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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#1

Zaproxy

Similarity 133Trust 87Excellent 100

The ZAP by Checkmarx Core project

15K starsJun 11, 2026 pushsecurityJavaSecurity
$ npx skills add zaproxy/zaproxy
#2

Wpscan

Similarity 116Trust 86Excellent 97

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

9.7K starsJul 23, 2026 pushsecurityRubySecurity
$ npx skills add wpscanteam/wpscan
#3

Vuls

Similarity 115Trust 87Excellent 100

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

12K starsJun 12, 2026 pushsecurityGoSecurity
$ npx skills add future-architect/vuls
#4

Osv Scanner

Similarity 115Trust 88Excellent 100

Vulnerability scanner written in Go which uses the data provided by https://osv.dev

11K starsJun 20, 2026 pushsecurityGoSecurity
$ npx skills add google/osv-scanner
#5

Hint

Similarity 114Trust 86Excellent 98

๐Ÿ’ก A hinting engine for the web

3.7K starsJul 21, 2026 pushsecurityTypeScriptSecurity
$ npx skills add webhintio/hint
#6

Infisical

Similarity 101Trust 79Excellent 100

Infisical is the open-source platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management.

27K starsJun 20, 2026 pushsecurityTypeScriptSecurity
$ npx skills add Infisical/infisical
#7

Opa

Similarity 101Trust 87Excellent 100

Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.

12K starsJun 12, 2026 pushsecurityGoCompliance
$ npx skills add open-policy-agent/opa
#8

Claude Bug Bounty

Similarity 98Trust 83Excellent 100

AI-powered bug bounty hunting from your terminal - recon, 20 vuln classes, autonomous hunting, and report generation. All inside Claude Code.

3.5K starsJun 18, 2026 pushsecurityPythonSecurity
$ npx skills add shuvonsec/claude-bug-bounty
#9

Maigret

Similarity 96Trust 83Excellent 100

๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites

33K starsJun 11, 2026 pushsecurityPythonOSINT
$ npx skills add soxoj/maigret
#10

Shadowbroker

Similarity 95Trust 91Excellent 100

Open-source intelligence for the global theater. Track everything from the corporate/private jets of the wealthy, and spy satellites, to seismic events in one unified interface. Hook an AI agent up to have it parse through data and find previously unseen correlations. The knowledge is available to all but rarely aggregated in the open, until now.

11K starsOct 10, 2026 pushsecurityPythonOSINT
$ npx skills add BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker
#11

Wazuh

Similarity 95Trust 85Excellent 100

Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.

16K starsJul 24, 2026 pushsecurityC++Compliance
$ npx skills add wazuh/wazuh
#12

Bbot

Similarity 93Trust 82Excellent 99

The recursive internet scanner for hackers. ๐Ÿงก

9.9K starsJun 12, 2026 pushsecurityPythonOSINT
$ npx skills add blacklanternsecurity/bbot
#13

Osquery

Similarity 75Trust 82Excellent 100

SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.

23K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add osquery/osquery
#14

Trivy

Similarity 75Trust 87Excellent 100

Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

38K starsSep 11, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add aquasecurity/trivy
#15

Cockroach

Similarity 74Trust 84Excellent 100

CockroachDB โ€” the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add cockroachdb/cockroach
#16

Jaeger

Similarity 74Trust 87Excellent 100

CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoObservability
$ npx skills add jaegertracing/jaeger

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When should you switch?

Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Nuclei if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.

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