Requires Node 18+ on your system so npx can fetch the package on first run. Claude Desktop only speaks stdio locally; HTTP servers are wrapped via npx mcp-remote automatically. Paste the config below, then follow the reload step to register @microsoft/powerbi-modeling-mcp-win32-x64.
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json{
"mcpServers": {
"powerbi-modeling-mcp": {
"command": "[Path To MCP Server folder]\\powerbi-modeling-mcp.exe",
"args": [
"--start",
"--skipconfirmation",
"--authmode=interactive"
],
"env": {
"PBI_MODELING_MCP_ACCESS_TOKEN": "[ACCESS_TOKEN]"
}
}
}
}