tailscale

tailscale is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dinglebear-ai/rtailscale. It costs 175 tokens per session (1,897 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A skill for connecting an AI assistant to the Tailscale REST API. Tailscale is a service for linking devices and private networks securely.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to perform Tailscale API actions through an MCP tool, the Tailscale command-line interface, or direct REST requests when necessary.
Why use it?
It provides a defined order for using the available Tailscale connection methods, starting with MCP and falling back to the command line or REST API.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the tailscale plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dinglebear-ai/rtailscale/tailscale
Any agent
npx skills add dinglebear-ai/rtailscale --skill tailscale
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/rtailscale

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install tailscale, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for tailscale

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dinglebear-ai/rtailscale/tailscale.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dinglebear-ai/rtailscale/tailscale)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dinglebear-ai/rtailscale/tailscale"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dinglebear-ai/rtailscale/tailscale.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 175 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,897 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00175 $0.01897
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.00949
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00190

Measured 4d ago against content hash 218eff1c6485, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tailscale scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl "https://api.tailscale.com/api/v2/tailnet/$TAILSCALE_TAILNET/devices" \
plugins/tailscale/skills/tailscale/SKILL.md · 196 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 4d ago First seen · 196 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A 218eff1c6485

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tailscale is a skill published in the GitHub repository dinglebear-ai/rtailscale (5 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 175 tokens to every session and 1,897 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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