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Revive alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Revive

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#1

Gosec

Similarity 147Trust 94Excellent 100

Go security checker

8.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add securego/gosec
#2

Pylint

Similarity 141Trust 94Excellent 100

It's not just a linter that annoys you!

5.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pylint-dev/pylint
#3

Spotbugs

Similarity 140Trust 96Excellent 100

SpotBugs is FindBugs' successor. A tool for static analysis to look for bugs in Java code.

3.9K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add spotbugs/spotbugs
#4

Grype

Similarity 140Trust 94Excellent 100

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

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

Syft

Similarity 139Trust 93Excellent 100

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

9.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/syft
#6

Go Tools

Similarity 139Trust 94Excellent 100

Staticcheck - The advanced Go linter

6.8K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add dominikh/go-tools
#7

Kube Linter

Similarity 138Trust 96Excellent 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 10, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add stackrox/kube-linter
#8

SwiftLint

Similarity 135Trust 92Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

20K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint
#9

Checkstyle

Similarity 134Trust 97Excellent 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 16, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add checkstyle/checkstyle
#10

Pmd

Similarity 132Trust 90Excellent 100

An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

5.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pmd/pmd
#11

Nilaway

Similarity 130Trust 93Excellent 100

Static analysis tool to detect potential nil panics in Go code

3.8K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add uber-go/nilaway
#12

Ruff

Similarity 128Trust 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
#13

Shellcheck

Similarity 128Trust 93Excellent 100

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

40K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add koalaman/shellcheck
#14

Infer

Similarity 127Trust 95Excellent 100

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

16K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add facebook/infer
#15

Phpstan

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

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

14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpstan
#16

Hadolint

Similarity 126Trust 91Excellent 100

Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

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

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