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An AI teammate for Tailscale.

Connect Tailscale and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 10 Tailscale actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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Things to ask about Tailscale
  • What broke in Tailscale overnight, and is it new?
  • Open a Tailscale issue for this bug with the steps from the Slack thread.
  • Summarise this week's Tailscale activity for the standup.
  • Tell me when something in Tailscale needs my attention.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Tailscale

10 Tailscale actions, picked for what you ask.

About Tailscale: Tailscale is a secure networking platform for managing tailnets, devices, users, DNS, access policies, services, and other network administration resources.

Reads

7 in all · always allowed
  • Get Device
    Get the full current record for one manageable Tailscale device by ID.
  • List Users
    Return users in the selected tailnet, optionally filtered by membership type or role.
  • List Device Routes
    Return the subnet routes advertised and currently enabled for a Tailscale device.
  • Get Tailnet Settings
    Return current tailnet-wide approval, update, key-duration, HTTPS, routing, logging, and posture…
  • List Tailnet Devices
    Return all devices in the selected tailnet, including identifiers, names, addresses, tags,…
  • Get DNS Configuration
    Return the selected tailnet's combined MagicDNS, nameserver, search-path, and split-DNS…
  • List Configuration Audit Logs
    Return configuration audit events for an explicit RFC3339 time window in the selected tailnet,…

Changes

3 in all · off when Tailscale is read-only
  • Set Device Tags
    Replace all ACL tags assigned to one Tailscale device.
  • Set Device Routes
    Replace the enabled subnet routes for one device with an explicit list of routes.
  • Set Device Authorization
    Approve or revoke approval for one device when device approval is enabled on the tailnet.

Showing 10 of 10. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect Tailscale

    Open Connections, find Tailscale and paste an API key from your Tailscale account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Tailscale with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Tailscale job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Tailscale, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

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Questions

Tailscale and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Tailscale?

Yes. Tailscale is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect Tailscale?

Open Connections, find Tailscale and paste an API key from your Tailscale account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in Tailscale?

10 actions: 7 that read from Tailscale and 3 that change things in it, for example get device, list users, list device routes. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Tailscale?

Yes. In Connections, set Tailscale to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about Tailscale from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Tailscale jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Tailscale data safe?

Your Tailscale login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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