tailscale/tailcat

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like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane

Stars: 7.5k
Forks: 311
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 14
Avg merge: 7h 7m
Merged PRs (30d): 59

Dominant language: Go
License: BSD-3-Clause
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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14 open issues indexed

New Android error after latest commits Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

tailscale/tailcat#126 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Server: allow revoking a client key at runtime (RemoveAllowedClient) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

tailscale/tailcat#124 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Add UDP support to serve and forward Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

tailscale/tailcat#122 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Go library: let a program decide per client whether it may connect (Server.AllowClient) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

tailscale/tailcat#119 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Question/docs request: Is a `tailcat` address a secret? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

tailscale/tailcat#105 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Add mobile app? Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

tailscale/tailcat#94 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Add support for serving unix domain sockets Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

tailscale/tailcat#93 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
add QR code support Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

tailscale/tailcat#81 · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Feature request: interoperability with an existing Tailscale node Open

enhancement thinking

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

tailscale/tailcat#59 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Add verbose logging flag to log incoming connections Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

tailscale/tailcat#39 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 31, 2026
Rust library? Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

tailscale/tailcat#35 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 30, 2026
multi-region, bake in lat/long to fixed-region conn blobs, have clients search nearby regions? Open

enhancement thinking

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

tailscale/tailcat#7 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Add C bindings Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

tailscale/tailcat#5 · Opened Aug 22, 2026
Add web-based build, WebRTC support Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

tailscale/tailcat#4 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 20, 2026

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