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Rob Ragan

Rob Ragan

Offensive security researcher and AI agent architect. Founder of Starlog.

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1135 articles

Rob Ragan is an offensive security researcher and AI agent architect who has spent two decades breaking into systems and building tools to automate the process. At Starlog, he curates expert deep-dives on the open-source tools reshaping offensive security and AI agent development.

// ARTICLES BY ROB RAGAN

Developer Tools

Cybrdots: Building a Modular Cyberpunk Desktop Environment with Hyprland

By Rob Ragan ★ 188 Unknown Apr 9, 2026
LLM Engineering

MemPalace: The Local-First AI Memory System That Remembers Everything

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.7k Python Apr 7, 2026
Automation

GoGrabber: Building a Three-Phase Web Reconnaissance Pipeline in Go

By Rob Ragan ★ 52 Go Apr 7, 2026
AI Agents

Goose: Building an Autonomous AI Agent That Actually Executes Code

By Rob Ragan ★ 38.1k Rust Apr 7, 2026
Developer Tools

PANDA: Record Once, Analyze Forever Across 13 CPU Architectures

By Rob Ragan ★ 2.7k C Apr 6, 2026
Developer Tools

Resurrecting JBoss Twiddle: When Legacy JMX Tools Outlive Their Application Servers

By Rob Ragan ★ 30 Shell Apr 6, 2026
Developer Tools

Inside nullbind's Other-Projects: A Veteran Pentester's Windows Security Script Arsenal

By Rob Ragan ★ 139 Batchfile Apr 6, 2026
Cybersecurity

Python Pentest Tools: A Curated Arsenal for Security Research in the Python Ecosystem

By Rob Ragan ★ 2.9k Unknown Apr 6, 2026
Automation

Detecting Your Heartbeat Through a Webcam: How Photoplethysmography Works in Python

By Rob Ragan ★ 3.2k Python Apr 6, 2026
Developer Tools

fwknop: How Single Packet Authorization Makes Your SSH Server Invisible to Port Scanners

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.3k Perl Apr 6, 2026
Automation

Authomatic: The Framework-Agnostic Python Authentication Library You've Probably Never Heard Of

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.1k Python Apr 6, 2026
Cybersecurity

Cockatrice: Building a Cheat-Resistant Card Game Simulator with Qt and Server Authority

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.8k C++ Apr 6, 2026