Building in the Agentic Era with Power BI and Fabric
Microsoft Build 2026 marks a major shift in how developers build data experiences with AI agents. Today we're announcing two capabilities that bring agentic analytics to the forefront: Agent Skills for Power BI , which let developers prompt an AI agent to build and refine semantic models and reports, and Fabric Apps for Semantic Models , which enable AI agents to build and deploy Fabric-native web apps on semantic models. Both capabilities will accelerate the time it takes to go from raw data to a polished analytics solution with just natural language prompts. Agent Skills for Power BI (Preview) In November 2025, we released our Power BI Modeling MCP , which allowed AI agents to interact with Power BI’s semantic layer, enabling massive productivity gains in semantic model authoring. Agent Skills for Power BI brings a true end-to-end agentic development workflow not just for Power BI semantic models but for Power BI reports too using Power BI Projects (PBIP). Instead of manually b...