Power BI Report

Power BI Report is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MinaSaad1/pbi-cli. It costs 150 tokens per session (1,862 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for creating and checking Power BI PBIR report projects, where a report is stored as folders of JSON files describing pages, visuals, settings, and data references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scaffold a report, add a dataset reference, validate its JSON-based structure, preview it, inspect report information, or work with a .pbip project.
Why use it?
It avoids needing Power BI Desktop for many project tasks and provides a consistent way to create, validate, preview, and inspect report structure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is pbi report create ./MyProject --name "Sales" --dataset-path "../Sales.Dataset".

Good fit Use it to scaffold a report, add a dataset reference, validate its JSON-based structure, preview it, inspect report information, or work with a .pbip project.

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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-report

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 1,862 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 $0.01862
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.00931
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00372
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00186

Measured 9d ago against content hash aab42c896e01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 9d 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-report/SKILL.md · 244 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 244 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Power BI Report Skill

Manage Power BI PBIR report projects at the top level -- scaffolding, validation, preview, and Desktop integration. No connection to Power BI Desktop is needed for most operations.

PBIR Format

PBIR (Enhanced Report Format) stores reports as a folder of JSON files:

MyReport.Report/
  definition.pbir            # dataset reference
  definition/
    version.json             # PBIR version
    report.json              # report settings, theme
    pages/
      pages.json             # page order
      page_abc123/
        page.json            # page settings
        visuals/
          visual_def456/
            visual.json      # visual type, position, bindings

Each file has a public JSON schema from Microsoft for validation. PBIR is GA as of January 2026 and the default format in Desktop since March 2026.

Creating a Report

# Scaffold a new report project
pbi report create ./MyProject --name "Sales Report"

# With dataset reference
pbi report create ./MyProject --name "Sales" --dataset-path "../Sales.Dataset"

This creates the full folder structure with definition.pbir, report.json, version.json, and an empty pages/ directory.

Report Info and Validation

# Show report metadata summary (pages, theme, dataset)
pbi report info
pbi report info --path ./MyReport.Report

# Validate report structure and JSON files
pbi report validate

Validation checks:

  • Required files exist (definition.pbir, report.json, version.json)
  • All JSON files parse without errors
  • Schema URLs are present and consistent
  • Page references in pages.json match actual page folders

Preview

Start a live HTML preview of the report layout:

pbi report preview

Opens a browser showing all pages with visual placeholders, types, positions, and data bindings. The preview auto-refreshes when files change.

Requires the preview optional dependency: pip install pbi-cli-tool[preview]

Desktop Integration

Read the full file on GitHub · 244 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. 9d ago First seen · 244 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A aab42c896e01

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Power BI Report is a skill published in the GitHub repository MinaSaad1/pbi-cli (452 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 1,862 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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