Tailscale RMCP MCP Server

Name: Tailscale RMCP MCP Server
Author: ai.dinglebear

ai.dinglebear/rtailscale

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What is the Tailscale RMCP MCP server?

Tailscale device, route, DNS, key, user, and ACL management over MCP and CLI.

How to install Tailscale RMCP

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

TAILSCALE_API_KEY
required
secret
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.
Authorization
required
secret
Bearer token for the tailscale-rmcp MCP endpoint.

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rtailscale": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@dinglebear/rtailscale",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TAILSCALE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_TAILSCALE_API_KEY>",
        "TAILSCALE_RMCP_VERSION": "<YOUR_TAILSCALE_RMCP_VERSION>",
        "TAILSCALE_RMCP_REPO": "<YOUR_TAILSCALE_RMCP_REPO>",
        "TAILSCALE_RMCP_RELEASE_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_TAILSCALE_RMCP_RELEASE_BASE_URL>",
        "RUST_LOG": "<YOUR_RUST_LOG>",
        "Authorization": "<YOUR_AUTHORIZATION>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rtailscale": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@dinglebear/rtailscale",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TAILSCALE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_TAILSCALE_API_KEY>",
        "TAILSCALE_RMCP_VERSION": "<YOUR_TAILSCALE_RMCP_VERSION>",
        "TAILSCALE_RMCP_REPO": "<YOUR_TAILSCALE_RMCP_REPO>",
        "TAILSCALE_RMCP_RELEASE_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_TAILSCALE_RMCP_RELEASE_BASE_URL>",
        "RUST_LOG": "<YOUR_RUST_LOG>",
        "Authorization": "<YOUR_AUTHORIZATION>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rtailscale": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@dinglebear/rtailscale",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TAILSCALE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_TAILSCALE_API_KEY>",
        "TAILSCALE_RMCP_VERSION": "<YOUR_TAILSCALE_RMCP_VERSION>",
        "TAILSCALE_RMCP_REPO": "<YOUR_TAILSCALE_RMCP_REPO>",
        "TAILSCALE_RMCP_RELEASE_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_TAILSCALE_RMCP_RELEASE_BASE_URL>",
        "RUST_LOG": "<YOUR_RUST_LOG>",
        "Authorization": "<YOUR_AUTHORIZATION>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "rtailscale": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@dinglebear/rtailscale",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TAILSCALE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_TAILSCALE_API_KEY>",
        "TAILSCALE_RMCP_VERSION": "<YOUR_TAILSCALE_RMCP_VERSION>",
        "TAILSCALE_RMCP_REPO": "<YOUR_TAILSCALE_RMCP_REPO>",
        "TAILSCALE_RMCP_RELEASE_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_TAILSCALE_RMCP_RELEASE_BASE_URL>",
        "RUST_LOG": "<YOUR_RUST_LOG>",
        "Authorization": "<YOUR_AUTHORIZATION>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add rtailscale --env TAILSCALE_API_KEY=<YOUR_TAILSCALE_API_KEY> --env TAILSCALE_RMCP_VERSION=<YOUR_TAILSCALE_RMCP_VERSION> --env TAILSCALE_RMCP_REPO=<YOUR_TAILSCALE_RMCP_REPO> --env TAILSCALE_RMCP_RELEASE_BASE_URL=<YOUR_TAILSCALE_RMCP_RELEASE_BASE_URL> --env RUST_LOG=<YOUR_RUST_LOG> --env Authorization=<YOUR_AUTHORIZATION> -- npx -y @dinglebear/rtailscale mcp