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Shellcheck alternatives for AI agents.

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Shellcheck

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

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#1

Hadolint

Similarity 138Trust 84Excellent 100

Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

12K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add hadolint/hadolint
#2

SwiftLint

Similarity 126Trust 88Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

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

Ruff

Similarity 119Trust 88Excellent 100

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

48K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add astral-sh/ruff
#4

Infer

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

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

16K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add facebook/infer
#5

Phpstan

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

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

14K starsJun 24, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpstan
#6

PHP CS Fixer

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues

14K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer
#7

Ast Grep

Similarity 117Trust 85Excellent 100

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

15K starsJul 18, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add ast-grep/ast-grep
#8

Sonarqube

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

Continuous Inspection

11K starsJul 17, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add SonarSource/sonarqube
#9

Checkstyle

Similarity 116Trust 88Excellent 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.

9.0K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add checkstyle/checkstyle
#10

Gosec

Similarity 116Trust 87Excellent 99

Go security checker

8.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add securego/gosec
#11

ImHex

Similarity 111Trust 91Excellent 100

🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

54K starsJul 27, 2026 pushdevelopmentC++Static Analysis
$ npx skills add WerWolv/ImHex
#12

Reviewdog

Similarity 110Trust 85Excellent 99

🐶 Automated code review tool integrated with any code analysis tools regardless of programming language

9.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoCode Review
$ npx skills add reviewdog/reviewdog
#13

Mobile Security Framework MobSF

Similarity 110Trust 87Excellent 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
#14

Semgrep

Similarity 110Trust 90Excellent 100

Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code.

16K starsJun 22, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add semgrep/semgrep
#15

Mastg

Similarity 109Trust 90Excellent 100

The OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG) is a comprehensive manual for mobile app security testing and reverse engineering. It describes technical processes for verifying the OWASP Mobile Security Weakness Enumeration (MASWE) weaknesses, which are in alignment with the OWASP MASVS.

13K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add OWASP/mastg
#16

Grype

Similarity 109Trust 87Excellent 100

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

13K starsJul 17, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/grype

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