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Pep8speaks alternatives for AI agents.

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A GitHub :octocat: app to automatically review Python code style over Pull Requests

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#1

Pylint

Similarity 139Trust 94Excellent 100

It's not just a linter that annoys you!

5.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pylint-dev/pylint
#2

Flake8

Similarity 137Trust 91Excellent 100

flake8 is a python tool that glues together pycodestyle, pyflakes, mccabe, and third-party plugins to check the style and quality of some python code.

3.8K starsMay 19, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add PyCQA/flake8
#3

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
#4

SwiftLint

Similarity 127Trust 93Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

20K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint
#5

Detekt

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

Static code analysis for Kotlin

7.0K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevelopmentKotlinStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add detekt/detekt
#6

Revive

Similarity 125Trust 96Excellent 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
#7

Spotbugs

Similarity 124Trust 95Excellent 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
#8

Pmd

Similarity 124Trust 91Excellent 100

An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

5.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pmd/pmd
#9

Mago

Similarity 124Trust 94Excellent 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
#10

Checkov

Similarity 124Trust 95Excellent 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 14, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add bridgecrewio/checkov
#11

CodeBoarding

Similarity 121Trust 92Excellent 100

Interactive architecture diagrams for codebases

2.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add CodeBoarding/CodeBoarding
#12

Pytype

Similarity 120Trust 87Excellent 93

A static type analyzer for Python code

5.0K starsMar 16, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add google/pytype
#13

Shellcheck

Similarity 119Trust 92Excellent 100

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

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

CrossHair

Similarity 119Trust 91Excellent 97

An analysis tool for Python that blurs the line between testing and type systems.

1.3K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pschanely/CrossHair
#15

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
#16

Grype

Similarity 118Trust 94Excellent 100

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

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

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