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A PHP parser written in PHP
17K starsFeb 26, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add nikic/PHP-ParserAlternatives
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PHP CS Fixer
A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues
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PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!
14K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
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A PHP static analysis tool for finding errors and security vulnerabilities in PHP applications
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$ npx skills add vimeo/psalm#4
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$ npx skills add phan/phan#5
PHPMD is a spin-off project of PHP Depend and aims to be a PHP equivalent of the well known Java tool PMD. PHPMD can be seen as an user friendly frontend application for the raw metrics stream measured by PHP Depend.
2.4K starsMay 23, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpmd/phpmd#6
Next-gen phpDoc parser with support for intersection types and generics
1.5K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpdoc-parser#7
Mago is a toolchain for PHP that aims to provide a set of tools to help developers write better code.
3.2K starsJun 7, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add carthage-software/mago#8
PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.
1.5K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer#9
ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts
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$ npx skills add koalaman/shellcheck#10
A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.
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$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint#11
A static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C
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$ npx skills add facebook/infer#12
Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell
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$ npx skills add hadolint/hadolint#13
Continuous Inspection
11K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add SonarSource/sonarqube#14
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 8, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add checkstyle/checkstyle#15
Go security checker
8.9K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add securego/gosec#16
Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors
7.2K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
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