Power BI Diagnostics

Power BI Diagnostics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MinaSaad1/pbi-cli. It costs 104 tokens per session (906 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating and maintaining Power BI PBIR report projects. PBIR stores a report as folders of JSON files, so its structure can be inspected and version-controlled.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scaffold reports, manage PBIR projects, validate their structure, preview them, and connect them to a dataset.
Why use it?
It helps developers create, validate, preview, and manage reports as project files rather than relying only on the Power BI Desktop interface.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is pbi database export-tmdl ./audit-export/.

Good fit Use it to scaffold reports, manage PBIR projects, validate their structure, preview them, and connect them to a dataset.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MinaSaad1/pbi-cli
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/minasaad1/pbi-cli/power-bi-diagnostics

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 906 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 $0.00104 $0.00906
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.00453
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00181
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00091

Measured 8d ago against content hash c9ad4496eaa6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Power BI Diagnostics 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 8d 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-diagnostics/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Power BI Diagnostics Skill

Troubleshoot performance, trace queries, and verify the pbi-cli environment.

Prerequisites

pipx install pbi-cli-tool
pbi-cli skills install
pbi connect

Environment Check

# Verify pythonnet and .NET DLLs are installed
pbi setup

# Show detailed environment info (version, DLL paths, pythonnet status)
pbi setup --info
pbi --json setup --info

# Check CLI version
pbi --version

Quick Troubleshooting

If pbi-cli isn't working, run these checks in order:

# 1. Is pbi-cli installed correctly?
pbi --version
pbi setup --info

# 2. Is Power BI Desktop running with a model open?
pbi connect

# 3. Is the connection still alive?
pbi connections last

# 4. Can you query the model?
pbi dax execute "EVALUATE ROW(\"test\", 1)"

Model Health Check

# Quick model overview
pbi --json model get

# Object counts (tables, columns, measures, relationships, partitions)
pbi --json model stats

# List all tables with column/measure counts
pbi --json table list

Query Tracing

Capture diagnostic events during DAX query execution:

# Start a trace
pbi trace start

# Execute the query you want to profile
pbi dax execute "EVALUATE SUMMARIZECOLUMNS(Products[Category], \"Total\", SUM(Sales[Amount]))"

# Stop the trace
pbi trace stop

# Fetch captured trace events
pbi --json trace fetch

# Export trace events to a file
pbi trace export ./trace-output.json

Cache Management

# Clear the formula engine cache (do this before benchmarking)
pbi dax clear-cache

Connection Diagnostics

# List all saved connections
pbi connections list
pbi --json connections list

# Show the last-used connection
pbi connections last

# Reconnect to a specific data source
pbi connect -d localhost:54321

# Disconnect
pbi disconnect

Workflow: Profile a Slow Query

# 1. Clear cache for a clean benchmark
pbi dax clear-cache

# 2. Start tracing
pbi trace start

# 3. Run the slow query
pbi dax execute "EVALUATE SUMMARIZECOLUMNS(Products[Category], \"Total\", SUM(Sales[Amount]))" --timeout 300

# 4. Stop tracing
pbi trace stop

# 5. Export trace for analysis
pbi trace export ./slow-query-trace.json

# 6. Review trace events
pbi --json trace fetch

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 8d ago First seen · 160 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A c9ad4496eaa6

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Power BI Diagnostics is a skill published in the GitHub repository MinaSaad1/pbi-cli (452 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 906 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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