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Semgrep alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Semgrep

Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code.

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#1

Infer

Similarity 133Trust 100Excellent 100

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

16K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add facebook/infer
#2

Pyre Check

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

Performant type-checking for python.

7.2K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add facebook/pyre-check
#3

Kubesec

Similarity 123Trust 100Excellent 97

Security risk analysis for Kubernetes resources

1.5K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add controlplaneio/kubesec
#4

Ruff

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 100

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

48K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add astral-sh/ruff
#5

Grype

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

12K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/grype
#6

Clair

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers

11K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add quay/clair
#7

Sonarqube

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

Continuous Inspection

11K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add SonarSource/sonarqube
#8

Syft

Similarity 118Trust 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
#9

Checkstyle

Similarity 118Trust 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
#10

Gosec

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

Go security checker

8.9K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add securego/gosec
#11

Brakeman

Similarity 118Trust 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
#12

Recaf

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

The modern Java bytecode editor

7.2K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add Col-E/Recaf
#13

Error Prone

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors

7.2K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add google/error-prone
#14

Go Tools

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

Staticcheck - The advanced Go linter

6.8K starsMay 24, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add dominikh/go-tools
#15

Dependency Cruiser

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

Validate and visualize dependencies. Your rules. JavaScript, TypeScript, CoffeeScript. ES6, CommonJS, AMD.

6.7K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add sverweij/dependency-cruiser
#16

Cppcheck

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

static analysis of C/C++ code

6.6K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentC++Static Analysis
$ npx skills add cppcheck-opensource/cppcheck

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