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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

Cybersecurity

CVE-2024-22026: How Unsigned RPM Installation Becomes Root-Level Compromise

By Rob Ragan ★ 15 Shell Apr 3, 2026
AI Dev Tools

PII Detective: Finding Sensitive Data by Reading the Room (Not the Records)

By Rob Ragan ★ 54 TypeScript Apr 3, 2026
Developer Tools

Building Shazam from Scratch: Inside SeekTune's Audio Fingerprinting Pipeline

By Rob Ragan ★ 5.6k Go Apr 3, 2026
Cybersecurity

Kraken: The Security Testing Menu That Consolidates 18 Attack Vectors Into One CLI

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.1k Python Apr 3, 2026
AI Agents

Vivaria: Inside METR's Agent Evaluation Platform Before the Migration to Inspect AI

By Rob Ragan ★ 135 TypeScript Apr 3, 2026
Developer Tools

PIGEON: How CLIP Embeddings Predict GPS Coordinates from Photos (And Why the Code Won't Help You Build It)

By Rob Ragan ★ 257 Python Apr 3, 2026
AI Dev Tools

Dotai: Engineering AI Context as Infrastructure for Claude and Cursor

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.1k Shell Apr 3, 2026
LLM Engineering

Building RAG Systems From First Principles: A Workshop Teardown

By Rob Ragan ★ 4 Python Apr 3, 2026
LLM Engineering

Building a Privacy-First File Organizer with On-Device AI Models

By Rob Ragan ★ 3.2k Python Apr 3, 2026
AI Dev Tools

o1-engineer: Teaching OpenAI's Reasoning Model to Write Your Codebase

By Rob Ragan ★ 2.9k Python Apr 3, 2026
LLM Engineering

MLX-VLM: Running Vision Language Models Locally on Apple Silicon Without the CUDA Tax

By Rob Ragan ★ 2.6k Python Apr 3, 2026
Developer Tools

RobAI: A Minimalist Framework for OpenAI Function Calling Without the LangChain Bloat

By Rob Ragan ★ 15 Python Apr 3, 2026