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Error Prone alternatives for AI agents.

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Error Prone

Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors

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#1

Sonarqube

Similarity 133Trust 100Excellent 100

Continuous Inspection

11K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add SonarSource/sonarqube
#2

Checkstyle

Similarity 132Trust 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
#3

NullAway

Similarity 131Trust 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
#4

Spotbugs

Similarity 131Trust 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
#5

Soot

Similarity 131Trust 100Excellent 100

Soot - A Java optimization framework

3.1K starsMay 29, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add soot-oss/soot
#6

Tai E

Similarity 130Trust 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
#7

Infer

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

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

16K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add facebook/infer
#8

Recaf

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

The modern Java bytecode editor

7.2K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add Col-E/Recaf
#9

Pmd

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

5.4K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pmd/pmd
#10

Shellcheck

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 100

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

40K starsMay 16, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add koalaman/shellcheck
#11

SwiftLint

Similarity 120Trust 100Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

20K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint
#12

PHP Parser

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 99

A PHP parser written in PHP

17K starsFeb 26, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add nikic/PHP-Parser
#13

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
#14

Phpstan

Similarity 119Trust 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
#15

PHP CS Fixer

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues

14K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer
#16

Hadolint

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

12K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add hadolint/hadolint

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