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Ghost

Draft, schedule and publish to Ghost with a preview-then-approve gate on every write.

Score 59(?)Community (BlogFactoryHQ)MIT0Verified Top MCPs for Website Builders and CMS →
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Quick answer

What it does

Reads posts, pages, tags and authors; creates drafts from Markdown or native Ghost blocks (`create_drafts`, `create_page_drafts`, capped at 10 per call); previews and applies change sets; publishes, unpublishes, schedules and unschedules in version-checked batches; uploads local images; triggers a configured deploy hook; and verifies the live URL afterwards with `check_live_posts`.

Best for

  • Drafting and scheduling a content series
  • Preview-then-approve publishing
  • Content audits (alt text, metadata, links, cards)
  • Verifying a published post actually renders

Not for

  • Teams requiring a vendor-maintained server
  • Uploading images from remote URLs

Source: top-mcps.com/mcp/ghost — verified Sep 2026

Setup recipe

Pick your client, then follow the three steps.

  1. 1

    Install

    claude_desktop_config.json
    {
  "mcpServers": {
    "ghost": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ghost-publisher-mcp@latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GHOST_URL": "${GHOST_URL}",
        "GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY": "${GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY}",
        "GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS": "${GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS}"
      }
    }
  }
}

    Paste under mcpServers. Fully quit and reopen Claude after editing.

    CLI or .mcp.json
    # export GHOST_URL=https://yourblog.com
# export GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY=your_integration_id:your_integration_secret
# export GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS=/path/to/images
claude mcp add ghost -- npx -y ghost-publisher-mcp@latest

    Run from your repo. Commit .mcp.json to share with your team.

    .cursor/mcp.json
    {
  "mcpServers": {
    "ghost": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ghost-publisher-mcp@latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GHOST_URL": "${GHOST_URL}",
        "GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY": "${GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY}",
        "GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS": "${GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS}"
      }
    }
  }
}

    Global path: ~/.cursor/mcp.json. Reload window after editing.

    .vscode/mcp.json
    {
  "servers": {
    "ghost": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ghost-publisher-mcp@latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GHOST_URL": "${GHOST_URL}",
        "GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY": "${GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY}",
        "GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS": "${GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS}"
      }
    }
  }
}

    VS Code uses the "servers" key (not "mcpServers").

    ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json
    {
  "mcpServers": {
    "ghost": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ghost-publisher-mcp@latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GHOST_URL": "${GHOST_URL}",
        "GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY": "${GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY}",
        "GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS": "${GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS}"
      }
    }
  }
}

    Open via Cascade → hammer icon → Configure.

    cline_mcp_settings.json
    {
  "mcpServers": {
    "ghost": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ghost-publisher-mcp@latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GHOST_URL": "${GHOST_URL}",
        "GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY": "${GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY}",
        "GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS": "${GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS}"
      }
    }
  }
}

    Open via the Cline sidebar → MCP Servers → Edit.

    ~/.continue/config.json
    {
  "experimental": {
    "modelContextProtocolServers": [
      {
        "transport": {
          "type": "stdio",
          "command": "npx",
          "args": [
            "-y",
            "ghost-publisher-mcp@latest"
          ],
          "env": {
            "GHOST_URL": "${GHOST_URL}",
            "GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY": "${GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY}",
            "GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS": "${GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS}"
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

    Continue uses modelContextProtocolServers with a transport block.

    ~/.codex/config.toml
    # ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.ghost]
command = "npx"
args = [
  "-y",
  "ghost-publisher-mcp@latest",
]
env = { GHOST_URL = "${GHOST_URL}", GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY = "${GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY}", GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS = "${GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS}" }

    Codex uses TOML. Each server is a [mcp_servers.<name>] subtable.

    ~/.config/zed/settings.json
    {
  "context_servers": {
    "ghost": {
      "command": {
        "path": "npx",
        "args": [
          "-y",
          "ghost-publisher-mcp@latest"
        ]
      },
      "env": {
        "GHOST_URL": "${GHOST_URL}",
        "GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY": "${GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY}",
        "GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS": "${GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS}"
      }
    }
  }
}

    Zed calls them "context_servers". Settings live-reload on save.

    ChatGPT → Apps directory

    Ghost doesn't ship a hosted HTTPS endpoint today. ChatGPT supports remote MCP servers only — to use this server in ChatGPT you'll need to deploy it to a public HTTPS URL first (e.g. via Cloudflare Workers or Vercel) or wait for an official remote build.

  2. 2

    Set required secrets

    Set GHOST_URL, GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY, GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS in your shell environment before launching your MCP client.

  3. 3

    Try a minimum working prompt

    Minimum working prompt pending verification. Try any prompt from the MCP’s README once installed.

Tools & permissions

Showing 14 of 24 tools the server reported. The rest are real, just not listed here.

ToolDescriptionArgsSide effects
check_connectionVerify Ghost authentication and report configured features without exposing secrets.—Network
list_postsList post records with IDs and updated_at values.—Read
get_postRead one post by ID or slug, including HTML, Lexical content and SEO metadata.—Read
audit_contentInspect up to 25 posts or pages for missing alt text, metadata, link and card problems.—Read
check_site_healthCheck published targets, canonicals and share prerequisites.—Network
preview_changesReturn before-snapshots, field impact and a site-bound preview hash. Writes nothing.—Read
apply_change_setApply a previewed batch. Requires the exact preview hash and approval scopes.—Write
create_draftsCreate 1-10 posts as drafts from Markdown or native Ghost blocks.—Write
upload_imageUpload a local image from inside GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS. Rejects remote URLs, SVG and symlink escapes.—Write
plan_scheduleConvert a draft list and local start time into UTC timestamps with an HMAC-bound plan. Never writes.—Read
schedule_postsSchedule drafts for future publication. Requires the plan hash and user_confirmed=true.—Write
publish_postsPublish a version-checked batch after user_confirmed=true. Runs the deploy hook once.—Write
trigger_deployPOST once to the configured deploy hook. The URL cannot be supplied by the caller.—Network
check_live_postsFetch the public URLs and verify status, title and rendered SEO metadata.—Network

Security & scope

Access scope
Read + write
Sandbox
No sandbox, but the preview-hash and user_confirmed gates mean no write happens without an explicit, change-set-specific approval.
Gotchas
  • A Ghost Admin API key is site-wide. The server's own gates are what constrain the agent, not the credential.
  • The deploy-hook URL is configured server-side and cannot be passed by the caller — deliberate, and it means an agent cannot redirect the hook.
  • Image uploads only work from paths inside `GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS`. An agent trying to attach an image it fetched from the web will fail, by design.

Agent prompt pack

— copy into Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT.
Paste into Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT. Edit the [brackets] before sending.
Recommend the best MCP servers for [task: e.g. website builders work] in [client: Claude].

Constraints:
- Prefer tools that are [official | open-source | read-only] — pick what matters for my use case.
- Exclude MCPs that require [e.g. a paid plan, OAuth-only flows, remote-only transport].
- Return at most 3 picks, ranked.

For each pick include:
1. One-sentence rationale.
2. The ready-to-paste install snippet for my client.
3. Any required secrets I need to create before installing.

Cross-check the top-mcps.com listing: https://top-mcps.com/top-mcps-for-website-builders
Compare Ghost against a real alternative. Swap the second MCP in [brackets] if you want a different match.
Compare Ghost MCP vs [WordPress MCP] for the following job: [describe the job, e.g. "let an agent create GitHub issues on bug triage"].

Judge them on:
- Setup time and complexity (what a new user hits first).
- Auth model (none / API key / OAuth 2.1) and credential risk.
- Transport (stdio / Streamable HTTP / SSE) and where the server runs.
- Required secrets and the blast radius if they leak.
- Operational risk in an unattended agent loop.
- Which one is "good enough" for a weekend prototype vs. production.

End with one sentence: which should I pick for my scenario, which is: [my scenario].

References:
- https://top-mcps.com/mcp/ghost
- top-mcps.com listing for WordPress
Asks the agent to install and verify. Works inside Claude Code, Cursor Agent, Codex CLI.
Install the Ghost MCP server for my [client: Claude] at the default config path for that client.

Use the exact install snippet published at https://top-mcps.com/mcp/ghost (fetch https://top-mcps.com/mcp/ghost.json for the canonical server.json if you can read URLs).

Before finishing:
1. Create the required secrets (GHOST_URL, GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY, GHOST_UPLOAD_ROOTS) and put them in the appropriate env block — do not hard-code them.
2. Restart or reload the client so it picks up the new server.
3. Verify the server is connected (green / running state) and at least one tool is listed.
4. If anything fails, read the client's MCP logs and report the exact error — do not silently retry.

Confirm when done and list the tools the server now exposes.

Frequently asked questions

What changed

— 1 update tracked.

  1. Refreshed install snippets and fact sheet; verified for 2026.

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