Alternatives

Checkov Action alternatives for AI agents.

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

Current skill

Checkov Action

This GitHub Action runs Checkov against infrastructure-as-code, open source packages, container images, and CI/CD configurations to identify misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and license compliance issues.

Quality

Trust

307

Stars

Wazuh

Similarity 110Trust 89Excellent 100

Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.

16K starsJun 12, 2026 pushsecurityC++Compliance

$ npx skills add wazuh/wazuh

Opa

Similarity 110Trust 92Excellent 100

Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.

12K starsJun 12, 2026 pushsecurityGoCompliance

$ npx skills add open-policy-agent/opa

Kyverno

Similarity 109Trust 91Excellent 100

Unified Policy as Code

7.8K starsJun 8, 2026 pushsecurityGoCompliance

$ npx skills add kyverno/kyverno

Nuclei

Similarity 105Trust 93Excellent 100

Nuclei is a fast, customizable vulnerability scanner powered by the global security community and built on a simple YAML-based DSL, enabling collaboration to tackle trending vulnerabilities on the internet. It helps you find vulnerabilities in your applications, APIs, networks, DNS, and cloud configurations.

29K starsJun 13, 2026 pushsecurityGoSecurity

$ npx skills add projectdiscovery/nuclei

Zaproxy

Similarity 104Trust 92Excellent 100

The ZAP by Checkmarx Core project

15K starsJun 11, 2026 pushsecurityJavaSecurity

$ npx skills add zaproxy/zaproxy

Lynis

Similarity 104Trust 90Excellent 100

Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional.

16K starsMay 11, 2026 pushsecurityShellSecurity

$ npx skills add CISOfy/lynis

Maigret

Similarity 97Trust 88Excellent 100

🕵️‍♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites

33K starsJun 11, 2026 pushsecurityPythonOSINT

$ npx skills add soxoj/maigret

Instaloader

Similarity 96Trust 92Excellent 100

Download pictures (or videos) along with their captions and other metadata from Instagram.

13K starsApr 15, 2026 pushsecurityPythonOSINT

$ npx skills add instaloader/instaloader

Vuls

Similarity 96Trust 92Excellent 100

Agent-less vulnerability scanner for Linux, FreeBSD, Container, WordPress, Programming language libraries, Network devices

12K starsJun 12, 2026 pushsecurityGoSecurity

$ npx skills add future-architect/vuls

#10

Osv Scanner

Similarity 96Trust 93Excellent 100

Vulnerability scanner written in Go which uses the data provided by https://osv.dev

11K starsJun 20, 2026 pushsecurityGoSecurity

$ npx skills add google/osv-scanner

#11

Infisical

Similarity 96Trust 83Excellent 100

Infisical is the open-source platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management.

27K starsJun 20, 2026 pushsecurityTypeScriptSecurity

$ npx skills add Infisical/infisical

#12

Crucix

Similarity 95Trust 92Excellent 100

Your personal intelligence agent. Watches the world from multiple data sources and pings you when something changes.

10K starsMay 20, 2026 pushsecurityJavaScriptOSINT

$ npx skills add calesthio/Crucix

#13

Shadowbroker

Similarity 95Trust 92Excellent 100

Open-source intelligence for the global theater. Track everything from the corporate/private jets of the wealthy, and spy satellites, to seismic events in one unified interface. Hook an AI agent up to have it parse through data and find previously unseen correlations. The knowledge is available to all but rarely aggregated in the open, until now.

9.2K starsJun 12, 2026 pushsecurityPythonOSINT

$ npx skills add BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker

#14

Wpscan

Similarity 95Trust 89Excellent 100

WPScan WordPress security scanner. Written for security professionals and blog maintainers to test the security of their WordPress websites. Contact us via contact@wpscan.com

9.6K starsJun 12, 2026 pushsecurityRubySecurity

$ npx skills add wpscanteam/wpscan

#15

Bbot

Similarity 94Trust 87Excellent 100

The recursive internet scanner for hackers. 🧡

9.9K starsJun 12, 2026 pushsecurityPythonOSINT

$ npx skills add blacklanternsecurity/bbot

#16

Bandit

Similarity 94Trust 89Excellent 100

Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.

8.1K starsMay 25, 2026 pushsecurityPythonSecurity

$ npx skills add PyCQA/bandit

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When should you switch?

Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Checkov Action if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.

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