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Qlty alternatives for AI agents.

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Qlty

💎 Code quality CLI for universal linting, auto-formatting, security scanning, and maintainability

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#1

Ruff

Similarity 134Trust 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
#2

Zizmor

Similarity 131Trust 94Excellent 100

Static analysis for GitHub Actions

5.6K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add zizmorcore/zizmor
#3

Mago

Similarity 130Trust 96Excellent 100

Mago is a toolchain for PHP that aims to provide a set of tools to help developers write better code.

3.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add carthage-software/mago
#4

Flowistry

Similarity 129Trust 93Excellent 100

Flowistry is an IDE plugin for Rust that helps you focus on relevant code.

3.1K starsMay 22, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add willcrichton/flowistry
#5

Shellcheck

Similarity 128Trust 93Excellent 100

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

40K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add koalaman/shellcheck
#6

SwiftLint

Similarity 127Trust 92Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

20K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint
#7

Hadolint

Similarity 126Trust 91Excellent 100

Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

12K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add hadolint/hadolint
#8

Revive

Similarity 125Trust 97Excellent 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
#9

Credo

Similarity 125Trust 97Excellent 100

A static code analysis tool for the Elixir language with a focus on code consistency and teaching.

5.2K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentElixirStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add rrrene/credo
#10

Go Tools

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

Staticcheck - The advanced Go linter

6.8K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add dominikh/go-tools
#11

Pylint

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

It's not just a linter that annoys you!

5.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pylint-dev/pylint
#12

Spotbugs

Similarity 124Trust 96Excellent 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
#13

Ast Grep

Similarity 124Trust 93Excellent 100

⚡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
#14

Reek

Similarity 124Trust 93Excellent 100

Code smell detector for Ruby

4.1K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentRubyStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add troessner/reek
#15

Infer

Similarity 119Trust 95Excellent 100

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

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

Phpstan

Similarity 118Trust 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

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