Alternatives

Detekt alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Detekt

Static code analysis for Kotlin

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#1

SwiftLint

Similarity 127Trust 92Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

20K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint
#2

Revive

Similarity 125Trust 97Excellent 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
#3

Pylint

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

It's not just a linter that annoys you!

5.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pylint-dev/pylint
#4

Spotbugs

Similarity 124Trust 96Excellent 100

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

3.9K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add spotbugs/spotbugs
#5

Pmd

Similarity 124Trust 90Excellent 100

An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

5.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pmd/pmd
#6

Ruff

Similarity 120Trust 95Excellent 100

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

48K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add astral-sh/ruff
#7

Shellcheck

Similarity 120Trust 93Excellent 100

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

40K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add koalaman/shellcheck
#8

Ast Grep

Similarity 118Trust 93Excellent 100

⚡A CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting. Written in Rust

15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add ast-grep/ast-grep
#9

Grype

Similarity 118Trust 94Excellent 100

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

12K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/grype
#10

Detect It Easy

Similarity 118Trust 95Excellent 100

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

11K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add horsicq/Detect-It-Easy
#11

Checkstyle

Similarity 118Trust 97Excellent 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 16, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add checkstyle/checkstyle
#12

Checkov

Similarity 118Trust 96Excellent 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 14, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add bridgecrewio/checkov
#13

Hadolint

Similarity 118Trust 91Excellent 100

Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

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

Syft

Similarity 117Trust 93Excellent 100

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

9.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/syft
#15

Psalm

Similarity 117Trust 97Excellent 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
#16

Credo

Similarity 117Trust 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

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