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Detect It Easy alternatives for AI agents.

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ImHex

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 100

๐Ÿ” 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
#2

SwiftLint

Similarity 120Trust 100Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

20K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint
#3

Grype

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

12K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/grype
#4

Syft

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

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

9.1K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/syft
#5

Checkstyle

Similarity 118Trust 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
#6

Scanners Box

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

A powerful and open-source toolkit for hackers and security automation - ๅฎ‰ๅ…จ่กŒไธšไปŽไธš่€…่‡ช็ ”ๅผ€ๆบๆ‰ซๆๅ™จๅˆ่พ‘

8.9K starsJun 1, 2026 pushdevelopmentStatic AnalysisClaude Code
$ npx skills add We5ter/Scanners-Box
#7

Checkov

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 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 7, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add bridgecrewio/checkov
#8

Detekt

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

Static code analysis for Kotlin

7.0K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentKotlinStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add detekt/detekt
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Mobile Security Framework MobSF

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

Mobile Security Framework (MobSF) is an automated, all-in-one mobile application (Android/iOS/Windows) pen-testing, malware analysis and security assessment framework capable of performing static and dynamic analysis.

21K starsMay 19, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF
#10

Psalm

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

A PHP static analysis tool for finding errors and security vulnerabilities in PHP applications

5.8K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add vimeo/psalm
#11

Pylint

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

It's not just a linter that annoys you!

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

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

๐Ÿ”ฅ ~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 118Trust 100Excellent 100

An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

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

Binsider

Similarity 117Trust 100Excellent 100

Analyze ELF binaries like a boss ๐Ÿ˜ผ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ

4.3K starsJun 7, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add orhun/binsider
#15

Spotbugs

Similarity 117Trust 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
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Kube Linter

Similarity 117Trust 100Excellent 100

KubeLinter is a static analysis tool that checks Kubernetes YAML files and Helm charts to ensure the applications represented in them adhere to best practices.

3.5K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add stackrox/kube-linter

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