Rob Ragan
FOUNDING CONTRIBUTOROffensive security researcher and AI agent architect. Founder of Starlog.
offensive securityAI agentspenetration testingred teamingapplication security
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
Building Explainer Videos as Code: Inside Video Explainer's AI-Powered Pipeline
By Rob Ragan ★ 138 Python Apr 3, 2026
Developer Tools
Building a Browser Extension Threat Intelligence Feed with Flat Files and Local-First Scanning
By Rob Ragan ★ 142 HTML Apr 3, 2026
Developer Tools
CyberStrike: Turning Your Claude or GPT Subscription Into an Autonomous Penetration Testing Agent
By Rob Ragan ★ 151 TypeScript Apr 3, 2026
Developer Tools
Nightwire: Ship Production Code from Your Phone via Signal
By Rob Ragan ★ 155 Python Apr 3, 2026
Developer Tools
VulnBot: When AI Agents Learn to Think Like Penetration Testers
By Rob Ragan ★ 157 Python Apr 3, 2026
Developer Tools
ARTKIT: Building Multi-Turn Adversarial Testing Pipelines for Gen AI Systems
By Rob Ragan ★ 165 Jupyter Notebook Apr 3, 2026
Developer Tools
CVE-Bench: Testing Whether AI Agents Can Exploit Real-World Vulnerabilities
By Rob Ragan ★ 188 Python Apr 3, 2026
Developer Tools
How Engine Simulator Synthesizes Authentic V8 Rumble from Physics, Not Samples
By Rob Ragan ★ 9.3k C++ Apr 3, 2026
Automation
Testing Your Security Crawler Against Google's Maze: A Deep Dive into security-crawl-maze
By Rob Ragan ★ 165 HTML Apr 3, 2026
Data & Knowledge
tlsx: How ProjectDiscovery Built a Multi-Protocol TLS Scanner for Offensive Reconnaissance
By Rob Ragan ★ 1.1k Go Apr 3, 2026
Data & Knowledge
Building a Universal Secrets Database: How secrets-patterns-db Centralizes Detection Across Security Tools
By Rob Ragan ★ 1.4k Python Apr 3, 2026
LLM Engineering
Mesh LLM: Distributed Inference Without the Latency Tax
By Rob Ragan ★ 326 Rust Apr 3, 2026