Powerbi Fabric

Skill: Fabric / Power BI Service Operations

Trigger

Activate when the user mentions Microsoft Fabric, Power BI Service, workspaces, cloud datasets, or dataset refresh. Requires Azure authentication.

Authentication

# Interactive device-code / browser login (run this first)
pbi-agent fabric login

Commands

# List workspaces the authenticated user can access
pbi-agent fabric workspaces

# List semantic models (datasets) in a workspace (defaults to "My Workspace" if omitted)
pbi-agent fabric datasets
pbi-agent fabric datasets --workspace "Finance Analytics"
pbi-agent fabric datasets -w "00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444"

# Trigger a dataset refresh (returns immediately by default)
pbi-agent fabric refresh "Sales Model"

# Wait for the refresh to complete before returning
pbi-agent fabric refresh "Sales Model" --workspace "Finance Analytics" --wait

Guidance

• --workspace accepts either a workspace name or a GUID.
• --wait polls until the refresh terminates (Completed / Failed / Cancelled). Use for CI pipelines; skip for interactive triggering.
• Refreshes require the dataset's scheduled refresh credentials to be configured in the service — this CLI does not set credentials.
• For dataset names with spaces or special chars, always quote them.

Common Failures

• "Not authenticated" → run pbi-agent fabric login first
• "Workspace not found" → run pbi-agent fabric workspaces to verify the exact name/ID
• Refresh returns 400 / credentials missing → configure dataset credentials in the Power BI Service UI; powerbi-agent only triggers refreshes
• Token expired → re-run pbi-agent fabric login