Power BI Security

Power BI Security is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MinaSaad1/pbi-cli. It costs 84 tokens per session (674 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for configuring Power BI semantic-model security and perspectives with `pbi-cli`. Row-level security limits rows visible to users, while perspectives show selected tables and columns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, inspect, and remove security roles and perspectives, and to export the model for version control.
Why use it?
It helps define and inspect access rules and user-focused model views as part of a repeatable, version-controlled workflow.

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 ./model-backup/.

Good fit Use it to create, inspect, and remove security roles and perspectives, and to export the model for version control.

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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-security

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 674 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 $0.00084 $0.00674
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00337
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00067

Measured 8d ago against content hash 36628ffc0ecd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Power BI Security 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-security/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Power BI Security Skill

Manage row-level security (RLS) and perspectives for Power BI models.

Prerequisites

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

Security Roles (RLS)

# List all security roles
pbi security-role list

# Get role details
pbi security-role get "Regional Manager"

# Create a new role
pbi security-role create "Regional Manager" \
  --description "Restricts data to user's region"

# Delete a role
pbi security-role delete "Regional Manager"

Perspectives

Perspectives control which tables and columns are visible to users:

# List all perspectives
pbi perspective list

# Create a perspective
pbi perspective create "Sales View"

# Delete a perspective
pbi perspective delete "Sales View"

Workflow: Set Up RLS

# 1. Create roles
pbi security-role create "Sales Team" --description "Sales data only"
pbi security-role create "Finance Team" --description "Finance data only"

# 2. Verify roles were created
pbi --json security-role list

# 3. Export full model for version control (includes roles)
pbi database export-tmdl ./model-backup/

Workflow: Create User-Focused Perspectives

# 1. Create perspectives for different audiences
pbi perspective create "Executive Dashboard"
pbi perspective create "Sales Detail"
pbi perspective create "Finance Overview"

# 2. Verify
pbi --json perspective list

Common RLS Patterns

Region-Based Security

Create a role that filters by the authenticated user's region:

pbi security-role create "Region Filter" \
  --description "Users see only their region's data"

Then define table permissions with DAX filter expressions in the model (via TMDL or Power BI Desktop).

Department-Based Security

pbi security-role create "Department Filter" \
  --description "Users see only their department's data"

Manager Hierarchy

pbi security-role create "Manager View" \
  --description "Managers see their direct reports' data"

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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 · 113 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 36628ffc0ecd

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Power BI Security is a skill published in the GitHub repository MinaSaad1/pbi-cli (452 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 674 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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