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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

AI Agents

Starlog Index: Teaching AI Agents to Stop Installing Lodash in 2025

By Rob Ragan ★ 1 Unknown Jun 1, 2026
AI Agents

aenv: Version-Controlled Environments for AI Coding Agent Configuration

By Rob Ragan ★ 1 Unknown Jun 1, 2026
AI Agents

UltraCode-Shim: Hijacking Claude Code's Premium Mode for Any LLM

By Rob Ragan ★ 125 Unknown Jun 1, 2026
Cybersecurity

Building Reproducible Penetration Testing Environments with NixOS: nixos-pentest

By Rob Ragan ★ 3 Unknown May 30, 2026
AI Dev Tools

Generative Engine Optimization: Mapping the $40M Industry Built on Black Boxes

By Rob Ragan ★ 380 Unknown May 27, 2026
LLM Engineering

Inside AI Product Bench: Why Two LLMs Disagree on Half Their Product Recommendations

By Rob Ragan ★ 23 Unknown May 27, 2026
AI Dev Tools

Inside Claude's Mind: A Forensic Analysis of AI Tool Recommendations

By Rob Ragan ★ 65 Unknown May 27, 2026
AI Agents

Building Plugin Systems That Don't Suck: External Agents and the Process-Based Protocol Pattern

By Rob Ragan ★ 16 Unknown May 27, 2026
AI Dev Tools

Teaching AI Agents to Remember: How entireio/skills Turns Git History Into Agent Memory

By Rob Ragan ★ 175 Unknown May 27, 2026
Cybersecurity

RedAI: When Your Security Scanner Needs to Actually Prove the Exploit Works

By Rob Ragan ★ 317 Unknown May 26, 2026
Developer Tools

SecureForge: MCMC Prompt Exploration for Finding Adversarial Boundaries in Code LLMs

By Rob Ragan ★ 10 Unknown May 26, 2026
Developer Tools

NVIDIA Cosmos: A Case Study in Strategic Repository Deprecation

By Rob Ragan ★ 8.1k Unknown May 25, 2026