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tailscale

tailscale is a skill for Claude Code from magnus919/agent-skills. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,748 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of guides for running a self-hosted Tailscale network with Headscale, including the server, devices, access rules, routes, relays, and backups.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deploy Headscale, connect devices, manage nodes, configure network routes and relays, and handle backups.
Why use it?
It brings the main tasks for operating a private mesh VPN into one place instead of treating each part separately.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the tailscale plugin — 8 skills shipped together

not rated 75repo +9 today A scan SkillSpector: pass 92 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to deploy Headscale, connect devices, manage nodes, configure network routes and relays, and handle backups.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magnus919/agent-skills/tailscale
View source ↗ magnus919/agent-skills
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.

Any agent
npx skills add magnus919/agent-skills --skill tailscale
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tailscale, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/magnus919/agent-skills/tailscale"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/magnus919/agent-skills/tailscale.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,748 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00092 $0.01748
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00874
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00175

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4507ac059576, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 28 executable files (scripts/headscale-backup.sh, scripts/headscale-health-check.sh, scripts/headscale-restore.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

compatibility: Requires bash, Python 3.8+, jq, curl, and access to a Headscale server
tailscale/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tailscale + Headscale Skill Bundle

This umbrella skill covers the self-hosted Tailscale ecosystem using Headscale as the open-source control server. It provides 7 sub-skills that are auto-loaded by context.

Auto-Loading by Context

When the user's message matches a trigger keyword, the corresponding sub-skill's SKILL.md is loaded. Multiple sub-skills can load together when triggers overlap.

Trigger Keywords Sub-Skill(s) Loaded
"deploy headscale", "install headscale", "setup headscale server", "headscale config" headscale-deploy
"ACL", "policy file", "tailnet policy", "access control", "grant", "tag owners" tailnet-policy
"install tailscale", "connect to headscale", "tailscale client", "tailscale up", "tailscale status", "diagnose tailscale", "connectivity" tailscale-client
"auth key", "preauthkey", "register node", "approve node", "tag node", "node list", "decommission node" headscale-node-lifecycle
"subnet router", "exit node", "advertise route", "approve route" headscale-routing
"DERP", "relay", "peer relay", "STUN" headscale-derp
"backup headscale", "restore headscale", "migrate headscale", "headscale backup" headscale-backup
"Tailscale", "Headscale", "tailnet", "mesh VPN", "WireGuard mesh", "self-hosted VPN" Loads this umbrella SKILL.md for navigation

Sub-Skill Ordering & Dependencies

headscale-deploy ─────┬──> tailnet-policy ───> headscale-routing
                       │
                       ├──> headscale-node-lifecycle
                       │
                       ├──> tailscale-client
                       │
                       ├──> headscale-derp
                       │
                       └──> headscale-backup (prerequisite: a running headscale instance)
  • headscale-deploy must be completed first — the others require a running Headscale server
  • tailnet-policy (configures ACLs) is recommended before opening the tailnet to other users
  • headscale-derp is optional but recommended for reliability across NATs
  • headscale-backup should be run regularly on any production deployment

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago First seen · 115 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 4507ac059576

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tailscale is a skill published in the GitHub repository magnus919/agent-skills (75 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,748 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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