Alternatives

Taipan alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Web application vulnerability scanner

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#1

Web Cache Vulnerability Scanner

Similarity 135Trust 86Excellent 92

Web Cache Vulnerability Scanner is a Go-based CLI tool for testing for web cache poisoning. It is developed by Hackmanit GmbH (http://hackmanit.de/).

1.2K starsJan 21, 2026 pushsecurityGoSecurity
$ npx skills add Hackmanit/Web-Cache-Vulnerability-Scanner
#2

Vuls

Similarity 126Trust 96Excellent 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
#3

Wpscan

Similarity 125Trust 93Excellent 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
#4

Bandit

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 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
#5

Ossa

Similarity 124Trust 72Needs review 51

Open-Source Security Architecture | 开源安全架构

940 starsMay 10, 2021 pushsecuritySecurityClaude Code
$ npx skills add bloodzer0/ossa
#6

Raccoon

Similarity 124Trust 93Excellent 100

A high performance offensive security tool for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning

3.6K starsApr 21, 2026 pushsecurityPythonSecurity
$ npx skills add evyatarmeged/Raccoon
#7

Artemis

Similarity 122Trust 92Excellent 100

A modular vulnerability scanner with automatic report generation capabilities.

1.2K starsJun 13, 2026 pushsecurityPythonSecurity
$ npx skills add CERT-Polska/Artemis
#8

MetaRadar

Similarity 120Trust 91Excellent 93

A tool for BLE environment monitoring. Find and track Bluetooth devices around, and get notified when the target device is detected.

1.4K starsJan 22, 2026 pushsecurityKotlinSecurity
$ npx skills add BLE-Research-Group/MetaRadar
#9

Nuclei

Similarity 120Trust 98Excellent 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
#10

Zaproxy

Similarity 119Trust 95Excellent 100

The ZAP by Checkmarx Core project

15K starsJun 11, 2026 pushsecurityJavaSecurity
$ npx skills add zaproxy/zaproxy
#11

Changeme

Similarity 118Trust 84Excellent 85

A default credential scanner.

1.5K starsJul 8, 2025 pushsecurityPythonSecurity
$ npx skills add ztgrace/changeme
#12

Caringcaribou

Similarity 118Trust 86Excellent 87

A friendly car security exploration tool for the CAN bus

918 starsJun 12, 2026 pushsecurityPythonSecurity
$ npx skills add CaringCaribou/caringcaribou
#13

Burpa

Similarity 116Trust 76Needs review 54

Burp-Automator: A Burp Suite Automation Tool with Slack Integration. It can be used with Jenkins and Selenium to automate Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST).

535 starsAug 1, 2018 pushsecurityPythonSecurity
$ npx skills add 0x4D31/burpa
#14

Oxo

Similarity 116Trust 86Excellent 85

OXO is a security scanning orchestrator for the modern age.

574 starsJun 12, 2026 pushsecurityPythonSecurity
$ npx skills add Ostorlab/oxo
#15

Reconnoitre

Similarity 116Trust 85Strong 74

A security tool for multithreaded information gathering and service enumeration whilst building directory structures to store results, along with writing out recommendations for further testing.

2.2K starsDec 11, 2022 pushsecurityPythonSecurity
$ npx skills add codingo/Reconnoitre
#16

Vigolium

Similarity 116Trust 84Strong 81

Vigolium - High-fidelity vulnerability scanner fusing agentic AI with native speed, modularity, and precision

682 starsJun 13, 2026 pushsecurityGoSecurity
$ npx skills add vigolium/vigolium

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