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powerbi-pbi-cli from santoshkanthety/powerbi-agent is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add santoshkanthety/powerbi-agent/powerbi-pbi-cli@git:20261005.504c1f5Pins git:20261005.504c1f5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
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- santoshkanthety/powerbi-agent
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- git:20261005.504c1f5, committed Oct 5, 2026
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- MIT
The pbi CLI (pbi-cli) for driving Power BI Desktop and PBIR reports from the terminal — visual bind with Column vs Measure resolution from the semantic model, implicit aggregation wrappers, --kind and --aggregation overrides, batching with --no-sync, and what pbi report reload actually does (closes and reopens Desktop, not a keyboard shortcut). Use when the user mentions: pbi CLI, pbi-cli, pbi visual bind, pbi visual bulk-bind, pbi report reload, pbi measure create, pbi connect, sync_desktop…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# The `pbi` CLI `pbi-cli` (Mina Saad, MIT) drives Power BI Desktop and PBIR report folders from the terminal: semantic model edits over the local Analysis Services instance, and report-layer edits written straight into PBIR JSON. It overlaps `pbi-agent` deliberately — use whichever is installed, and know the differences below, because the failure modes are not the same. **Target version: ≥ 3.12.0.** Earlier versions wrap every bound field as a `Measure`, which silently produces broken slicers and tables. Check with `pbi --version` — and note that `--version` itself only became trustworthy in 3.12.0, where it reads from package metadata instead of a hardcoded constant that had drifted. ## Two entry points, and it matters | Entry point | Owns | |---|---| | `pbi` | all model and report work — `connect`, `model`, `measure`, `report`, `visual`, `filters`, `bookmarks`, `format`, `database` | | `pbi-cli` | **only** skill management: `pbi-cli skills install` / `list` / `uninstall` | `pbi skills install` does not exist. Claude Code integration is opt-in by design: `pbi connect` does not write to `~/.claude/`. ```bash pipx install pbi-cli …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add santoshkanthety/powerbi-agent/powerbi-pbi-cli@sha256:00cea9ecaa8e3a09The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.504c1f5, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
santoshkanthety/powerbi-agent · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-05 · branch main
API
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Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.