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Connect Claude Code to Power BI Desktop
Hello, I tried to connect Claude Code to Power BI Desktop and have identified some unused columns, measures and would like to remove such. But Claude didn't have the ability to remove such in Power ...
Power BI Desktop doesn’t have an add‑in model like Excel or Word, so there’s no way to install Claude into the UI. Claude can talk to Desktop through Microsoft’s Modeling MCP Server, though, and that gives it access to the semantic model — reading it, generating measures, tweaking existing ones. Whether it can actually delete columns or measures depends on whether the MCP endpoint is writable. A lot of setups are still read‑only, so you end up doing the cleanup manually in Model view.
You can save your report as PBIP format and use Claude Code to work on the file system generated.
The real advantage of PBIP format is source control and report as file system. That makes it very AI friendly.