Rob Ragan
FOUNDING CONTRIBUTOROffensive 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