powerbi-modeling

powerbi-modeling is a skill for Codex from PracticalSwan/agent-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,111 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing and maintaining Power BI semantic models, which organize data for reports and dashboards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design star schemas, write DAX measures, configure table relationships, set row-level security, and review model performance.
Why use it?
It helps keep tables, calculations, relationships, access rules, and model performance understandable and reliable.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to design star schemas, write DAX measures, configure table relationships, set row-level security, and review model performance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/powerbi-modeling
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 PracticalSwan/agent-skills --skill powerbi-modeling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PracticalSwan/agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,111 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.
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 $0.00046 $0.01111
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00556
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00111

Measured today against content hash 5cf6e4e14bc6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

powerbi-modeling 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/powerbi-model-audit.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

powerbi-modeling/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Power BI Modeling

Tech Stack Target / Version: Power BI Desktop current release, Tabular Editor, DAX Studio, and Fabric semantic-model workflows.

Use this skill when the work is inside a Power BI semantic model rather than a generic SQL schema or spreadsheet.

  • Leverage native parallel subagent dispatch and 200k+ context windows where available.

Activation Conditions

Use symptom -> action triggers: when one matches, apply this skill and verify with the protocol below.

  • Designing or cleaning up a star schema
  • Creating or reviewing DAX measures
  • Configuring relationships and cross-filter direction
  • Implementing row-level security
  • Auditing model health and performance

Practical Workflow

  1. Inspect the current model before changing anything.
  2. Classify tables as dimension, fact, bridge, or helper tables.
  3. Prefer explicit measures over implicit aggregation.
  4. Keep relationships simple and single-direction unless the use case is proven.
  5. Hide technical fields from report authors.

MCP Reality

Power BI model tooling is host-specific. If your client exposes a Power BI modeling MCP server, inspect the available operations first and map them to the model areas you need: connections, tables, columns, measures, relationships, DAX queries, and security roles.

For Microsoft documentation, the Microsoft Learn MCP server is a good companion. Prefer:

  • microsoft_docs_search_by_product with power-bi
  • microsoft_docs_fetch for the final page

Cross-Client Portability

This skill is written to stay usable across GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex.

  • GitHub Copilot: keep the folder in a Copilot-visible skill path or wrap the workflow in project instructions when folder discovery is unavailable.
  • Claude Code: keep the folder in a local skills directory or a compatible plugin source.
  • Codex: install or sync the folder into $CODEX_HOME/skills/powerbi-modeling and restart Codex after major changes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files 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.

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. today Changed · +1 lines 5cf6e4e14bc6
  2. 2d ago Changed c1b113533a85
  3. 5d ago First seen · 106 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A d4fe7f8e6a5d

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powerbi-modeling is a skill published in the GitHub repository PracticalSwan/agent-skills (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,111 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.