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Rob Ragan

Rob Ragan

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

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1661 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.

// ARTICLES BY ROB RAGAN

Data & Knowledge

Nightwire: Building an AI-Powered Development Workflow Through Signal's Encrypted Messaging

By Rob Ragan ★ 159 Unknown May 7, 2026
Data & Knowledge

PageIndex: Why This RAG System Ditches Vector Databases for Tree-Based Reasoning

By Rob Ragan ★ 29.5k Unknown May 7, 2026
AI Dev Tools

Smart Connections: How Obsidian Gets Semantic Search Without Breaking Mobile

By Rob Ragan ★ 5.0k Unknown May 7, 2026
AI Agents

OpenFang: The 32MB Rust Binary That Runs Autonomous Agents Without Prompting

By Rob Ragan ★ 17.3k Unknown May 7, 2026
AI Agents

IronCurtain: Treating AI Agents Like Untrusted Binaries

By Rob Ragan ★ 345 Unknown May 7, 2026
Developer Tools

Building Financial AI Agents with Claude: Anthropic's Dual-Deployment Architecture

By Rob Ragan ★ 11.5k Unknown May 7, 2026
Developer Tools

VoiceInk: Building a Privacy-First Voice Transcription System with On-Device Whisper

By Rob Ragan ★ 4.9k Unknown May 7, 2026
LLM Engineering

RuVector: The Rust Vector Database That Rewrites Its Own Index

By Rob Ragan ★ 4.0k Unknown May 7, 2026
AI Dev Tools

VibeTunnel: The Zero-Config Terminal Proxy That Brings Your Shell to Any Browser

By Rob Ragan ★ 4.5k Unknown May 7, 2026
AI Agents

Smart Ralph: Preventing AI Coding Agents from Drowning in Their Own Context

By Rob Ragan ★ 289 Unknown May 7, 2026
AI Agents

ralph-parallel: Orchestrating Concurrent AI Agents for Parallel Code Execution

By Rob Ragan ★ 7 Unknown May 7, 2026
AI Agents

Attractor: StrongDM's Radical Bet on Shipping Specifications Instead of Code

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.1k Unknown May 7, 2026