--- title: "Ghost: vendor profile | Agent Ready Checklist" description: "Ghost, a content management system: 2 of 6 checklist rows read are met by default, with 7 sourced facts, dated plans and what it does not do." canonical: https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/ghost site: "Agent Ready Checklist" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Vendors" --- # Ghost: vendor profile | Agent Ready Checklist > Ghost, a content management system: 2 of 6 checklist rows read are met by default, with 7 sourced facts, dated plans and what it does not do. Source: https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/ghost Site: Agent Ready Checklist Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 Agent endpoints: https://agentreadychecklist.com/llms.txt (index), https://agentreadychecklist.com/openapi.json (API), https://agentreadychecklist.com/mcp (MCP server), https://agentreadychecklist.com/ask (search) Access: https://agentreadychecklist.com/auth.md (no key). Pricing: https://agentreadychecklist.com/pricing.md (free). # Ghost Ghost builds an XML sitemap automatically, which meets AR-FIND-03, and puts structured data on every post and page, which meets AR-READ-08. Of the 6 rows read, rendering mode, llms.txt, markdown negotiation and MCP stand at no statement. Ghost(Pro) is sold in four plans, with Starter at USD 15 a month on yearly billing and 18 billed monthly. ## At a glance Type [CMS](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/by-type/cms/) Homepage [ghost.org](https://ghost.org), answered HTTP 200 on 2026-11-05 Checklist rows 6 of 31 read: **2** supported, 0 partial, 4 no statement In the crawl 2 of 5,897 home pages counted on 2026-11-04. Counted from the crawl's headers and generator tags, an undercount for hosted builders. Last read 2026-11-05 ## What it does for this layer - Ghost 6.75.0 shipped on GitHub on 2026-11-04. primary source, 2026-11-04: [api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/latest](https://api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/latest), read 2026-11-05 - Ghost help docs state "Ghost automatically creates and updates an XML sitemap for your website". primary source: [ghost.org/help/seo/](https://ghost.org/help/seo/), read 2026-11-05 - Ghost help docs state "Ghost automatically includes structured data in all posts and pages". primary source: [ghost.org/help/seo/](https://ghost.org/help/seo/), read 2026-11-05 - When post metadata fields are left blank, Ghost falls back to data from the content on the page. primary source: [ghost.org/help/seo/](https://ghost.org/help/seo/), read 2026-11-05 - Ghost(Pro) managed hosting is sold in Starter, Publisher, Business and Custom plans on Ghost's pricing page. primary source: [ghost.org/pricing/](https://ghost.org/pricing/), read 2026-11-05 - Ghost's main repository dates from 2013-05-04 and counted 55,685 stars on GitHub when read. observed: [api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost](https://api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost), read 2026-11-05 - The TryGhost/Ghost repository on GitHub is MIT-licensed. primary source: [api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost](https://api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost), read 2026-11-05 ## Products and plans | Product | What it is | Price | As of | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Ghost | Open-source publishing platform, self-hosted. | Free, open source; MIT licence; api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost | 2026-11-05 | | Ghost(Pro) | Managed Ghost hosting in Starter, Publisher, Business and Custom plans. | From USD 15 per month billed yearly: Starter 15, Publisher 29, Business 199; Starter is 18 billed monthly; the Custom plan has no listed amount; ghost.org/pricing/ | 2026-11-05 | ## Standards | Row | What it asks | Status | What the vendor's pages say | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AR-FIND-03 | Sitemap listed in robots.txt | supports | An XML sitemap is created and updated automatically. | ghost.org/help/seo/ | | AR-READ-01 | Answer in the initial HTML | no statement | The pages read today do not state the rendering mode. | none | | AR-READ-07 | Ship llms.txt | no statement | No llms.txt feature was found in the help pages read. | none | | AR-READ-08 | JSON-LD on key pages | supports | Structured data is included in all posts and pages automatically. | ghost.org/help/seo/ | | AR-ACT-03 | MCP over Streamable HTTP | no statement | No MCP feature was found. | none | | CF-MARKDOWN-NEGOTIATION | Markdown by Accept | no statement | No markdown negotiation was found. | none | ## Checks on its own site | Reading | Result | Date | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Cloudflare scan of ghost.org | 20 of 100, band L1 Basic Web Presence | 2026-11-05 | isitagentready.com | | Crawl row for ghost.org | 5 of 10 checks pass; Tranco rank 4,363 | 2026-11-04 | agentreadychecklist.com/data/ | | Home pages counted in the crawl | 2 of 5,897; Counted from the shared crawl of 2026-11-04 by generator meta tag in the home page HTML; the generator rule only sees tags whose name attribute comes first, so it undercounts | 2026-11-04 | agentreadychecklist.com/data/ | | Check | Result | Verify Kit check | | --- | --- | --- | | robots.txt allows all 17 agent tokens at / | pass | robots-verdicts | | robots.txt blocks no search or user-fetch token | pass | robots-verdicts | | Home page has an h1 and 50 words in the initial HTML | pass | initial-html | | A missing path returns 404 or 410 | pass | status-codes | | /llms.txt exists | fail | llms-linked | | Home page links to llms.txt | fail | llms-linked | | Accept: text/markdown returns text/markdown | fail | markdown-negotiation | | Home page carries JSON-LD that parses | pass | json-ld | | OpenAPI linked from the home page or served at /openapi.json | fail | openapi | | /.well-known/mcp.json serves JSON | fail | mcp-or-cli | ## What it does not do - Ghost does not publish an llms.txt file in the help pages read. - Ghost does not list an amount for the Ghost(Pro) Custom plan. ## Reading notes Ghost(Pro) amounts are the yearly-billing prices printed on the pricing page on 2026-11-05. ## Related pages on this site Same type [CMSs](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/by-type/cms/), [all vendors](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/) ## Sources - [ghost.org](https://ghost.org)read 2026-11-05 - [api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/latest](https://api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/latest)read 2026-11-05 - [ghost.org/help/seo/](https://ghost.org/help/seo/)read 2026-11-05 - [ghost.org/pricing/](https://ghost.org/pricing/)read 2026-11-05 - [api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost](https://api.github.com/repos/TryGhost/Ghost)read 2026-11-05 - [isitagentready.com](https://isitagentready.com/)read 2026-11-05 - [agentreadychecklist.com/data/](https://agentreadychecklist.com/data/)read 2026-11-04 Edition Data 2026-11-04 Reviewed 2026-11-05 Spec AgentReady v2.0, 273d2d7 Crawl 13,071 rows, 2026-11-04 Ora 132 checks, contract 1.38.0, 2026-11-05 Verify with Ora The scanner this site recommends for the whole checklist. 132 checks, a score out of 100, no account. `npx ax@0.10 audit --min-score ` [Why Ora, and its limits](https://agentreadychecklist.com/verify-with-ora/) Method - [How rows, commands and rates are made](https://agentreadychecklist.com/method/) - [How an Ora check is matched to a row](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ora-checks/) - [Pass rates by rank band](https://agentreadychecklist.com/data/by-rank/) Sources and read dates sit at the foot of the page. Last reviewed 2026-11-05. AgentReady v2.0, read 2026-11-04.