Alternatives

Flake8 alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Flake8

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.

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#1

Ruff

Similarity 151Trust 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
#2

Shellcheck

Similarity 118Trust 85Excellent 100

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

40K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add koalaman/shellcheck
#3

SwiftLint

Similarity 118Trust 88Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

20K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint
#4

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
#5

Infer

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

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

16K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add facebook/infer
#6

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
#7

Ast Grep

Similarity 117Trust 86Excellent 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
#8

Checkstyle

Similarity 116Trust 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
#9

Hadolint

Similarity 116Trust 84Excellent 100

Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

12K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add hadolint/hadolint
#10

Gosec

Similarity 116Trust 87Excellent 100

Go security checker

8.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add securego/gosec
#11

Pyre Check

Similarity 116Trust 87Excellent 100

Performant type-checking for python.

7.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add facebook/pyre-check
#12

Mastg

Similarity 115Trust 90Excellent 100

The OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG) is a comprehensive manual for mobile app security testing and reverse engineering. It describes technical processes for verifying the OWASP Mobile Security Weakness Enumeration (MASWE) weaknesses, which are in alignment with the OWASP MASVS.

13K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add OWASP/mastg
#13

Checkov

Similarity 114Trust 88Excellent 100

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

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
#15

Mobile Security Framework MobSF

Similarity 110Trust 88Excellent 100

Mobile Security Framework (MobSF) is an automated, all-in-one mobile application (Android/iOS/Windows) pen-testing, malware analysis and security assessment framework capable of performing static and dynamic analysis.

21K starsMay 19, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF
#16

Bytecode Viewer

Similarity 110Trust 89Excellent 100

A Java 8+ Jar & Android APK Reverse Engineering Suite (Decompiler, Editor, Debugger & More)

16K starsApr 2, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add Konloch/bytecode-viewer

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