Alternatives

Gosec alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Gosec

Go security checker

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#1

Revive

Similarity 148Trust 100Excellent 100

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

5.5K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add mgechev/revive
#2

Kubesec

Similarity 137Trust 100Excellent 97

Security risk analysis for Kubernetes resources

1.5K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add controlplaneio/kubesec
#3

Zizmor

Similarity 134Trust 100Excellent 100

Static analysis for GitHub Actions

5.5K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add zizmorcore/zizmor
#4

Grype

Similarity 133Trust 100Excellent 100

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

12K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/grype
#5

Syft

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 100

CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems

9.1K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/syft
#6

Go Tools

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 100

Staticcheck - The advanced Go linter

6.8K starsMay 24, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add dominikh/go-tools
#7

Nilaway

Similarity 131Trust 100Excellent 100

Static analysis tool to detect potential nil panics in Go code

3.8K starsMay 28, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add uber-go/nilaway
#8

Kube Linter

Similarity 131Trust 100Excellent 100

KubeLinter is a static analysis tool that checks Kubernetes YAML files and Helm charts to ensure the applications represented in them adhere to best practices.

3.5K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add stackrox/kube-linter
#9

Infer

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

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

16K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add facebook/infer
#10

Phpstan

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

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

14K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpstan
#11

Checkstyle

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 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.

8.9K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add checkstyle/checkstyle
#12

Brakeman

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications

7.2K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentRubyStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add presidentbeef/brakeman
#13

Pylint

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

It's not just a linter that annoys you!

5.7K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pylint-dev/pylint
#14

Phan

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

Phan is a static analyzer for PHP. Phan prefers to avoid false-positives and attempts to prove incorrectness rather than correctness.

5.6K starsMay 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phan/phan
#15

NullAway

Similarity 125Trust 100Excellent 100

A tool to help eliminate NullPointerExceptions (NPEs) in your Java code with low build-time overhead

4.1K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add uber/NullAway
#16

Spotbugs

Similarity 125Trust 100Excellent 100

SpotBugs is FindBugs' successor. A tool for static analysis to look for bugs in Java code.

3.9K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add spotbugs/spotbugs

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When should you switch?

Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Gosec if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.

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