Power BI Authoring MCP Server (Local) MCP Server
The Power BI Authoring MCP server lets an AI agent create and change Power BI semantic models.
Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.
At a glance
Source code: Open repository
GitHub popularity: 1,180 stars on microsoft/powerbi-modeling-mcp, recorded 2026-09-27.
Status
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Published as @microsoft/powerbi-modeling-mcp on npm. Runs locally.
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"mcpServers": {
"power-bi-authoring-mcp-server-local": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@microsoft/powerbi-modeling-mcp"
]
}
}
}
Reviewed GitHub reports
69 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 2.
Most discussed
[Bug]:Remote MCP server OAuth flow broken — AADSTS9010010: resource parameter conflicts with scope on v2.0 endpoint
Version
Remote Power BI MCP Server — https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1/mcp/powerbi
Model used
Claude Sonnet 4.6 (via GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.2)
Description
The Remote Power BI MCP server's browser-based OAuth authentication flow stopped working around March 7–8, 2026. The authorization URL constructed by the server sends both a scope and a resource parameter on the OAuth v2.0 endpoint. This combination is invalid on v2.0 and now triggers AADSTS9010010 due…
Read the thread · 2026-03-09 · open · external user · 44 comments
Most recent
[Bug]: 0.5.0-beta.14 fails to start: Tool description metadata key 'tools.accept_eula.description' not found
Summary
The MCP server fails to start immediately after installation with version 0.5.0-beta.14.
The process exits during host startup with the following exception:
Hosting failed to start System.InvalidOperationException: Tool description metadata key 'tools.accept_eula.description' was not found in 'embedded resource PowerBIModelingMCP.Library.Resources.tools.tool-metadata.yaml'
Environment
OS: Windows 11 MCP Version: 0.5.0-beta.14 Installed via: npx / npm Client: Claude Desktop…
Read the thread · 2026-09-23 · closed · external user · 1 comment
See all 24 reviewed GitHub reports — of 69 qualified upstream.
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