Microsoft Fabric Blog introduces the open-sourcing of the Fabric CLI, with author insights on new AI-ready features, developer empowerment, and community-driven roadmap. Discover how v1.1.0 enhances workflows and encourages collaborative innovation.

Fabric CLI: Open Source, AI-Ready, and More Powerful

Author: Microsoft Fabric Blog

Overview

The Fabric CLI has reached an exciting new phase: it is now fully open source. This milestone transforms the CLI from a Microsoft-delivered tool into a platform that thrives on community involvement, making it a flexible and powerful interface for anyone working with Microsoft Fabric. The CLI continues to support both interactive ad-hoc exploration and non-interactive use in automation scenarios like CI/CD pipelines.

Key Announcements

Open Source Release: The entire Fabric CLI codebase is now open source, allowing developers to extend, audit, and contribute to its direction.
AI-Ready: Version 1.1.0 lays the foundation for AI-assisted contributions—developers can use AI agents to quickly scaffold and refine new commands, tests, and documentation.
Improved Workflow Support: The CLI supports interactive operations for exploration and automation for tasks such as deployments, notebook execution, and more.

What’s New in Fabric CLI v1.1.0

JSON Output: Generate machine-readable output to integrate with scripts and automation pipelines.
Command & Argument Autocomplete: Enhanced productivity through discoverable commands and reduced errors.
Folder Support: Organize items efficiently with path-like workflows across large Fabric workspaces.
Context Persistence: Navigate into workspaces or folders and keep the context for following commands.
Workspace Private Links: Improve security with private connectivity.
AI-Assisted Contributions: Begin leveraging AI tools to scaffold and contribute features alongside humans.
Quality Fixes & Safety: Community feedback has guided improvements in reliability and safety. See the Full changelog.

Why Open Source, and Why Now?

The team open-sourced the Fabric CLI to encourage:

Community-Driven Features: Letting users guide development priorities.
Transparency and Trust: Developers can inspect, harden, and validate the tool.
Faster Innovation: Open extension points enable faster evolution.
AI Development Synergy: AI tooling speeds up prototyping and code quality improvements alongside human contributors.

Developer Scenarios

Interactive Mode: For ad-hoc exploration, workspace browsing, and development experimentation.
Non-Interactive Mode: For automation in CI/CD, scheduled jobs, notebook-triggered runs, and more.
Extension Framework (Planned): Work is underway on making it easier to build and share CLI add-ons.
Embedded Experiences: Early exploration into making the CLI usable inside editors and web interfaces.

How to Get Involved

Star & Fork the Repo: Stay updated and experiment locally from the repo.
Contribute: Issues and pull requests for new features, bugs, docs, or examples are welcome.
Promote & Share: Useful scripts and notebook cells can be proposed as new commands or extensions.
Join the Discussion: Help shape the roadmap and design by providing feedback and review.

Looking Ahead

The team is committed to ongoing open development, with community and AI-powered innovation at the core. Upcoming plans include an extensions framework, embedded CLI experiences, safer notebook/UDF execution, and richer deployment automation.

“Open sourcing the Fabric CLI is just the start. With community insight and AI-assisted contribution, this tool will keep evolving from a fast, intuitive way of working into a platform for custom automation—built together.”

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