tailscale

tailscale is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from usetemi/skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,296 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for working with Tailscale, a networking platform that securely connects devices, services, and private networks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for tailnets, access rules, private DNS, remote access, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, network routing, and troubleshooting.
Why use it?
It helps you choose commands and access settings while accounting for the current Tailscale version and the security needs of your setup.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,296 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00086 $0.01296
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00648
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00130

Measured 4d ago against content hash e2cc49645ee4, 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 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 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.

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.

skills/tailscale/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tailscale Platform

Use this skill for any Tailscale work, from local development connectivity to production tailnet architecture and incident diagnostics.

Tailscale changes quickly. Ground version-sensitive advice in the local CLI and current official docs before making claims about flags, policy syntax, product limits, or Kubernetes CRDs.

First Steps

  1. Infer posture from context.

    • For personal tailnets, MVPs, local dev, demos, and scrappy startup work, give the fastest viable path first.
    • For organizations, production, shared tailnets, sensitive systems, or compliance contexts, use secure-first defaults.
    • If the context is unclear and the posture changes commands, exposure, key handling, or access policy, ask before changing state.
  2. Inspect local project and system context before prescribing commands.

    rg --files -g 'tailnet*.json' -g '*tailscale*' -g 'acl.hujson' -g 'policy.hujson' -g 'docker-compose*.yml' -g 'Dockerfile*' -g '.github/workflows/**' -g 'k8s/**' -g 'helm/**'
    command -v tailscale
    tailscale version
    tailscale --help
    tailscale <subcommand> --help
    
  3. Prefer read-only checks first unless the user explicitly asks to mutate local Tailscale state, tailnet policy, Kubernetes resources, or remote resources.

    tailscale status
    tailscale status --json
    tailscale netcheck
    tailscale ping <peer>
    tailscale dns status
    tailscale serve status
    tailscale funnel status
    
  4. Use official Tailscale docs as the source of truth. Third-party posts can help discover issues, but do not encode them as facts unless confirmed by official docs or the current CLI.

Reference Routing

  • Read references/policy-security.md for grants vs ACLs, policy HuJSON, tags, groups, tests, sshTests, Tailscale SSH, device posture, app capabilities, Funnel nodeAttrs, and Tailnet Lock cautions.
  • Read references/routing-connectors.md for subnet routers, exit nodes, app connectors, MagicDNS, split DNS, route injection, HA/failover, regional routing, DERP/direct diagnostics, tailscale netcheck, tailscale ping, and tailscale status.
  • Read references/expose-services.md for Tailscale Serve, Funnel, Tailscale Services, TailVIPs, HTTPS certs, identity headers, app capabilities headers, service config files, drain/advertise flows, TCP/TLS forwarding, and public exposure gotchas.
  • Read references/automation-containers.md for auth keys, OAuth clients, workload identity federation, ephemeral nodes, GitHub Actions, Docker, userspace networking, serverless patterns, tsnet, API usage, and GitOps policy workflows.
  • Read references/kubernetes.md for the Tailscale Kubernetes Operator, tags/OAuth prerequisites, ingress, egress, API server proxy, Connector, ProxyGroup, ProxyClass, Recorder, subnet routers, app connectors, version compatibility, and CNI notes.
  • Read references/production-diagnostics.md for production review checklists, least privilege, key expiry, device approval, logs, network flow logs, audit logs, webhooks/log streaming, update policy, incident diagnostics, and safe read-only commands.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 4d ago First seen · 121 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A e2cc49645ee4

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tailscale is a skill published in the GitHub repository usetemi/skills (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,296 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 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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