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An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
48K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
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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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It's not just a linter that annoys you!
5.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pylint-dev/pylint#3
🔥 ~6x faster, stricter, configurable, extensible, and beautiful drop-in replacement for golint
5.5K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add mgechev/revive#4
SpotBugs is FindBugs' successor. A tool for static analysis to look for bugs in Java code.
3.9K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add spotbugs/spotbugs#5
An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.
5.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pmd/pmd#6
Static Analyzer for Solidity and Vyper
6.3K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add crytic/slither#7
ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts
40K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add koalaman/shellcheck#8
Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code.
16K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add semgrep/semgrep#9
A static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C
16K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add facebook/infer#10
A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.
20K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint#11
PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!
14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpstan#12
⚡A CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting. Written in Rust
15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add ast-grep/ast-grep#13
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.
8.9K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add checkstyle/checkstyle#14
Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell
12K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add hadolint/hadolint#15
Go security checker
8.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add securego/gosec#16
Performant type-checking for python.
7.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
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