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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

AI Agents

Open Trajectory Gym: Training LLM Agents to Solve CTF Challenges Through Real Tool Execution

By Rob Ragan ★ 3 Python Mar 4, 2026
AI Agents

Cagent: Building a Multi-Layer Sandbox for AI Agents That Might Try to Escape

By Rob Ragan ★ 30 Go Mar 4, 2026
Developer Tools

QMD: Building a Three-Stage Hybrid Search Engine That Runs Entirely on Your Laptop

By Rob Ragan ★ 11.7k TypeScript Mar 3, 2026
AI Agents

Wardgate: A Security Gateway That Keeps Your AI Agents from Leaking Credentials

By Rob Ragan ★ 104 Go Mar 3, 2026
AI Agents

Cortex: Composable Recurrent Architectures for Agent Memory Systems

By Rob Ragan ★ 4 Python Mar 2, 2026
AI Agents

OpenFang: The 32MB Rust Binary That Runs Autonomous Agents While You Sleep

By Rob Ragan ★ 8.2k Rust Mar 2, 2026
AI Agents

IronCurtain: Compiling English Security Policies Into Deterministic Agent Guardrails

By Rob Ragan ★ 76 TypeScript Mar 2, 2026
Developer Tools

Building AI Workflows for Finance Without Code: Inside Anthropic's Plugin Architecture

By Rob Ragan ★ 5.1k Python Mar 2, 2026
AI Dev Tools

VibeTunnel: The Browser-as-Terminal Proxy That Lets You Command Your Machine From Anywhere

By Rob Ragan ★ 4.2k TypeScript Mar 2, 2026
AI Agents

Smart Ralph: How a Simpsons Character's Logic Fixes AI Coding's Context Collapse Problem

By Rob Ragan ★ 225 Shell Mar 2, 2026
AI Agents

Coordinating AI Agent Swarms: How ralph-parallel Orchestrates Concurrent Test Generation

By Rob Ragan ★ 3 Shell Mar 2, 2026
AI Agents

Attractor: The Coding Agent That Exists Only as a Specification

By Rob Ragan ★ 810 Unknown Mar 2, 2026