activator-cli
Creates and inspects Fabric Activator (Reflex) alerts: rules, their data sources, conditions,…
Manages Fabric IQ Ontology items, including entity and relationship types, data bindings, and definition updates, plus schema, lineage, grounding, and graph-walk exploration. Use for ontology modelling and traversal. For natural-language questions over a Power BI report use
$ npx -y skills add microsoft/skills-for-fabric --skill fabriciq-ontology-cli --agent claude-codeHow it fires
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Manages Fabric IQ Ontology items, including entity and relationship types, data bindings, and definition updates, plus schema, lineage, grounding, and graph-walk exploration. Use for ontology modelling and traversal. For natural-language questions over a Power BI report use
name: fabriciq-ontology-cli description: "Manages Fabric IQ Ontology items, including entity and relationship types, data bindings, and definition updates, plus schema, lineage, grounding, and graph-walk exploration. Use for ontology modelling and traversal. For natural-language questions over a Power BI report use fabriciq."
> **Telemetry — MANDATORY.** Every `api.fabric.microsoft.com` call must carry > `x-ms-fabric-skill: fabriciq-ontology-cli` (`az rest`: `--headers "x-ms-fabric-skill=fabriciq-ontology-cli"`), > including every LRO poll, `fabric_lro` and retry. Snippets omit it — add it anyway.
> **CRITICAL NOTES** > 1. To find the workspace details (including its ID) from workspace name: list all workspaces and, then, use JMESPath filtering > 2. To find the item details (including its ID) from workspace ID, item type, and item name: list all items of that type in that workspace and, then, use JMESPath filtering > 3. **Skill disambiguation**: use `fabriciq-ontology-cli` for the Ontology item itself. Natural-language questions over Power BI reports and dashboards are `fabriciq`; DAX against a semantic model is `semantic-model-cli`.
This one skill owns Fabric IQ Ontology items: entity and relationship types, bindings, definitions, lineage, grounding and graph walks.
It is a **mode dispatcher** and contains NO procedures. Pick the mode that matches the request from the table below, then **read the matching `references/<mode>.md` file end to end with your file-reading tool BEFORE issuing a single command**. That file holds the endpoints, payload shapes, templates and gotchas; acting without it produces wrong payloads and wrong results.
| Mode | Use when the request ... | Example triggers | Read this first | |---|---|---|---| | `authoring` | creates or updates an Ontology item, entity/relationship types, or data bindings, and previews/confirms a definition change | create ontology item, bind entity type, add relationship type, update ontology definition | [references/authoring.md](references/authoring.md) | | `consumption` | explores an existing ontology: schema, entity types, bindings, lineage, grounding extraction, graph walks, summaries | entity types, ground query, ontology lineage, walk the graph, summarize the ontology | [references/consumption.md](references/consumption.md) |
`consumption` is read-only exploration. Any definition write goes through the authoring mode's preview-and-confirm flow -- never call `updateDefinition` from a consumption request.
If a request genuinely spans modes, handle them one at a time and read each reference before you start that part. If the mode is ambiguous after reading this table, ask one short clarifying question instead of guessing.
Reading the reference and planning the change is NOT completing the task. Each mutating mode ends with one state-changing call. If you did not issue it, nothing was persisted -- say so explicitly rather than reporting success.
| Mode | Terminal write | |---|---| | `authoring` | `createItem` (`POST /v1/workspaces/{ws}/items`) to create the Ontology, then `POST .../updateDefinition` to persist entity types, relationships and bindings. A previewed definition tree is not a saved one. | | `consumption` | none -- this mode is read-only |
Before you report the task done, confirm the terminal call returned success and, where the reference documents a readback, read the artefact back to prove the change landed.
Resolve the workspace and item first; every mode depends on it.
| Task | Reference | Notes | |---|---|---| | Finding Workspaces and Items in Fabric | [COMMON-CLI.md](../../common/COMMON-CLI.md#finding-workspaces-and-items-in-fabric) | **Mandatory** -- read before resolving any workspace or item id | | Fabric Topology & Key Concepts | [COMMON-CORE.md](../../common/COMMON-CORE.md#fabric-topology--key-concepts) | Item types, workspaces, capacities | | Environment URLs | [COMMON-CORE.md](../../common/COMMON-CORE.md#environment-urls) | Sovereign / non-public cloud hosts | | Authentication & Token Acquisition | [COMMON-CORE.md](../../common/COMMON-CORE.md#authentication--token-acquisition) | Wrong audience = 401; read before any auth issue | | Authentication Recipes | [COMMON-CLI.md](../../common/COMMON-CLI.md#authentication-recipes) | `az login` flows and token acquisition | | Core Control-Plane REST APIs | [COMMON-CORE.md](../../common/COMMON-CORE.md#core-control-plane-rest-apis) | Pagination, LRO polling, rate limiting | | Gotchas & Troubleshooting | [COMMON-CLI.md](../../common/COMMON-CLI.md#gotchas--troubleshooting-cli-specific) | `az rest` audience, shell escaping, token expiry |
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