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Ikos alternatives for AI agents.

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Ikos

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

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#1

Cppcheck

Similarity 131Trust 94Excellent 100

static analysis of C/C++ code

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

Pyre Check

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

Performant type-checking for python.

7.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add facebook/pyre-check
#3

Shellcheck

Similarity 120Trust 93Excellent 100

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

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

SwiftLint

Similarity 119Trust 92Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

20K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint
#6

Phpstan

Similarity 118Trust 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
#7

PHP CS Fixer

Similarity 118Trust 95Excellent 100

A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues

14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer
#8

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
#9

PHP Parser

Similarity 118Trust 91Excellent 100

A PHP parser written in PHP

17K starsFeb 26, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add nikic/PHP-Parser
#10

Checkstyle

Similarity 118Trust 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
#11

Sonarqube

Similarity 118Trust 95Excellent 100

Continuous Inspection

11K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add SonarSource/sonarqube
#12

Hadolint

Similarity 118Trust 91Excellent 100

Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

12K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add hadolint/hadolint
#13

Gosec

Similarity 117Trust 94Excellent 100

Go security checker

8.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add securego/gosec
#14

Psalm

Similarity 117Trust 97Excellent 100

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

5.9K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add vimeo/psalm
#15

Revive

Similarity 117Trust 97Excellent 100

🔥 ~6x faster, stricter, configurable, extensible, and beautiful drop-in replacement for golint

5.5K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add mgechev/revive
#16

Error Prone

Similarity 117Trust 94Excellent 100

Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors

7.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add google/error-prone

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