Alternatives

Phpat alternatives for AI agents.

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

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✔️ PHP Architecture Tester - Easy architecture testing for PHP

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#1

Phpstan

Similarity 140Trust 95Excellent 100

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

14K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpstan
#2

Phpdoc Parser

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 100

Next-gen phpDoc parser with support for intersection types and generics

1.5K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpdoc-parser
#3

PHP CS Fixer

Similarity 132Trust 95Excellent 100

A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues

14K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer
#4

PHP Parser

Similarity 132Trust 92Excellent 100

A PHP parser written in PHP

17K starsFeb 26, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add nikic/PHP-Parser
#5

Phpstan Symfony

Similarity 131Trust 86Excellent 86

Symfony extension for PHPStan

791 starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpstan-symfony
#6

Psalm

Similarity 131Trust 96Excellent 100

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

5.9K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add vimeo/psalm
#7

Phpstan Phpunit

Similarity 130Trust 86Excellent 85

PHPUnit extensions and rules for PHPStan

531 starsJun 8, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpstan-phpunit
#8

Phan

Similarity 130Trust 91Excellent 98

Phan is a static analyzer for PHP. Phan prefers to avoid false-positives and attempts to prove incorrectness rather than correctness.

5.6K starsMay 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phan/phan
#9

Phpmd

Similarity 130Trust 96Excellent 100

PHPMD is a spin-off project of PHP Depend and aims to be a PHP equivalent of the well known Java tool PMD. PHPMD can be seen as an user friendly frontend application for the raw metrics stream measured by PHP Depend.

2.4K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpmd/phpmd
#10

Shellcheck

Similarity 127Trust 92Excellent 100

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

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

SwiftLint

Similarity 127Trust 93Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

20K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint
#12

PHP CodeSniffer

Similarity 127Trust 84Strong 82

PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.

11K starsApr 1, 2024 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer
#13

Hadolint

Similarity 126Trust 91Excellent 100

Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

12K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add hadolint/hadolint
#14

Credo

Similarity 125Trust 97Excellent 100

A static code analysis tool for the Elixir language with a focus on code consistency and teaching.

5.2K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentElixirStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add rrrene/credo
#15

Go Tools

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

Staticcheck - The advanced Go linter

6.8K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add dominikh/go-tools
#16

Revive

Similarity 125Trust 96Excellent 100

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

5.5K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add mgechev/revive

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