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. Related videos Prior: Microsoft's Open-Source Fabric AI Skills, in Your Tools —    • Microsoft Shipped Open-Source AI Skills fo...   See also: The Power BI Modeling MCP Server — Hands-On —    • The Power BI Modeling MCP Server — Hands-On   See also: Power BI as Code: The Setup AI Needs for Your Reports —    • Power BI as Code: The Setup AI Needs for Y...   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 Covered Skills for Fabric, the powerbi-authoring plugin, report planning and design, semantic-model-authoring (TMDL), report authoring (PBIR), self-validation and bug-fixing, the Power BI Modeling MCP server, publishing to the Power BI service, the cache.abf and refresh gap, data gateways Tools Claude Code (the AI harness running the skills), driving Claude Opus 4.8 Microsoft Skills for Fabric — the powerbi-authoring plugin: powerbi-report-planning, -design, -authoring, -management, and semantic-model-authoring The Power BI Modeling MCP server (bundled with Skills for Fabric) for model validation and refresh Power BI Desktop (current Store build) and the Power BI / Fabric service Prerequisites You build Power BI reports currently An LLM in a harness installed, with the skills-for-fabric repo added and the powerbi-authoring plugin enabled A Fabric workspace you can publish to Chapters 0:00 — An AI built this whole report 0:10 — What Skills for Fabric is 0:40 — The five Power BI skills it uses 1:53 — Giving it one vague ask 2:44 — The design contract in YAML 4:39 — Building the semantic model 5:27 — Authoring the report pages 5:59 — It checks and fixes its own work 7:30 — Catching its own year-over-year bug 9:00 — Publishing, and why it lands empty 11:03 — The verdict: a fast junior analyst Resources Code: https://github.com/microsoft/skills-f... (the powerbi-authoring plugin) The five skills used: powerbi-report-planning, powerbi-report-design, powerbi-report-authoring, powerbi-report-management, semantic-model-authoring