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Tailscale RMCP MCP Server

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Tailscale RMCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 11 Aug 2026.

Rust MCP server and CLI for Tailscale devices, users, keys, policies, and auth.

Installs per day peak 219 · avg 27 · -30% w/w
a month agotoday
Installs / week
npm · tailscale-rmcp
5
Stars
0 open issues
11 Aug 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
AGPL-3.0
License
Rust

What changed 41

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 9 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

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Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Tailscale RMCP every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add tailscale-rmcp -- npx -y tailscale-rmcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tailscale-rmcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tailscale-rmcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.tailscale-rmcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "tailscale-rmcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tailscale-rmcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tailscale-rmcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tailscale-rmcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tailscale-rmcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: TAILSCALE_API_KEY (Tailscale API key.), TAILSCALE_RMCP_VERSION (Optional GitHub release tag override for the downloaded Tailscale RMCP binary.), TAILSCALE_RMCP_REPO (Optional GitHub owner/repo override for release asset downloads.), TAILSCALE_RMCP_RELEASE_BASE_URL (Optional release download base URL override.), RUST_LOG (Tracing filter for Tailscale RMCP logs.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Tailscale RMCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Tailscale RMCP?
Tailscale RMCP runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package tailscale-rmcp.
How do I connect Tailscale RMCP?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls tailscale-rmcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
Is Tailscale RMCP open source?
Yes — it is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence, written in Rust and 5 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.