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Rob Ragan

Rob Ragan

Offensive 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