The New Power BI Authoring Skills Change Everything
Microsoft just released Skills for Fabric: a whole marketplace of AI skills and agents that handle the Power BI report development process for you. Planning, design, the semantic model, the visuals, validation, and publishing to a Fabric workspace. In this video I put it to the test. Playing a finance manager with nothing but an Excel file, I let AI build the entire report end to end using Claude Code and the Power BI authoring plugin: import the data, build the semantic model, plan the report for the audience, design and build the pages, apply a corporate brand theme, and publish to Fabric. How long does it take, where does it shine, and where does it still fail? Let's find out. 0:00 Microsoft just changed AI Power BI development 0:25 What's inside Skills for Fabric (June 2026 update) 0:56 The workflow: planner, designer, authoring skills 2:07 The test: an Excel file to a finished report 2:49 Setting up Claude Code and the marketplace 4:28 Enabling the Power BI and Fabric plugins 5:06 Inside a skill: the report design skill 6:39 Customizing skills to your own brand 7:03 Connecting the project folder and choosing a model 7:59 Doing the same setup in VS Code 9:05 Creating the PBIP file and connecting to Power BI 10:32 Building the semantic model from Excel 12:18 Checking the model it built 13:51 Planning the report with the planner skill 17:34 Designing and building the pages 19:16 Validation with the desktop bridge 21:46 How close is it to the spec? 23:49 Matching a real corporate brand theme 26:34 Where the AI still struggles: KPI cards 28:40 Publishing to a Fabric workspace 29:30 Final verdict: is it good enough? 31:16 Is your data safe, and what's next 👉 Want to master Power BI report design (in the age of AI)? Join my live 4-Week Power BI Design Transformation Program: https://datatraining.io/powerbidesign... -------------------------------- 📊 TRAININGS 📊 --------------------------------- ➡️ Power BI Design 4-Week Transformation Program in the AI Age https://datatraining.io/powerbidesign... ➡️ NEW! User-Defined Functions (UDF) Training https://datatraining.io/powerbi-udf-t... ➡️ Power BI Data Analyst + PL-300 Study Resources https://datatraining.io/powerbi-pl300 ➡️Power BI Business Users https://datatraining.io/powerbi-busin... -------------------------------- 📊 CONSULTING 📊 --------------------------------- ➡️Need a Power BI expert to build or improve your report? https://datatraining.io/powerbi-consu... ➡️Need a Fabric expert to build your data infrastructure? https://datatraining.io/fabric-consul... ➡️ Custom or urgent training & consulting [email protected] --------------------------------- 😍 JOIN 😍 ---------------------------------- Newsletter https://datatraining.io/newsletter Join YT https://bit.ly/4b453bi Subscribe https://bit.ly/31MnQGO Insta / howtopowerbi LinkedIn / basdohmen TikTok / how.to.power.bi X / howtopowerbi fb / howtopowerbi Threads https://www.threads.net/@howtopowerbi Thanks for being a part of this channel and all your support! 💪 🙏 #HowToPowerBI #PowerBI #DataTraining #BasDohmen #powerbidesktop #powerbitraining #powerbideveloper #DAX #fabric #fabricai #PowerBI #PowerBIAI #Copilot #DataVisualization #design #designtransformation
