Tabular Editor CLI (te)

Note

📢 Read the announcement blog post to learn what the CLI is, why we built it, and how to get started.

Public home for bug reports, feature requests, and discussions about the Tabular Editor CLI (te) — a cross-platform command-line tool for Power BI and Analysis Services semantic models.

Important

The Tabular Editor CLI is in Limited Public Preview. It is offered for evaluation with a Tabular Editor account; no license is required during preview. Commands, flags, and outputs may change before general availability. The preview build stops functioning after 2026-09-30. We recommend against using the CLI in production CI/CD pipelines during preview.

📥 Download:https://tabulareditor.com/download-tabular-editor-cli (requires account creation)

📦 What this repository is

• Issues — report bugs, request features, and track known problems.
• Discussions — ask questions, share feedback, and swap usage tips with other early adopters.

This repository does not host the Tabular Editor CLI source code or binaries. It exists to provide a public place for feedback and issue tracking during preview.

🤖 AI agent skill

This repo also ships an AI agent skill that teaches Claude, GitHub Copilot, and other AI coding agents how to use te productively. It is packaged as a Claude Code plugin and also installs as a plain skill folder for other agents.

Add it with the claude CLI (installs the whole skill, references/ included):

claude plugin marketplace add TabularEditor/CLI
claude plugin install te-cli-agentic-use@te-cli

Add it to the copilot CLI (GitHub Copilot CLI). Copilot has no install command; it auto-discovers skills from a folder, so drop the skill into one it reads:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TabularEditor/CLI /tmp/te-cli
mkdir -p ~/.copilot/skills && cp -r /tmp/te-cli/skills/te-cli ~/.copilot/skills/te-cli

For workspace scope, copy into .github/skills/te-cli/ instead. Copilot also reads ~/.claude/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so the same folder placed in one of those works for both tools.

See skills/te-cli/ for the skill, its references/, and per-agent (Claude Code, Copilot, Codex, generic) install instructions.

🐛 Before you open an issue

Please take a minute to do these two things — it saves everyone time and helps your report get triaged faster.

1. Make sure you're on the latest version. Run te --version and compare it with the latest preview release on tabulareditor.com. Many reports turn out to be bugs that have already been fixed. Update and try to reproduce before reporting.
2. Search existing issues and discussions for anything similar to what you're seeing. If you find a match, please add a comment (with your repro, version, and environment) to the existing thread rather than opening a duplicate. This keeps conversation in one place and bumps priority based on reaction counts.

If you can't find a match, open a new issue and include:

• te --version
• OS and architecture (e.g., Windows 11 x64, macOS 14 ARM64, Ubuntu 22.04 x64)
• The exact command you ran and the output (redact any secrets first)
• What you expected to happen vs. what actually happened

🔒 Security

If you believe you have discovered a security vulnerability, please do not open a public issue or discussion.

See our Security Policy for responsible disclosure instructions and contact details.

You can also visit our Trust Center: https://trust.tabulareditor.com/

📚 Documentation

Full documentation lives at https://docs.tabulareditor.com/features/te-cli/te-cli.html.

Quick links:

• Installation and Setup
• Authentication and Connections
• Command Reference
• CI/CD Integration
• Migrating from the TE2 CLI