Alternatives

Syft alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Syft

CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems

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#1

Grype

Similarity 173Trust 100Excellent 100

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

12K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/grype
#2

Clair

Similarity 149Trust 100Excellent 100

Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers

11K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add quay/clair
#3

Revive

Similarity 140Trust 100Excellent 100

πŸ”₯ ~6x faster, stricter, configurable, extensible, and beautiful drop-in replacement for golint

5.5K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add mgechev/revive
#4

Gosec

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 100

Go security checker

8.9K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add securego/gosec
#5

Kube Linter

Similarity 131Trust 100Excellent 100

KubeLinter is a static analysis tool that checks Kubernetes YAML files and Helm charts to ensure the applications represented in them adhere to best practices.

3.5K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add stackrox/kube-linter
#6

Kubesec

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 97

Security risk analysis for Kubernetes resources

1.5K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add controlplaneio/kubesec
#7

Go Tools

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

Staticcheck - The advanced Go linter

6.8K starsMay 24, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add dominikh/go-tools
#8

CodeBoarding

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 99

Interactive architecture diagrams for codebases

2.1K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add CodeBoarding/CodeBoarding
#9

Tfsec

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 98

Tfsec is now part of Trivy

7.0K starsMar 25, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add aquasecurity/tfsec
#10

Nilaway

Similarity 123Trust 100Excellent 100

Static analysis tool to detect potential nil panics in Go code

3.8K starsMay 28, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add uber-go/nilaway
#11

SwiftLint

Similarity 120Trust 100Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

20K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint
#12

Semgrep

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

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

15K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add semgrep/semgrep
#13

Hadolint

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

12K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add hadolint/hadolint
#14

Detect It Easy

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

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

11K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add horsicq/Detect-It-Easy
#15

Checkstyle

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 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 8, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add checkstyle/checkstyle
#16

Checkov

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.

8.8K starsJun 7, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add bridgecrewio/checkov

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When should you switch?

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