powerbi

🧩 Power BI Agentic Plugins

Plugins that turn GitHub Copilot into a specialist for Power BI and Microsoft Fabric development. Built for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code, also compatible with VS Code.

📦 Plugins

Plugin	What it does
powerbi	Create semantic models, author reports in PBIR, write DAX queries, explore published datasets, and apply modeling best practices.
fabric	Navigate workspaces, import/export item definitions, call Fabric & Power BI REST APIs, run jobs, and manage OneLake files.

Every plugin follows the same structure:

plugin-name/
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json   # Manifest
├── .mcp.json                    # Tool connections
├── agents/                      # Agent personas with role-specific instructions
└── skills/                      # Domain knowledge Copilot draws on automatically

• Skills encode domain expertise, best practices, command references, and step-by-step workflows. Copilot draws on them automatically when relevant.
• Agents define personas with specific responsibilities (e.g., a Power BI architect vs. developer) and declare which skills and tools to use.
• Connectors wire Copilot to external tools — the Fabric CLI and Power BI Modeling MCP — via MCP servers.

These plugins are starting points. They become much more useful when you customize them for how your team actually works:

• Add company context — Add your naming conventions, workspace structure, and modeling patterns into skill files so Copilot understands your world.
• Adjust workflows — Modify skill instructions to match how your team does things (e.g., your deployment pipeline, your BPA rules).
• Swap connectors — Edit .mcp.json to point at your specific MCP servers.

🚀 Getting Started

Select your AI assistant and install the plugin or skills directly within it.

GitHub Copilot CLI Setup

• Install GitHub Copilot CLI

• Open Copilot and run the following commands:

  # Open GitHub Copilot CLI
  copilot
  
  # Add the marketplace (one-time setup)
  /plugin marketplace add RuiRomano/powerbi-agentic-plugins
  
  # Install plugins
  /plugin install powerbi@powerbi-agentic-plugins
  /plugin install fabric@powerbi-agentic-plugins
  
  # Restart Copilot to activate
  

Once installed, plugins activate automatically. Skills fire when relevant — for example, asking Copilot to create a semantic model automatically pulls in the powerbi-semantic-model skill.

Visual Studio Code Setup

• Install Visual Studio Code
• Install GitHub Copilot Chat extension
• Enable Agent Skills and Use Skill Adherence Prompt in user settings (Ctrl+,)
• Follow discover and install plugins to install this plugin in VS Code.
• Optionally, you can also clone/download this repo and manually setup in your workspace

  • Copy the skills you want from the downloaded plugin repo (e.g. plugins\powerbi\skills) to .github/skills

    Your folder structure should look like this:

    Folder/
    ├── .github/
    │   └── skills/
    │       └── powerbi-semantic-model/
    │           └── SKILL.md
    ├── ...
    

    See GitHub Agent Skills documentation for more information where you can configure skills with VS Code.

📊 Scenarios

New Direct Lake semantic model on top of Lakehouse tables

# 1. Create a Lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric
# 2. Load it with some sample data, e.g. Retail sample data
# 3. Prompt:
    Create a new direct lake semantic model in workspace [workspace] that uses the tables from lakehouse [lakehouse]

Semantic Model on top of CSV data