# pbiplint

> pbiplint lints Power BI projects (PBIP), the semantic model in TMDL and the report in PBIR, for best-practice problems. It runs on your own machine, in the browser at https://pbiplint.com or as a command line from npm, and the site and the command line send nothing anywhere.

For a coding assistant that can run commands: run `npx pbiplint skill` and follow it. It prints a skill, at the version installed, that says when to run pbiplint, how to keep its output short, how to read the results, and what to leave to the user. `npx pbiplint explain <RULE_ID>` prints a rule's guidance the same way, so the rule pages need not be fetched.

## Docs

- [The pbiplint CLI](https://pbiplint.com/cli/): how to get it, run it, and check that it sends nothing
- [What a script can rely on](https://pbiplint.com/cli/#contract): stdout, exit codes, and the JSON fields
- [Rules](https://pbiplint.com/rules/): every rule, what it checks, and how to fix it
- [The pbiplint Privacy Promise](https://pbiplint.com/privacy/): what the site, the CLI, and the pipeline steps read and send

## Optional

- [Pipelines](https://pbiplint.com/pipelines/): pbiplint in GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines
- [About](https://pbiplint.com/about/): what pbiplint is and who makes it