Alternatives

Bandit alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Bandit

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

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#1

Wpscan

Similarity 127Trust 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
#2

Nuclei

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 100

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.

29K starsJun 4, 2026 pushsecurityGoSecurity
$ npx skills add projectdiscovery/nuclei
#3

Zaproxy

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

The ZAP by Checkmarx Core project

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

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
#5

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
#6

Vuls

Similarity 111Trust 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
#7

Kube Score

Similarity 109Trust 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
#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 108Trust 100Excellent 94

Assist penetration testing workflows with agentic reasoning

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

Pylint

Similarity 98Trust 100Excellent 100

It's not just a linter that annoys you!

5.7K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pylint-dev/pylint
#11

Pytype

Similarity 96Trust 100Excellent 91

A static type analyzer for Python code

5.0K starsMar 16, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add google/pytype
#12

Gosec

Similarity 92Trust 100Excellent 100

Go security checker

8.9K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add securego/gosec
#13

Flake8

Similarity 89Trust 100Excellent 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
#14

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
#15

Ruff

Similarity 87Trust 100Excellent 100

An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.

48K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add astral-sh/ruff
#16

Skills

Similarity 85Trust 100Excellent 100

Public repository for Agent Skills

147K starsJun 7, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add anthropics/skills

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