TailscaleRemy Guercio4 min readrelease notesintermediate
Aperture GA: Building a home(lab) for agentic AI
Summary
Aperture, Tailscale’s AI gateway, is now generally available. It ships with starter tokens, in‑app token purchases, new Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoints for adding Tailnet nodes and invoking Tailscale SSH, and an upgraded chat UI that supports Projects (shared context, tool access, node groups) and configurable default tool permissions. All agent actions respect Tailscale’s unidirectional A…
- Each new Aperture instance includes a bundle of usage tokens; additional tokens for any major LLM (open‑weight or closed) can be bought directly in the UI.
- Two new MCP endpoints (Tailnet, Tailnet SSH) let agents add devices to a Tailnet and run commands via Tailscale SSH, with user approval and audit logging.
- Chat UI now has Projects to group chats, share initial prompts, tool access, and Tailnet nodes, reducing per‑chat setup.
- Default tool permission profiles let you pre‑approve or block specific connector actions (e.g., list_machines, run_command) across all chats.
Aperture demonstrates a practical way to embed LLM agents into a zero‑trust network without scattering API keys, while giving homelab users fine‑grained control over what agents can do on their devices. The token model lowers entry cost, and the MCP extensions make it possible to automate device pr…
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