Power BI Authoring MCP Server (Local)

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add powerbi-modeling-mcp -- npx -y @microsoft/powerbi-modeling-mcp

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "powerbi-modeling-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@microsoft/powerbi-modeling-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Summary

The Power BI Authoring MCP server lets an AI agent create and change Power BI semantic models.

Questions

Power BI Authoring MCP Server (Local) is a local MCP server distributed as the npm package @microsoft/powerbi-modeling-mcp.

Run: claude mcp add powerbi-modeling-mcp -- npx -y @microsoft/powerbi-modeling-mcp

Run: codex mcp add powerbi-modeling-mcp -- npx -y @microsoft/powerbi-modeling-mcp

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