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Infer alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Infer

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

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#1

Checkstyle

Similarity 134Trust 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
#2

Cppcheck

Similarity 134Trust 100Excellent 100

static analysis of C/C++ code

6.6K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentC++Static Analysis
$ npx skills add cppcheck-opensource/cppcheck
#3

Semgrep

Similarity 133Trust 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
#4

NullAway

Similarity 133Trust 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
#5

Spotbugs

Similarity 133Trust 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
#6

Phpstan

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

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

14K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpstan
#7

Sonarqube

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

Continuous Inspection

11K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add SonarSource/sonarqube
#8

Gosec

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

Go security checker

8.9K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add securego/gosec
#9

Error Prone

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors

7.2K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add google/error-prone
#10

Pylint

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

It's not just a linter that annoys you!

5.7K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pylint-dev/pylint
#11

Phan

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

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
#12

Revive

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

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

5.5K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add mgechev/revive
#13

Pmd

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

5.4K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pmd/pmd
#14

Soot

Similarity 125Trust 100Excellent 100

Soot - A Java optimization framework

3.1K starsMay 29, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add soot-oss/soot
#15

Codechecker

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

CodeChecker is an analyzer tooling, defect database and viewer extension for static and dynamic analyzer tools.

2.6K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add Ericsson/codechecker
#16

Pyre Check

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

Performant type-checking for python.

7.2K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add facebook/pyre-check

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