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Power BI Authoring MCP Server (Local)

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Power BI Authoring MCP Server (Local) is a local MCP server: The Power BI Authoring MCP server lets an AI agent create and change Power BI semantic models. Install it from npm as @microsoft/powerbi-modeling-mcp.

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"
      ]
    }
  }
}

What you need

  • Runtime: Node.js 18+ (runs with npx).
  • MCP client: Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Claude Desktop, Cursor or any other client that speaks MCP over stdio.

Summary

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

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Questions

No. The registry entry lists no keys or environment variables.

Node.js 18+ (runs with npx), plus an MCP client such as Claude Code, Codex, Claude Desktop or Cursor.

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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