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A comprehensive guide for using C# scripting within Tabular Editor to programmatically manipulate and automate Power BI semantic models. This skill supports bulk metadata operations, creating calculation groups, managing security roles, and advanced data model restructuring using the TOM API and LINQ.

This skill provides comprehensive guides and references for writing, debugging, and systematically optimizing DAX formulas within semantic models. It covers advanced topics including systematic performance optimization workflows, engine internals (like xmSQL), and best practices for both local (Power BI Desktop) and remote (Fabric/XMLA) model environments, ensuring efficient data calculation and query performance.

This guide details the use of Deneb, a certified custom visual, to embed Vega and Vega-Lite declarative visualization specifications directly into Power BI reports (PBIR). It outlines the complete workflow, from data binding and spec authoring to injection and validation using the pbir CLI. It emphasizes best practices, such as preferring Vega-Lite and handling complex field name escaping for robust report mutation.

This skill provides comprehensive, expert guidance for utilizing the Fabric Command Line Interface (CLI) using the `fab` tool. It enables programmatic interaction with the entire Fabric and Power BI service cloud environment, including workspaces, semantic models, data assets, and configurations. Use it to automate tasks like authentication, metadata retrieval, data querying (DAX, T-SQL, DuckDB), and resource management, ensuring best practices and error handling are maintained.

This skill guides the design, enforcement, auditing, and validation of Power BI report themes using the specialized pbir CLI. It helps standardize formatting—including colors, fonts, and structural properties—to ensure consistency, improve rebrandability, and maintain theme compliance across complex reports, minimizing reliance on local visual overrides.

This guide details the principles of observability, teaching developers how to instrument code by implementing structured logging, metrics, and distributed tracing. It ensures that production features emit sufficient telemetry to answer complex operational questions, transforming unknown failures into diagnosable events. Essential for any service running in production.

PBIP is the developer-mode file format for Power BI, transforming the opaque PBIX binary into a human-readable, folder-based structure. This structure is crucial for enabling robust source control (Git diffing), external editing using specialized tools like VS Code, and seamless multi-author collaboration. It standardizes how reports and semantic models are structured for professional BI development pipelines.

A comprehensive guide for generating dynamic, inline SVG graphics (such as sparklines, gauges, and charts) within Power BI reports using DAX measures. This technique allows developers to embed complex visualizations directly into standard visuals (Table, Card, Matrix) by having the DAX function return an SVG markup string. Best practices emphasize prioritizing existing User Defined Function (UDF) libraries (e.g., IBCS, DaxLib.SVG) over writing custom DAX code.

This guide provides comprehensive instructions for searching Tabular Editor (TE) documentation and understanding complex configuration files. It details the usage of the `pbi-search` CLI tool, allowing users to query multiple sources (DAX, Power BI, SQLBI) simultaneously. It also covers the structure and best practices for model-specific files like `.tmuo` and application preferences, ensuring efficient data modeling and development.

Provides a comprehensive CLI reference for Tabular Editor 2 (TE2). It enables automated model management, including deployment to XMLA endpoints, running embedded scripts, performing Best Practice Analysis (BPA), and handling model exports (TMDL). This skill is essential for integrating data model lifecycle management into CI/CD pipelines and automating repetitive tasks from the command line.

Provides expert guidance for authoring and editing Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL) files directly within PBIP projects. This skill is designed for advanced users needing to perform quick, text-level modifications—such as updating descriptions, fixing format strings, or defining measures—when full, dedicated tools (like Tabular Editor CLI) are unavailable. It details critical syntax rules, object nesting, and file structures for managing complex semantic models.

This advanced tool surfaces critical, often unrecorded, evidence of human-AI collaboration during development sessions. It analyzes git diffs and conversational context across multiple layers to classify the signal level (HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW), measure technical complexity, detect decision forks, and quantify the specific contribution of the AI model, providing structured data for post-session retrospectives and accountability.