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...or does NodeBB make sure all requests and posts to /admin/* are administrators?
/admin/*
You don't have to. NodeBB core makes sure all requests to those routes are from admins.
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/src/routes/index.js#L125-L126