Microsoft Fabric Skills

Microsoft Fabric Skills are reusable AI assistant instructions for working with Microsoft Fabric. They help GitHub Copilot CLI and compatible AI coding tools understand Fabric workloads, APIs, query patterns, and operational best practices.

Install with GitHub Copilot CLI

Add the public marketplace:

/plugin marketplace add microsoft/skills-for-fabric

Install the main Fabric bundle. Power BI report authoring is packaged separately:

/plugin install fabric-skills@fabric-collection

Or install the Power BI authoring bundle:

# Power BI authoring: semantic models, Power BI report skills, and PBIP workflows
/plugin install powerbi-authoring@fabric-collection

Copilot CLI installs plugins as complete bundles. To limit installed skills, choose a focused bundle instead of filtering the full bundle.

The persona bundles fabric-authoring, fabric-consumption and fabric-operations are retired. Every skill they carried ships in fabric-skills. The three ids still resolve as deprecated aliases of fabric-skills, so an existing install keeps working through /plugin update; new installs should use fabric-skills.

Update installed plugins

Update one installed bundle:

/plugin update fabric-skills@fabric-collection

Replace fabric-skills with the focused bundle name to update that bundle. From a terminal, update every installed plugin with:

copilot plugin update --all

Automatic update checking

Updates are handled by the agent host, not by a skill in this repository.

GitHub Copilot CLI -- opt in once by adding autoUpdate to the fabric-collection entry in your own user settings (~/.copilot/settings.json, or %USERPROFILE%\.copilot\settings.json on Windows):

{
  "extraKnownMarketplaces": {
    "fabric-collection": {
      "source": { "source": "github", "repo": "microsoft/skills-for-fabric" },
      "autoUpdate": true
    }
  }
}

Copilot CLI then refreshes the bundle at the start of every session in a trusted working directory. This opt-in is honored only from your personal user settings -- a repository or managed (MDM) setting cannot enable or redirect auto-update for a marketplace. Auto-update is also skipped by default in CI. See the Copilot CLI plugin reference.

Claude Code -- fabric-collection is a third-party marketplace, so enable auto-update once: run /plugin, open Marketplaces, select fabric-collection, and choose Enable auto-update. Administrators can instead set "autoUpdate": true on its extraKnownMarketplaces entry in managed settings.

Cursor, Windsurf, and other hosts -- re-run the host's plugin or marketplace update command, or git pull a manual clone.

Every release bumps the version field in each plugin manifest, which lets Copilot CLI and Claude Code detect a new release after auto-update is enabled.

What is included

Bundle	Use it for
fabric-skills	Complete Microsoft Fabric skill bundle, including authoring, consumption, operations, migration, and end-to-end architecture skills.
powerbi-authoring	Authoring Power BI semantic models, reports, and PBIP workflows, including Power BI report planning, design, authoring, and management.

The full bundle includes skills for SQL data warehouse, Spark and Lakehouse, Power BI semantic models, Eventhouse and KQL, Eventstreams, Dataflows Gen2, catalog search, migration scenarios, and medallion architecture workflows.

See CHANGELOG.md for public release notes.

Try an example prompt

• Analytics PDF report
• Document my workspace
• NYC Taxi medallion architecture
• Dashboard app

After installing a bundle, open Copilot CLI in a project folder and ask for the Fabric task you want to perform, for example:

Use Microsoft Fabric skills to design a medallion architecture for NYC taxi data.

Authentication

Most Fabric operations require Azure authentication. Start with:

az login
az account get-access-token --resource https://api.fabric.microsoft.com

SQL, Spark, Power BI, and KQL workflows may require workload-specific endpoints or token audiences. The installed skills provide the detailed commands and API patterns for each workload.

MCP servers

Skills provide guidance and patterns. MCP servers provide live tool access to data sources and APIs. Some bundles include MCP configuration where supported, and you can register additional Fabric MCP servers if your environment provides them.

See MCP setup.

Other AI coding tools

GitHub Copilot CLI plugin installation is the recommended path. This repository also includes root-level configuration files for compatible AI coding tools — CLAUDE.md for Claude Code, .cursorrules for Cursor, .windsurfrules for Windsurf, and AGENTS.md for Codex / Jules / OpenCode. They are picked up automatically when the repo is cloned.

Gemini CLI also auto-discovers GEMINI.md when the repo is cloned.

Issues and security

Report product issues in the GitHub issue tracker.

For security vulnerabilities, do not open a public issue. See SECURITY.md for the private reporting path.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.