How To Use Microsoft's Fabric Skills To Build a Power BI Report

Microsoft's official Skills for Fabric can author an entire Power BI report from one plain-English ask, the semantic model, the DAX measures, the page layout, and the publish to Fabric, and you run it yourself by pointing Claude Code at the open-source repo. This is the honest, unedited test: I hand the powerbi-authoring skills a vague "executive sales report" ask and let them run, stopping only where it teaches you something, including where the AI catches its own measure bug and the asterisk that a published report that can't refresh still isn't done.

What you'll learn

  • Point Claude Code at the open-source skills-for-fabric repo and run the powerbi-authoring plugin yourself

  • Drive a full report build from a single vague ask, with the planning skill interviewing you on scope and delivery before it writes anything

  • Read the Design Brief the AI commits to in plain YAML and approve it before a single visual exists

  • Let semantic-model-authoring write your TMDL tables, relationships, and measures into a PBIP, then review them like a fast junior analyst's work

  • Watch the report-authoring skill lay out the pages in PBIR, screenshot its own work, catch a year-over-year measure bug, and fix it on its own

  • Understand why a report published through the management skill lands empty, and what refresh and gateway work is still on you

Resources

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