No server code. Ghost(Pro) runs no custom server code; self-hosted Ghost is a Node app you can put the Express-style middleware in front of.
Ghost(Pro) runs no custom server code; self-hosted Ghost is a Node app you can put the Express-style middleware in front of. On Ghost(Pro), a Cloudflare Worker in front of the site is the route.
What it does not: without a place to run, the agent cannot count visits or apply switches on this host — put a Cloudflare Worker in front of it, or move the domain to a host with middleware.
How installing the agent works, in general → · what the agent does and never does →
No. Installing puts the agent in place and binds it to the site by its token; nothing is applied. Every switch is your click in the dashboard and every word it writes is shown to you first.
Nothing was installed on this host; the Cloudflare Worker, if you used one, is removed in Cloudflare.
The 23 checks run from outside on every page check. The free tools read the site the way AI does. Without a place to run, the agent cannot count visits or apply switches on this host — put a Cloudflare Worker in front of it, or move the domain to a host with middleware.
Yes — it belongs to this one site and should live in an environment variable, never in a file you commit. It grants nothing beyond this site, and the domain proof refuses it from any other host.
The 23 checks run from outside before anything is installed — you see what the agent would do before it does it.