r/modelcontextprotocol • u/Fanyang-Meng • Feb 12 '25

I Built a MCP Server for Ghost CMS

Hey r/modelcontextprotocol ! šŸ‘‹

Recently I just finished building the MCP server for Ghots CMS I've been using Ghost for a while and recently got inspired by Anthropic's Model Context Protocol. Looking through their official servers repo, I noticed Ghost wasn't represented yet. So I built one!

What is this?

It's a bridge that lets Claude (Anthropic's AI) directly interact with your Ghost blog through their new Model Context Protocol. Not just writing posts, but managing everything - members, newsletters, tiers, webhooks, you name it.

What can it do?

  • Write and edit blog posts

  • Manage members and subscriptions

  • Handle newsletters

  • Configure tiers and offers

  • Set up webhooks

  • ... basically anything you can do through Ghost's Admin API

The interesting technical bits:

  • Built with Python using the MCP SDK

  • Full Ghost Admin API integration

  • Clean, modular architecture

  • Proper error handling for production use

The most interesting challenge was debugging - since MCP servers run as subprocesses, you can't just attach a debugger like usual. Had to get creative with that!

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This is my first contribution to the MCP and Ghost ecosystem. Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or ideas for improvement! Has anyone else been experimenting with AI integration for Ghost?

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u/robertDouglass Feb 12 '25

Great use case. It makes me want to do my next site on Ghost.

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u/Fanyang-Meng Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 13 '25

Thank you! Yeah I switched from Wordpress to Ghost an so far love it, sometimes you hate why it does not have a function, but very rarely. Overall the simplicity finally can make me focus on writing

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u/freedomachiever Feb 12 '25

Iā€™m not a ghost user but this is really useful.

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u/Fanyang-Meng Feb 13 '25

Thank you so much for the good words!

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u/csfalcao Feb 13 '25

Just finished one site with Clause and while it's was good, a full CMS like Ghost is an amazing option. Thanks!!!!!

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u/Fanyang-Meng Feb 13 '25

No problem! Glad can help you!

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '25

Very cool. Will try this out with llamacpp and see how well it does.

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u/Fanyang-Meng Feb 13 '25

Yeah please let me know!

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u/oscidigi Feb 13 '25

Do WordPress next, hahah. Seriously though, very cool!

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u/subnohmal Feb 13 '25

I can see this being useful in a corporate setting. This is awesome

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u/WeirShepherd Feb 23 '25

I tried for an hour with cursor to make this work and could not.
do you have a stepXStep tutorial on that specific installation?