Tailscale

Drive a Tailscale node and its tailnet through the CLI and the control-plane API

What does this entry provide?

Tailscale is an MCP server entry in ChatHome Skills, sourced from Official MCP Registry and scored 78/100. As a Model Context Protocol server, it exposes tools that MCP-compatible LLM clients such as Claude, Cursor, and Copilot can call directly, extending an agent's reach beyond its built-in capabilities. ChatHome Skills discovered this entry through its daily ingest of official registries and GitHub discovery queries, and re-verifies repository facts, freshness signals, and install metadata on every run. The quality score weighs official-registry presence, a working install command, license clarity, GitHub star trajectory, and repository freshness — the full formula is on the Sources page. The install command above is ready to copy. Review the last-pushed date and repository status before adding Tailscale to a production agent workflow; the snapshot facts below are point-in-time values from the most recent ingest.

Snapshot facts

Source: Official MCP Registry
Quality: 78/100
Install method: npm
Repo: tailscale-mcp/tailscale-mcp
Repo updated: Oct 26, 2026

Install command

npx -y @tailscale-mcp/tailscale-mcp@2.0.5

Install method: npm

Review the upstream source before running this command.

GitHub project

Quality

Repo stars

Repo updated

Oct 26, 2026

How is this score calculated?

Weighted across six dimensions, scored 0-100.
Provenance (25): listed in an official or curated registry.
Installability (25): a runnable install command beats a declared transport, which beats a source checkout.
Maintenance (20): recency of the last push; archived entries score zero here.
Adoption (20): repository stars on a log curve.
Documentation (10) and description quality (10): parsed manifest or SKILL.md frontmatter, and a real description rather than a placeholder.

MCP manifest

{
  "_meta": {
    "io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official": {
      "status": "active",
      "isLatest": true,
      "updatedAt": "2026-10-26T09:15:56.405652Z",
      "publishedAt": "2026-10-26T09:15:56.405652Z",
      "statusChangedAt": "2026-10-26T09:15:56.405652Z"
    }
  },
  "server": {
    "name": "io.github.tailscale-mcp/tailscale-mcp",
    "title": "Tailscale",
    "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
    "version": "2.0.5",
    "packages": [
      {
        "version": "2.0.5",
        "transport": {
          "type": "stdio"
        },
        "identifier": "@tailscale-mcp/tailscale-mcp",
        "registryType": "npm",
        "environmentVariables": [
          {
            "name": "TAILSCALE_API_KEY",
            "isSecret": true,
            "description": "A control-plane API access token. One of this, the OAuth client pair, or the OAuth JWT file is needed for the tailnet tools; without any of them only the local tools are offered."
          },
          {
            "name": "TAILSCALE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID",
            "description": "An OAuth client id, used with TAILSCALE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET when there is no API access token."
          },
          {
            "name": "TAILSCALE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET",
            "isSecret": true,
            "description": "The OAuth client secret that goes with TAILSCALE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID."
          },
          {
            "name": "TAILSCALE_TAILNET",
            "description": "The tailnet the control-plane tools act on. Without it they act on the one the credential belongs to."
          },
          {
            "name": "TAILSCALE_MCP_PRESET",
            "choices": [
              "minimal",
              "core",
              "full"
            ],
            "default": "core",
            "description": "Which tools are offered: minimal, core or full."
          },
          {
            "name": "TAILSCALE_MCP_ALLOW_WRITE",
            "choices": [
              "true",
              "false"
            ],
            "default": "false",
            "description": "Offer the tools that change something. Read-only without it."
          },
          {
            "name": "TAILSCALE_MCP_ALLOW_DESTRUCTIVE",
            "choices": [
              "true",
              "false"
            ],
            "default": "false",
            "description": "Offer the tools that remove or sever something. Implies the write tier."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "transport": {
          "type": "stdio"
        },
        "identifier": "ghcr.io/tailscale-mcp/tailscale-mcp:2.0.5",
        "registryType": "oci",
        "environmentVariables": [
          {
            "name": "TAILSCALE_API_KEY",
            "isSecret": true,
            "description": "A control-plane API access token. One of this, the OAuth client pair, or the OAuth JWT file is needed for the tailnet tools; without any of them only the local tools are offered."
          },
          {
            "name": "TAILSCALE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID",
            "description": "An OAuth client id, used with TAILSCALE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET when there is no API access token."
          },
          {
            "name": "TAILSCALE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET",
            "isSecret": true,
            "description": "The OAuth client secret that goes with TAILSCALE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID."
          },
          {
            "name": "TAILSCALE_TAILNET",
            "description": "The tailnet the control-plane tools act on. Without it they act on the one the credential belongs to."
          },
          {
            "name": "TAILSCALE_MCP_PRESET",
            "choices": [
              "minimal",
              "core",
              "full"
            ],
            "default": "core",
            "description": "Which tools are offered: minimal, core or full."
          },
          {
            "name": "TAILSCALE_MCP_ALLOW_WRITE",
            "choices": [
              "true",
              "false"
            ],
            "default": "false",
            "description": "Offer the tools that change something. Read-only without it."
          },
          {
            "name": "TAILSCALE_MCP_ALLOW_DESTRUCTIVE",
            "choices": [
              "true",
              "false"
            ],
            "default": "false",
            "description": "Offer the tools that remove or sever something. Implies the write tier."
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "repository": {
      "url": "https://github.com/tailscale-mcp/tailscale-mcp",
      "source": "github"
    },
    "websiteUrl": "https://github.com/tailscale-mcp/tailscale-mcp",
    "description": "Drive a Tailscale node and its tailnet through the CLI and the control-plane API"
  }
}

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