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Psychec alternatives for AI agents.

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Psychec

A compiler frontend for the C programming language

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#1

Cppcheck

Similarity 123Trust 94Excellent 100

static analysis of C/C++ code

6.6K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentC++Static Analysis
$ npx skills add cppcheck-opensource/cppcheck
#2

Semgrep

Similarity 119Trust 98Excellent 100

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

16K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add semgrep/semgrep
#3

Bytecode Viewer

Similarity 119Trust 96Excellent 100

A Java 8+ Jar & Android APK Reverse Engineering Suite (Decompiler, Editor, Debugger & More)

16K starsApr 2, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add Konloch/bytecode-viewer
#4

Infer

Similarity 119Trust 95Excellent 100

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

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

ImHex

Similarity 118Trust 98Excellent 100

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

54K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentC++Static Analysis
$ npx skills add WerWolv/ImHex
#6

PHP Parser

Similarity 118Trust 91Excellent 100

A PHP parser written in PHP

17K starsFeb 26, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add nikic/PHP-Parser
#7

Phasar

Similarity 118Trust 89Excellent 96

A LLVM-based static analysis framework.

1.0K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentC++Static Analysis
$ npx skills add secure-software-engineering/phasar
#8

Mago

Similarity 116Trust 96Excellent 100

Mago is a toolchain for PHP that aims to provide a set of tools to help developers write better code.

3.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add carthage-software/mago
#9

Reek

Similarity 116Trust 93Excellent 100

Code smell detector for Ruby

4.1K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentRubyStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add troessner/reek
#10

Codechecker

Similarity 115Trust 95Excellent 100

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

2.6K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add Ericsson/codechecker
#11

Cake

Similarity 115Trust 82Strong 81

Cake a C23 front end and transpiler written in C

677 starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentCStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add thradams/cake
#12

Cmake Init

Similarity 115Trust 91Excellent 99

The missing CMake project initializer

2.5K starsApr 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentCMakeStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add friendlyanon/cmake-init
#13

Ikos

Similarity 113Trust 89Excellent 100

Static analyzer for C/C++ based on the theory of Abstract Interpretation.

3.2K starsMay 31, 2026 pushdevelopmentC++Static Analysis
$ npx skills add NASA-SW-VnV/ikos
#14

Ruff

Similarity 112Trust 95Excellent 100

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

48K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add astral-sh/ruff
#15

SVF

Similarity 112Trust 89Excellent 99

Static Value-Flow Analysis Framework for Source Code

1.7K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdevelopmentC++Static Analysis
$ npx skills add SVF-tools/SVF
#16

Shellcheck

Similarity 112Trust 93Excellent 100

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

40K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add koalaman/shellcheck

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