powerbi-modifying-theme-json

powerbi-modifying-theme-json is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from santoshkanthety/powerbi-agent. It costs 180 tokens per session (4,241 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Power BI report-theme guide for designing and checking the file that controls a report's shared colors, fonts, and visual formatting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, enforce, audit, or validate themes, especially when a report uses the default theme or contains many individual formatting overrides.
Why use it?
It reduces inconsistent formatting and avoids repeating the same style settings inside every chart or visual. Centralized styles are easier to update and review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create, enforce, audit, or validate themes, especially when a report uses the default theme or contains many individual formatting overrides.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/santoshkanthety/powerbi-agent/powerbi-modifying-theme-json
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 santoshkanthety/powerbi-agent --skill powerbi-modifying-theme-json
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/santoshkanthety/powerbi-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 180 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,241 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 $0.00180 $0.04241
Opus 5 $0.00090 $0.02121
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00848
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00424

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5d6143384983, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

powerbi-modifying-theme-json 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 12d 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.

skills/powerbi-modifying-theme-json/SKILL.md · 310 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 310 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Power BI Report Themes

Why Themes Matter

A report without a well-designed theme accumulates formatting debt. Every visual ends up with its own bespoke title size, shadow toggle, border style, and hardcoded colors in visual.json. This creates three problems:

  1. Inconsistency. Visuals drift apart as authors format each one individually. One card has 14pt titles, another has 12pt; one chart has shadows, another doesn't. The report looks unfinished.
  2. Fragility. Rebranding or updating the visual style means touching every visual.json individually. A report with 40 visuals across 8 pages means 40 files to edit. With a theme, it's one file.
  3. Bloated visual JSON. Each bespoke override adds lines to visual.json, making reports harder to diff, review, and maintain. A clean visual.json should contain field bindings, position, and conditional formatting; everything else should come from the theme.

Reports using the default Power BI theme or a minimal custom theme (just dataColors and a name) are leaving most formatting to Power BI's built-in defaults, which change between Desktop releases. A well-designed theme locks in the intended appearance.

Signs a theme needs attention:

  • Many visuals have objects or visualContainerObjects with redundant formatting
  • Visuals of the same type look inconsistent (different title fonts, shadows on some but not others)
  • The theme JSON has few or no visualStyles entries
  • The report uses a built-in theme like "Default" or "Classic" without customization

Tooling preference: Use pbir CLI when available (pbir theme colors, pbir visuals clear-formatting). Fall back to direct jq modification when unavailable. Always validate after every write.

Tip: Theme JSON files can be 75KB+ and 2000+ lines. Do not read the full monolithic file. Use pbir theme serialize to split into small editable files (see Author/Modify workflow below), or use jq to extract only specific keys. Serialized fragments from the serialize/build workflow are small and safe to read directly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 310 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. 12d ago First seen · 310 lines · 180 tokens per session scan A 5d6143384983

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powerbi-modifying-theme-json is a skill published in the GitHub repository santoshkanthety/powerbi-agent (2 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 180 tokens to every session and 4,241 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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