tailscale-cli SKILL.md skillA
tailscale-cli from technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/tailscale-cli@git:20260918.e7950d7Pins git:20260918.e7950d7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins
- Path
plugins/tailscale/skills/tailscale-cli/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260918.e7950d7, committed Sep 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 5, 2026
- Size
- 8,777 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Use when running `tailscale` commands to debug connectivity, inspect status, or manage `tailscale serve`/`funnel`/Services — especially when `tailscale serve status` looks wrong, `tailscale` isn't found in a shell, `tailscale ping` fails against a host that's clearly up, you're working across a mix of macOS (GUI app) and Linux (VM/container) nodes in the same tailnet, or a node/sidecar joins fine but something downstream (a grant, an app-level check) crash-loops or silently fails — that's…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# 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`. | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/tailscale-cli@sha256:056a4170148e45d8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260918.e7950d7, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Sep 5, 2026 and Sep 18, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260918.e7950d7 latest | 2026-09-18 | e7950d7 | 8,777 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260912.9fba66a | 2026-09-12 | 9fba66a | 8,177 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260912.a3707f5 | 2026-09-12 | a3707f5 | 7,321 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.da91fe3 | 2026-09-05 | da91fe3 | 6,130 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8777 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tbb7gdxz2peowpwk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/tailscale-cli GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/056a4170148e45d84ddfcbe1c36b26230e1a12b05e88a9149e9f806bb55429fd
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