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Explorations should be fun so we're bringing back the nostalgia of the personal web page.\n\n- Notepad.exe → LLM\n- FTP → MCP\n- GeoCities → TailCities\n\nAt the heart of the experiment is the question:\n\n\u003e What's it like building an application where identity is built into the network?\n\n1. Can we skip building login pages? - YES!\n1. How is authorization (_what I am allowed to do_) affected when authentication (my identity) is implicit?\n1. What are the trade offs when access is over tailscale only? - TBD\n1. 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Build the project:\n   ```bash\n   make build\n   ```\n\n## Usage\n\nRun TailCities with default settings:\n\n```bash\n./tailcities\n```\n\n### Command Line Options\n\n- `-hostname`: Hostname on tailnet (default: \"tailcities\")\n- `-dir`: Directory to store Tailscale state (default: \"data\")\n- `-db`: Path to database file (default: \"data/tailcities.db\")\n- `log`: Set log level (debug, info, warn, error) - only debug currently supported\n\n### Example\n\n```bash\n./tailcities -hostname tailcities -dir ./state -db ./state/pages.db\n```\n\n## Access\n\nOnce running, TailCities will be available at:\n\n```\nhttp://tailcities/ (or your configured hostname)\n```\n\nOnly users authenticated to your Tailscale network can access the service.\n\n## MCP (Model Context Protocol) Integration\n\n### Testing with MCPInspector\n\n- use the `http://tailcities` as the endpoint\n- (to be written)\n\n### Testing with Claude Desktop\n\n1. Run tailcities\n1. Set MCP config in Claude Desktop: “Settings → Developer → Edit Config”:\n\n   ```json\n   {\n     \"mcpServers\": {\n       \"vibecities\": {\n         \"command\": \"npx\",\n         \"args\": [\"mcp-remote\", \"http://tailcities\", \"--allow-http\"]\n       }\n     }\n   }\n   ```\n\n   - `mcp-remote` is required as Claude desktop does not support remote transports\n   - `--allow-http` is required _only_ when vibecities is running somewhere other than localhost.\n\n1. Start (or restart) Claude Desktop\n1. 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