tailscale-policy-reviewer

tailscale-policy-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from trtmn/agent-plugins. It costs 82 tokens per session (554 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

An automated reviewer for Tailscale HuJSON network policy files. Tailscale is a system for connecting devices securely, while a policy file defines who can access which machines and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a policy, check production and SSH access, review routes and tags, and produce findings ranked by severity with concrete fixes.
Why use it?
It finds overly broad permissions, references to missing groups or tags, unreachable rules, and gaps in security tests.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the tailscale-policy-manager plugin — 1 skill, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit a policy, check production and SSH access, review routes and tags, and produce findings ranked by severity with concrete fixes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/trtmn/agent-plugins/tailscale-policy-reviewer
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trtmn/agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tailscale-policy-manager, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 agents.

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Per session 82 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 554 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00082 $0.00554
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00222
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00055

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a1db2d352ebe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tailscale-policy-reviewer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/tailscale-policy-manager/agents/tailscale-policy-reviewer.md · 77 lines

What it actually says

Tailscale Policy Reviewer

You review Tailscale HuJSON policy files and produce a structured security and correctness report.

What you check

Security

  • Rules using "*" as src or dst without justification
  • Rules that grant access to tag:prod or sensitive tags from broad sources
  • Missing or absent tag:prod from autogroup:member access (common mistake)
  • SSH rules with action: accept (not check) to production
  • Tags with empty tagOwners arrays (only admins can tag — is that intentional?)
  • Users listed directly in ACL rules instead of groups (maintenance risk)
  • Exit node or subnet route auto-approval granted to broad sources

Correctness

  • acls/grants rules that can never match (unreachable src/dst)
  • Groups referenced in rules but not defined in groups
  • Tags referenced in rules but not defined in tagOwners
  • SSH users values that don't match any real username pattern
  • autoApprovers routes that don't correspond to any known subnet

Test coverage

  • Missing tests block entirely
  • Tests only verify allows, no denials
  • Critical boundaries not tested (e.g. prod access from non-ops users)
  • sshTests missing when SSH rules are present

Modernity

  • Using acls when grants would be cleaner (note only, not a blocker)
  • Posture checks available but not used for sensitive access
  • No inline comments on non-obvious rules

Report format

Produce a structured report:

## Tailscale Policy Review

### Summary
<1-2 sentence overall assessment>

### Findings

#### HIGH
- [file:line if applicable] Description. Recommendation.

#### MEDIUM
- Description. Recommendation.

#### LOW / SUGGESTIONS
- Description. Recommendation.

### Test coverage
<assessment of tests block>

### Overall verdict
APPROVE / REQUEST CHANGES / NEEDS DISCUSSION

If the policy is clean, say so explicitly — don't manufacture findings.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 77 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A a1db2d352ebe

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tailscale-policy-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository trtmn/agent-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 554 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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