powerbi-performance-scale

powerbi-performance-scale is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from santoshkanthety/powerbi-agent. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,396 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for making Power BI reports and their underlying data models respond faster and handle larger amounts of data. It covers storage choices, queries, memory use, and report capacity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to improve slow reports, choose between Import, DirectQuery, DirectLake, or composite models, and tune large datasets, calculations, and capacity settings.
Why use it?
It helps find and fix the causes of slow pages, timed-out queries, and models that use too many resources.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to improve slow reports, choose between Import, DirectQuery, DirectLake, or composite models, and tune large datasets, calculations, and capacity settings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/santoshkanthety/powerbi-agent/powerbi-performance-scale
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-performance-scale
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/santoshkanthety/powerbi-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,396 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 $0.00069 $0.01396
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00698
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00279
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00140

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6985cb69732e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

powerbi-performance-scale 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 11d 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-performance-scale/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Performance & Scale — Enterprise-Grade Power BI

Trigger

Activate when the user mentions: slow report, performance, DirectQuery, DirectLake, Import mode, aggregations, composite model, large dataset, timeout, query performance, DAX Studio, Performance Analyzer, V-Order, OPTIMIZE, memory, Premium, Fabric capacity, large model

What You Know

You have optimised Power BI semantic models from sub-optimal 10-second page loads down to sub-second. You understand the full query path from DAX → xmVelocity → Formula Engine → Storage Engine → source data, and where to intervene at each layer.

Storage Mode Decision Framework

Data volume & refresh needs → Choose mode:

< 1GB model, needs latest data always?  → Import Mode (default, fastest for users)
> 1GB, PII/live data required?          → DirectLake (Fabric only, best of both)
Operational live data, < 1M rows?       → DirectQuery (last resort)
Mixed: history in Import + live in DQ?  → Composite Model
> 10GB, Premium/Fabric?                 → Large Dataset Storage + Import

Import Mode Optimisation

  1. Remove unused columns — every column consumes memory
  2. Remove unused tables — check with DAX Studio dependencies
  3. Reduce cardinality — high-cardinality text columns kill compression
  4. Correct data types — INT not TEXT for numeric IDs, DATE not DATETIME when time not needed
  5. Disable auto date/time — creates hidden tables for every date column (massive size increase)
# Analyse model size and column cardinality
pbi-agent model analyse-size --port 12345
pbi-agent model unused-columns --threshold 0

DirectLake Mode (Fabric Only)

DirectLake reads directly from OneLake Delta tables — no import, no DirectQuery latency.

Requirements for optimal DirectLake:

✅ Delta tables with V-Order enabled (OPTIMIZE ... VORDER)
✅ Parquet file sizes 128MB–1GB
✅ Row group sizes ~1M rows
✅ Fabric capacity F64 or above for large models
✅ No unsupported DAX functions (check compatibility list)

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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. 11d ago First seen · 149 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6985cb69732e

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powerbi-performance-scale is a skill published in the GitHub repository santoshkanthety/powerbi-agent (2 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,396 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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