Tailscale MCP Server

What the code does

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What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

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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.

claude mcp add tailscale-mcp -- npx -y @tmhs/tailscale-mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tailscale-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@tmhs/tailscale-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.tailscale-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@tmhs/tailscale-mcp"]

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tailscale-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@tmhs/tailscale-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "tailscale-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@tmhs/tailscale-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: TAILSCALE_MCP_ALLOW_FUNNEL (Set to 1 to let share_port expose a port to the open internet with Funnel (off by default)), TAILSCALE_MCP_READONLY (Set to 1 for monitoring only: no share tools, and no SSH config writes), TAILSCALE_MCP_BIN (Path to the tailscale binary if it is not on PATH or in the default install location), TAILSCALE_MCP_TIMEOUT_MS (Per-call timeout for tailscale commands in milliseconds (default 10000)).