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Recaf alternatives for AI agents.

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Recaf

The modern Java bytecode editor

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#1

Bytecode Viewer

Similarity 133Trust 100Excellent 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

Soot

Similarity 131Trust 100Excellent 100

Soot - A Java optimization framework

3.1K starsMay 29, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add soot-oss/soot
#3

Sonarqube

Similarity 125Trust 100Excellent 100

Continuous Inspection

11K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add SonarSource/sonarqube
#4

Checkstyle

Similarity 124Trust 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
#5

Error Prone

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors

7.2K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add google/error-prone
#6

Pmd

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

5.4K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pmd/pmd
#7

NullAway

Similarity 123Trust 100Excellent 100

A tool to help eliminate NullPointerExceptions (NPEs) in your Java code with low build-time overhead

4.1K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add uber/NullAway
#8

Spotbugs

Similarity 123Trust 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
#9

Tai E

Similarity 122Trust 100Excellent 100

An easy-to-learn/use static analysis framework for Java and Android

1.8K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pascal-lab/Tai-e
#10

Infer

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

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

16K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add facebook/infer
#11

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
#12

Booster

Similarity 117Trust 100Excellent 96

🚀Optimizer for mobile applications

5.1K starsMar 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentKotlinStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add didi/booster
#13

Cpp2IL

Similarity 116Trust 100Excellent 100

Work-in-progress tool to reverse unity's IL2CPP toolchain.

2.4K starsJun 7, 2026 pushdevelopmentC#Static Analysis
$ npx skills add SamboyCoding/Cpp2IL
#14

Spoon

Similarity 114Trust 100Excellent 99

Spoon is a metaprogramming library to analyze and transform Java source code. :spoon: is made with :heart:, :beers: and :sparkles:. It parses source files to build a well-designed AST with powerful analysis and transformation API.

1.9K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add INRIA/spoon
#15

ImHex

Similarity 113Trust 100Excellent 100

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

54K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentC++Static Analysis
$ npx skills add WerWolv/ImHex
#16

Ruff

Similarity 113Trust 100Excellent 100

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

48K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add astral-sh/ruff

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