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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

Building Production AI Agents: The 7-Layer Architecture That Goes Beyond LangChain Tutorials

By Rob Ragan ★ 551 Python Feb 25, 2026
Infrastructure

OpenSandbox: Building Secure Execution Environments for AI Agents Without Reinventing Container Orchestration

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.1k Python Feb 25, 2026
LLM Engineering

NullClaw: A 678KB AI Assistant That Boots in 8 Milliseconds

By Rob Ragan ★ 2.1k Zig Feb 25, 2026
AI Agents

Building Type-Safe AI Agents with Zod Validation and Multi-Provider Support

By Rob Ragan ★ 484 TypeScript Feb 25, 2026
Cybersecurity

Inside Malicious Extension Sentry: Building a Community-Driven Browser Threat Database

By Rob Ragan ★ 100 HTML Feb 25, 2026
Cybersecurity

Azul: The Australian Signals Directorate's Malware Knowledge Base for Infinite Re-Analysis

By Rob Ragan ★ 43 Unknown Feb 25, 2026
Cybersecurity

How VEN0m Ransomware Uses Vulnerable Drivers to Bypass Modern Security: A Technical Breakdown

By Rob Ragan ★ 163 Rust Feb 24, 2026
AI Agents

Agent Orchestrator: Managing Parallel AI Coding Agents with Git Worktrees

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.2k TypeScript Feb 24, 2026
AI Agents

claw-wrap: A Credential Proxy for Sandboxing AI Agents Without Breaking Your CLI Workflow

By Rob Ragan ★ 86 Go Feb 24, 2026
LLM Engineering

Berry: Hallucination Detection as a First-Class Development Primitive

By Rob Ragan ★ 1.6k Python Feb 22, 2026
LLM Engineering

LLM Checker: Hardware-Aware Model Selection for Local Inference

By Rob Ragan ★ 881 JavaScript Feb 21, 2026
Cybersecurity

Gitleaks: How Regex-Based Secret Detection Became the Gold Standard for DevSecOps Pipelines

By Rob Ragan ★ 25.0k Go Feb 20, 2026