ghost-admin-mcp

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for the Ghost Admin API. Lets any MCP client — Claude, Cursor, obot, etc. — manage a Ghost blog: create and edit posts and pages, manage tags, and upload images.

Unlike Content-API wrappers, this uses the Admin API, so it can write, not just read.

Tools

Niceties handled for you:

• updated_at collision check — updates fetch the current value first, so you never see Saving failed! Someone else is editing this post.

• HTML source — write bodies as plain HTML; Ghost converts to its native format (?source=html).

• Tags by name — pass ["Recipes", "Dinner"]; unknown tags are created automatically.

Related MCP server: ghost-mcp-secure

Setup

1. In Ghost Admin: Settings → Integrations → Add custom integration — copy the Admin API Key (id:secret format) and your site URL.

2. Configure your MCP client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ghost": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "ghost-admin-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "GHOST_API_URL": "https://your-blog.com",
        "GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY": "abc123:def456..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Environment variables

Docker

docker build -t ghost-admin-mcp .
docker run -e GHOST_API_URL=... -e GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY=... ghost-admin-mcp

The container speaks MCP over stdio; use your platform's stdio wrapper (e.g. obot's containerized runtime) to expose it over HTTP.

Development

npm install
npm run build
GHOST_API_URL=... GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY=... node dist/index.js

License

MIT