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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

anthropic-quickstarts: Production Templates for Claude API Applications

By Rob Ragan ★ 31 TypeScript Apr 2, 2026

Building a Sandboxed GPT Agent with Function Calling: Lessons from Core Agent

By Rob Ragan ★ 8 Python Apr 2, 2026

Teaching AI Pair Programming at Hackathons: A Look Inside the Nebula Fog Aider Workshop

By Rob Ragan ★ 2 Unknown Apr 2, 2026

Building Search-Augmented Chat with Exa and OpenAI o3-mini: A Function Calling Deep Dive

By Rob Ragan ★ 43 TypeScript Apr 2, 2026

oxp-python: A Type-Safe Python Client for the Open eXecution Protocol

By Rob Ragan ★ 17 Python Apr 2, 2026

Building Security Analysis Workflows with VirusTotal MCP: AI Assistants Meet Threat Intelligence

By Rob Ragan ★ 3 Python Apr 2, 2026

CVE-Bench: Benchmarking AI Agents Against Real-World Web Vulnerabilities

By Rob Ragan ★ 187 Python Apr 2, 2026

VulnBot: Teaching AI Agents to Hack Like a Security Team

By Rob Ragan ★ 157 Python Apr 2, 2026

Building an AI Security Analyst: Bridging Claude and Burp Suite with Model Context Protocol

By Rob Ragan ★ 7 JavaScript Apr 2, 2026

Developer Tools

Claw-Code: The Viral Rust AI Coding Tool Built on Controversy

By Rob Ragan ★ 142.3k Rust Apr 2, 2026

Data & Knowledge

ST3GG: A 100-Technique Steganography Arsenal That Hides Data in Everything

By Rob Ragan ★ 601 HTML Apr 2, 2026

Developer Tools

Running a Jailbroken iOS 26.1 VM on macOS: Inside vphone-aio's One-Script Architecture

By Rob Ragan ★ 2.6k Shell Apr 2, 2026