Alternatives

Astroid alternatives for AI agents.

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

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A common base representation of python source code for pylint and other projects

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#1

Pylint

Similarity 155Trust 94Excellent 100

It's not just a linter that annoys you!

5.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pylint-dev/pylint
#2

Pytype

Similarity 136Trust 87Excellent 93

A static type analyzer for Python code

5.0K starsMar 16, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add google/pytype
#3

PHP Parser

Similarity 134Trust 92Excellent 100

A PHP parser written in PHP

17K starsFeb 26, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add nikic/PHP-Parser
#4

Checkstyle

Similarity 134Trust 95Excellent 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
#5

Revive

Similarity 133Trust 96Excellent 100

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

5.5K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add mgechev/revive
#6

Spotbugs

Similarity 132Trust 95Excellent 100

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
#7

Slither

Similarity 131Trust 94Excellent 100

Static Analyzer for Solidity and Vyper

6.3K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add crytic/slither
#8

Flake8

Similarity 129Trust 91Excellent 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
#9

Ruff

Similarity 128Trust 95Excellent 100

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

48K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add astral-sh/ruff
#10

CrossHair

Similarity 127Trust 91Excellent 97

An analysis tool for Python that blurs the line between testing and type systems.

1.3K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pschanely/CrossHair
#11

SwiftLint

Similarity 127Trust 93Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

20K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint
#12

Infer

Similarity 127Trust 95Excellent 100

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

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

Phpstan

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!

14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpstan
#14

Gosec

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

Go security checker

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

Psalm

Similarity 125Trust 96Excellent 100

A PHP static analysis tool for finding errors and security vulnerabilities in PHP applications

5.9K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add vimeo/psalm
#16

Ts Morph

Similarity 124Trust 92Excellent 100

TypeScript Compiler API wrapper for static analysis and programmatic code changes.

6.1K starsApr 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentTypeScriptStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add dsherret/ts-morph

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