Working with Power BI reports using pbir

CLI for exploring, building, managing, formatting Power BI reports. All commands use pbir.

IMPORTANT: ALWAYS use pbir CLI commands to read and modify reports if pbir is available. ONLY Read, Write, or Update JSON files directly as a fallback if pbir fails three times in a row, and you MUST invoke the pbir-format skill from the pbip plugin when working with these files.

IMPORTANT: FIRST Read and adhere to the mental model in MENTAL-MODEL.md.

Learning from Mistakes

You MUST log learnings about the pbir CLI, including avoiding mistakes or gotchas, unexpected results, user expectations and design preferences in the project's memory file, such as:

• Claude Code: .claude/rules/pbir-cli.md
• Cursor: .cursor/rules/pbir-cli.mdc
• GitHub Copilot: .github/instructions/pbir-cli.instructions.md

You must be concise only log learnings that lead to improved, general performance and NOT very specific examples. This is NOT a change log, and you must treat this learning file as a valuable finite neuronal resource, pruning it, avoiding redundancy and making connections or references to examples.

How to use pbir