Alternatives

Nuclei alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Nuclei

Nuclei is a fast, customizable vulnerability scanner powered by the global security community and built on a simple YAML-based DSL, enabling collaboration to tackle trending vulnerabilities on the internet. It helps you find vulnerabilities in your applications, APIs, networks, DNS, and cloud configurations.

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Zaproxy

Similarity 135Trust 100Excellent 100

The ZAP by Checkmarx Core project

15K starsJun 4, 2026 pushsecurityJavaSecurity
$ npx skills add zaproxy/zaproxy
#2

Kube Score

Similarity 123Trust 100Excellent 100

Kubernetes object analysis with recommendations for improved reliability and security. kube-score actively prevents downtime and bugs in your Kubernetes YAML and Charts. Static code analysis for Kubernetes.

3.1K starsMay 20, 2026 pushsecurityGoSecurity
$ npx skills add zegl/kube-score
#3

Wpscan

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

WPScan WordPress security scanner. Written for security professionals and blog maintainers to test the security of their WordPress websites. Contact us via contact@wpscan.com

9.6K starsJun 4, 2026 pushsecurityRubySecurity
$ npx skills add wpscanteam/wpscan
#4

Bandit

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.

8.1K starsMay 25, 2026 pushsecurityPythonSecurity
$ npx skills add PyCQA/bandit
#5

Vuls

Similarity 117Trust 100Excellent 100

Agent-less vulnerability scanner for Linux, FreeBSD, Container, WordPress, Programming language libraries, Network devices

12K starsJun 5, 2026 pushsecurityGoSecurity
$ npx skills add future-architect/vuls
#6

Linux Malware Detect

Similarity 115Trust 100Excellent 100

Multi-engine Linux malware scanner with five detection stages (MD5, HEX pattern, YARA, ClamAV, statistical), real-time inotify monitoring, quarantine, and multi-channel alerting

1.4K starsMay 24, 2026 pushsecurityShellSecurity
$ npx skills add rfxn/linux-malware-detect
#7

Lynis

Similarity 111Trust 100Excellent 100

Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional.

16K starsMay 11, 2026 pushsecurityShellSecurity
$ npx skills add CISOfy/lynis
#8

Sn0int

Similarity 108Trust 100Excellent 100

Semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager

2.4K starsMay 15, 2026 pushsecurityRustSecurity
$ npx skills add kpcyrd/sn0int
#9

PentestGPT

Similarity 102Trust 100Excellent 94

Assist penetration testing workflows with agentic reasoning

14K starsFeb 23, 2026 pushsecurityPythonSecurity
$ npx skills add GreyDGL/PentestGPT
#10

Skills

Similarity 88Trust 100Excellent 100

A marketplace for AI-assisted security analysis and auditing plugins.

5.6K starsJun 5, 2026 pushsecurityClaude Code
$ npx skills add trailofbits/skills
#11

Kubesec

Similarity 79Trust 100Excellent 97

Security risk analysis for Kubernetes resources

1.5K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add controlplaneio/kubesec
#12

Katana

Similarity 76Trust 100Excellent 100

A next-generation crawling and spidering framework.

17K starsJun 8, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add projectdiscovery/katana
#13

Grype

Similarity 75Trust 100Excellent 100

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

12K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/grype
#14

Syft

Similarity 74Trust 100Excellent 100

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

9.1K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/syft
#15

Gosec

Similarity 74Trust 100Excellent 100

Go security checker

8.9K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add securego/gosec
#16

Revive

Similarity 74Trust 100Excellent 100

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

5.5K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add mgechev/revive

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