Alternatives

Pmd alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Pmd

An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

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#1

Checkstyle

Similarity 138Trust 88Excellent 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.

9.0K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add checkstyle/checkstyle
#2

SwiftLint

Similarity 134Trust 88Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

20K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint
#3

Ruff

Similarity 127Trust 88Excellent 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

Infer

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

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

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

Sonarqube

Similarity 123Trust 88Excellent 100

Continuous Inspection

11K starsJul 17, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add SonarSource/sonarqube
#6

Shellcheck

Similarity 118Trust 85Excellent 100

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

40K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add koalaman/shellcheck
#7

Semgrep

Similarity 118Trust 90Excellent 100

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

16K starsJun 22, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add semgrep/semgrep
#8

Phpstan

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

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

14K starsJun 24, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpstan
#9

Grype

Similarity 117Trust 87Excellent 100

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

13K starsJul 17, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/grype
#10

Ast Grep

Similarity 117Trust 85Excellent 100

โšกA CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting. Written in Rust

15K starsJul 18, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add ast-grep/ast-grep
#11

Detect It Easy

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

Program for determining types of files for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

11K starsJul 18, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add horsicq/Detect-It-Easy
#12

Hadolint

Similarity 116Trust 84Excellent 100

Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

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

Checkov

Similarity 116Trust 88Excellent 99

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
#14

Gosec

Similarity 116Trust 87Excellent 99

Go security checker

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

Syft

Similarity 116Trust 84Excellent 99

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

9.1K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/syft
#16

ImHex

Similarity 111Trust 91Excellent 100

๐Ÿ” A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

54K starsJul 27, 2026 pushdevelopmentC++Static Analysis
$ npx skills add WerWolv/ImHex

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