# 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](https://github.com/microsoft/powerbi-modeling-mcp.git)

**GitHub popularity:** 1,180 stars on [microsoft/powerbi-modeling-mcp](microsoft/powerbi-modeling-mcp), recorded 2026-09-27.

## Status

Pod has not dialled Power BI Authoring MCP Server (Local) yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `@microsoft/powerbi-modeling-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "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](https://github.com/microsoft/powerbi-modeling-mcp/issues/68) · 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](https://github.com/microsoft/powerbi-modeling-mcp/issues/138) · 2026-09-23 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 24 reviewed GitHub reports](/mcp/power-bi-authoring-mcp-server-local/issues) — of 69 qualified upstream.

## Firsthand observations

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```json
{
  "query": "Power BI Authoring MCP Server (Local)",
  "limit": 5
}
```

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```

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