custom-visuals

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MinaSaad1/pbi-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,255 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 warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 6 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

medium MCP Rug Pull · line 60
npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.

Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
medium MCP Rug Pull · line 112
npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.

Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
medium MCP Rug Pull · line 207
npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.

Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
medium MCP Rug Pull · line 303
npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.

Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
medium MCP Rug Pull · line 170
npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.

Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
medium Excessive Agency · line 245
Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00152	$0.03255
Opus 5.5	$0.00061	$0.01302
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00030	$0.00651
Haiku 4.5	$0.00015	$0.00326

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 0f9834951ddd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Power BI Custom Visuals 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.

src/pbi_cli/skills/power-bi-custom-visuals/SKILL.md · 323 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 323 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Power BI Custom Visuals Skill

Build new Power BI custom visuals from natural language using the powerbi-visuals-tools SDK. Iteration is agent-driven on TypeScript compile errors; visual correctness is checked once at the end with the user.

This skill produces a .pbiviz package and embeds it into a PBIR report via pbi visual import-custom. The TypeScript project lives next to the .pbip folder, never inside it.

Prerequisites

The skill needs Node.js on PATH and the powerbi-visuals-tools npm package. Both are installed on first run with the user's consent; never silently.

Pinned versions (override via env vars if needed):

powerbi-visuals-tools@^5.6.0 (env: PBIVIZ_VERSION)
powerbi-visuals-api@^5.11.0 (pinned in scaffolded package.json)

The skill's edit patterns and AGENTS.md crib were written against these versions. Bump deliberately.

First-run prerequisite check

# 1. Probe Node
node --version || true

If node is missing, ask the user:

Node.js isn't installed. Custom visual development needs it. Install now? (yes/no)

Windows: winget install OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS

macOS: brew install node

Linux: use your package manager or nvm

If user says yes, run the install command appropriate for their OS and re-probe. If user says no, stop the skill with a clear message.

pbiviz itself runs through npx --yes powerbi-visuals-tools@^5.6.0, so there's no global install of the CLI itself. The first npx invocation will fetch and cache it locally.

Discovery: existing project vs fresh scaffold

The skill's first action is always discover, not scaffold.

Locate the user's PBIR project (the .pbip folder or its .Report sibling).
Look for sibling directories matching *-visual/ containing a pbiviz.json.
Branch:
- None found → fresh scaffold flow (see "Plan-then-code" below).
- One found → load it; jump to edit-validate-package-import loop.
- Multiple found → ask the user which one; do not guess.

Read the full file on GitHub · 323 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.

AGENTS-template.md 4.7 KB

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 · 323 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A 0f9834951ddd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Power BI Custom Visuals is a skill published in the GitHub repository MinaSaad1/pbi-cli (487 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 3,255 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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