Creating Power BI Reports

Create and scaffold Power BI reports using pbir CLI. Install with uv tool install pbir-cli or pip install pbir-cli. Load the pbir-cli and pbi-report-design skills alongside this one.

Vague or Underspecified Prompts

When the user's request lacks specific measures, audience context, structural preferences, or formatting direction (e.g., "make me a dashboard", "create something with KPIs"), consult references/vague-prompts.md before proceeding. Close the gap between intent and specification with targeted questions; then apply sensible defaults (sqlbi theme, executive dashboard pattern, model-driven KPI selection) for anything the user can't or won't specify.

Rules

• Visuals must not overlap one another
• Favor theme changes over visual overrides for static formatting
• Favor extension measures with theme colors (like "bad") for conditional formatting
• Always create reports inside a named project folder (e.g., sales-dashboard/Sales.Report)
• Run pbir validate after every mutation
• New reports already include the sqlbi theme -- do NOT run pbir theme apply-template unless the user explicitly asks for a different theme
• New reports already include a default Page 1 with a textbox visual for the page title at position (20,20) with height 90 -- do NOT add a new textbox; rename the existing page with pbir pages rename instead. Place all visuals at y:120 or below to avoid overlapping the title textbox.

Quick Reference