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Reading alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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#1

Bytecode Viewer

Similarity 119Trust 96Excellent 100

A Java 8+ Jar & Android APK Reverse Engineering Suite (Decompiler, Editor, Debugger & More)

16K starsApr 2, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add Konloch/bytecode-viewer
#2

ImHex

Similarity 112Trust 98Excellent 100

🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

54K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentC++Static Analysis
$ npx skills add WerWolv/ImHex
#3

Ruff

Similarity 112Trust 95Excellent 100

An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.

48K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add astral-sh/ruff
#4

Shellcheck

Similarity 112Trust 93Excellent 100

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

40K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add koalaman/shellcheck
#5

Mobile Security Framework MobSF

Similarity 111Trust 97Excellent 100

Mobile Security Framework (MobSF) is an automated, all-in-one mobile application (Android/iOS/Windows) pen-testing, malware analysis and security assessment framework capable of performing static and dynamic analysis.

21K starsMay 19, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF
#6

Semgrep

Similarity 111Trust 98Excellent 100

Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code.

16K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add semgrep/semgrep
#7

Mastg

Similarity 111Trust 98Excellent 100

The OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG) is a comprehensive manual for mobile app security testing and reverse engineering. It describes technical processes for verifying the OWASP Mobile Security Weakness Enumeration (MASWE) weaknesses, which are in alignment with the OWASP MASVS.

13K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add OWASP/mastg
#8

Infer

Similarity 111Trust 95Excellent 100

A static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C

16K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add facebook/infer
#9

SwiftLint

Similarity 111Trust 92Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

20K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint
#10

Phpstan

Similarity 110Trust 95Excellent 100

PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!

14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpstan
#11

PHP CS Fixer

Similarity 110Trust 95Excellent 100

A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues

14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer
#12

Ast Grep

Similarity 110Trust 93Excellent 100

⚡A CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting. Written in Rust

15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add ast-grep/ast-grep
#13

PHP Parser

Similarity 110Trust 91Excellent 100

A PHP parser written in PHP

17K starsFeb 26, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add nikic/PHP-Parser
#14

Grype

Similarity 110Trust 94Excellent 100

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

12K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/grype
#15

Detect It Easy

Similarity 110Trust 95Excellent 100

Program for determining types of files for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

11K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add horsicq/Detect-It-Easy
#16

Checkstyle

Similarity 110Trust 97Excellent 100

Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. By default it supports the Google Java Style Guide and Sun Code Conventions, but is highly configurable. It can be invoked with an ANT task and a command line program.

8.9K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add checkstyle/checkstyle

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