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.
npx skills add technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins --skill tailscale-cligit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-pluginsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/tailscale-cli)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/tailscale-cli"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/tailscale-cli/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/tailscale-cli"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/tailscale-cli.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00170 | $0.02055 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00068 | $0.00822 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00034 | $0.00411 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00205 |
Grade B, and why
tailscale-cli scanned grade B with 2 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.
Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation
A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.
`tailscale status` and `tailscale ping` are normally readable by any local user — no `sudo` needed. Mutating commands (`serve`, `funnel`, `up`/`down` in some configs) may need root, *or* may work passwordless if the loca Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
## `ping` and self-curl gotchas How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Tailscale CLI
Overview
The tailscale CLI behaves differently depending on install shape (macOS GUI app vs. Linux package) and config model (plain node-level serve vs. --service=svc:X Services). Most "tailscale is broken" moments are actually one of these known gotchas, not a real outage.
For binding/exposure architecture (loopback vs. tailnet-interface binding, identity headers, auth implications) rather than CLI mechanics, see the tailscale-serve-patterns skill instead.
Where the binary lives
| Environment | Binary | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| macOS, Tailscale.app (GUI) | /Applications/Tailscale.app/Contents/MacOS/Tailscale |
Not on $PATH — the App Store/direct-download GUI app does not symlink a tailscale command by default. which tailscale returning nothing does not mean Tailscale isn't running; check the menu-bar icon or /Applications/Tailscale.app/Contents/MacOS/Tailscale status directly. Alias it if you use it often: alias tailscale=/Applications/Tailscale.app/Contents/MacOS/Tailscale. |
macOS, Homebrew (brew install tailscale) |
tailscale on $PATH |
Different install path than the GUI app; if both are present they can diverge in version. |
| Linux (systemd package, VM/container) | tailscale on $PATH, daemon is tailscaled |
Standard install. Talks to tailscaled over a local socket. |
Diagnostic tell: if a ... | jq ... pipeline throws jq: parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column N, don't debug jq — the upstream command almost certainly failed (e.g. command not found: tailscale) and its error text got merged into stdout via 2>&1, and jq is choking on that text, not real JSON. Re-run the upstream command alone first.
Root/sudo: don't reach for it by default
tailscale status and tailscale ping are normally readable by any local user — no sudo needed. Mutating commands (serve, funnel, up/down in some configs) may need root, or may work passwordless if the local user is set as the tailscale operator (tailscale set --operator=<user>) or granted a scoped NOPASSWD sudo rule for tailscale serve *.
What ships with it
4 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.
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines 056a4170148e
- 1mo ago Changed · +10 lines · +76 tokens per session 27db1628b054
- 1mo ago First seen · 64 lines · 94 tokens per session scan B 7ebfe442d989
tailscale-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 170 tokens to every session and 2,055 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.
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