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 a focused bundle:

# Authoring: APIs, automation, notebooks, schemas, ingestion, and deployment
/plugin install fabric-authoring@fabric-collection

# Consumption: interactive querying, discovery, exploration, and monitoring
/plugin install fabric-consumption@fabric-collection

# Operations: diagnostics and performance investigation
/plugin install fabric-operations@fabric-collection

# 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.

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

Installed Fabric bundles include a non-blocking check-updates skill. The first Fabric skill invoked in a session detects the marketplace plugin, direct plugin, or positively identified skills-for-fabric Git clone that supplied it. When a network check is due, it reads the version and changelog from the same repository main ref and shows update guidance verified for the current agent host without executing it.

Automatic network checks run at most once every seven UTC days per installed plugin or clone. An explicit check bypasses that cache. If the installation or remote version cannot be resolved safely, skill use continues without guessing.

For loose skills copied or materialized from a file or URL, the automatic check does not prompt. Run check-updates explicitly to confirm whether the files came from microsoft/skills-for-fabric. After confirmation, it can inspect the public marketplace and offer a complete matching plugin bundle; it does not overwrite individual copied files.

Plugin guidance is host-aware: GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code receive their own verified commands. Cursor and other hosts receive documented UI or repository guidance instead of a command from a different tool.

# Focused consumption bundle
/fabric-consumption:check-updates

# Full bundle
/fabric-skills:check-updates

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.
fabric-authoring	Creating and managing Fabric items through REST APIs, CLI automation, notebooks, T-SQL, KQL, Dataflows Gen2, Eventstreams, and semantic models.
fabric-consumption	Read-only exploration and query workflows across Warehouses, Lakehouses, Power BI semantic models, Eventhouse/KQL databases, Eventstreams, Dataflows Gen2, and catalog search.
fabric-operations	Performance and health diagnostics, including warehouse query insights and slow-query investigation.
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.