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Checkov alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Checkov

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

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#1

Tfsec

Similarity 142Trust 100Excellent 98

Tfsec is now part of Trivy

7.0K starsMar 25, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add aquasecurity/tfsec
#2

Pylint

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

It's not just a linter that annoys you!

5.7K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pylint-dev/pylint
#3

CodeBoarding

Similarity 122Trust 100Excellent 99

Interactive architecture diagrams for codebases

2.1K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add CodeBoarding/CodeBoarding
#4

SwiftLint

Similarity 120Trust 100Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

20K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint
#5

Grype

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

12K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/grype
#6

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
#7

Metaflow

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems

10K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonLLMOps
$ npx skills add Netflix/metaflow
#8

Syft

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

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

9.1K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/syft
#9

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
#10

Detekt

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

Static code analysis for Kotlin

7.0K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentKotlinStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add detekt/detekt
#11

Psalm

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

A PHP static analysis tool for finding errors and security vulnerabilities in PHP applications

5.8K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add vimeo/psalm
#12

Revive

Similarity 118Trust 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
#13

Pmd

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

5.4K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pmd/pmd
#14

Mastg

Similarity 117Trust 100Excellent 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 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add OWASP/mastg
#15

Spotbugs

Similarity 117Trust 100Excellent 100

SpotBugs is FindBugs' successor. A tool for static analysis to look for bugs in Java code.

3.9K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add spotbugs/spotbugs
#16

Kube Linter

Similarity 117Trust 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

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