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How to Connect Ghost to Gemini — via MCP

Drive Ghost (open-source publishing platform) from any AI agent: posts, pages, tags, members, newsletters. 12 tools, Admin API JWT auth.

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Ghost

Ghost

Drive Ghost (open-source publishing platform) from any AI agent: posts, pages, tags, members, newsletters. 12 tools, Admin API JWT auth.

tools

12

Region

INTL

Category

Publishing

Authentication

API Key

Required env vars

GHOST_ADMIN_API_URLGHOST_ADMIN_JWT
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Summary

Drive Ghost (open-source publishing platform) from any AI agent: posts, pages, tags, members, newsletters. 12 tools, Admin API JWT auth.

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Example prompts for Ghost

Click any prompt to copy it. Paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot or OpenClaw to run it against this connector.

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Ghost + Gemini

Drive Ghost (open-source publishing platform) from any AI agent: posts, pages, tags, members, newsletters. 12 tools, Admin API JWT auth.

Prerequisites

See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:

GHOST_ADMIN_API_URL, GHOST_ADMIN_JWT

Step 1 — Get credentials

Setup:

  1. Sign in to Ghost Admin → Settings → Advanced → Integrations → Add custom integration.
  2. Copy the Admin API Key — format is <id>:<secret> (e.g. 5f3a...c4:b9d8...e2).
  3. Set:
    • GHOST_ADMIN_API_URL = your Ghost site's admin API base, e.g. https://yoursite.com/ghost/api/admin
    • GHOST_ADMIN_API_KEY = the full id:secret key from step 2

…(continued in the in-app connector instructions)

Step 2 — Install the adapter

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

Step 3 — Add the connector in Gemini

Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide shows YOUR_SERVER_ID.

Gemini CLI reads MCP servers from ~/.gemini/settings.json (or %APPDATA%\gemini\settings.json on Windows). Add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anythingmcp": {
      "httpUrl": "https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID",
      "headers": { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_MCP_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}
  1. Get your MCP API key from AnythingMCP → MCP Servers → your server → API keys.
  2. Save the file and restart gemini.
  3. Run /mcp inside the Gemini CLI — Ghost should be listed as available.
  4. Vertex AI Studio: pass https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID to the tools array of your request with the same X-API-Key header.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
ghost_list_postsList posts
ghost_get_postFetch a post by ID (or by slug with /slug/{slug}/)
ghost_create_postCreate a post
ghost_update_postUpdate a post
ghost_delete_postDelete a post permanently
ghost_list_pagesList static pages (separate from posts)
ghost_list_tagsList tags with member/post counts
ghost_list_membersList members (subscribers, both free and paid)
ghost_create_memberCreate a member (subscribe email)
ghost_update_memberUpdate a member
ghost_list_newslettersList newsletters on the site (Ghost supports multiple newsletters per site since v5)
ghost_siteReturn site info (title, description, version, url)

FAQ

Does Gemini 1.5 Pro or 2.x support MCP? Yes — Gemini CLI ≥ 0.4 and Vertex AI tools API both accept MCP httpUrl connectors with custom headers.

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