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Semgrep Rules alternatives for AI agents.

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Semgrep Rules

Semgrep Community Edition rules, maintained by Semgrep and the community. Free to use under the Semgrep Rules License.

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#1

Pyre Check

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

Performant type-checking for python.

7.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add facebook/pyre-check
#2

Gosec

Similarity 117Trust 94Excellent 100

Go security checker

8.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add securego/gosec
#3

Semgrep Rules

Similarity 117Trust 87Excellent 86

A collection of my Semgrep rules to facilitate vulnerability research.

827 starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentCStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add 0xdea/semgrep-rules
#4

Zizmor

Similarity 117Trust 94Excellent 100

Static analysis for GitHub Actions

5.6K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add zizmorcore/zizmor
#5

Brakeman

Similarity 116Trust 90Excellent 100

A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications

7.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentRubyStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add presidentbeef/brakeman
#6

ApplicationInspector

Similarity 116Trust 92Excellent 98

A source code analyzer built for surfacing features of interest and other characteristics to answer the question 'What's in the code?' quickly using static analysis with a json based rules engine. Ideal for scanning components before use or detecting feature level changes.

4.4K starsFeb 17, 2026 pushdevelopmentC#Static Analysis
$ npx skills add microsoft/ApplicationInspector
#7

Find Sec Bugs

Similarity 115Trust 94Excellent 99

The SpotBugs plugin for security audits of Java web applications and Android applications. (Also work with Kotlin, Groovy and Scala projects)

2.4K starsMar 26, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add find-sec-bugs/find-sec-bugs
#8

Ikos

Similarity 115Trust 89Excellent 100

Static analyzer for C/C++ based on the theory of Abstract Interpretation.

3.2K starsMay 31, 2026 pushdevelopmentC++Static Analysis
$ npx skills add NASA-SW-VnV/ikos
#9

Tai E

Similarity 115Trust 93Excellent 100

An easy-to-learn/use static analysis framework for Java and Android

1.8K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pascal-lab/Tai-e
#10

Vet

Similarity 113Trust 92Excellent 100

Protect against malicious open source packages 🤖

1.1K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add safedep/vet
#11

Kubesec

Similarity 113Trust 90Excellent 97

Security risk analysis for Kubernetes resources

1.5K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add controlplaneio/kubesec
#12

OpenSCA Cli

Similarity 113Trust 90Excellent 99

OpenSCA is an open source software supply chain security solution that supports the detection of open source dependencies, vulnerabilities and license compliance with a widely noticed accuracy by the community.

1.1K starsMay 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add XmirrorSecurity/OpenSCA-cli
#13

ImHex

Similarity 112Trust 98Excellent 100

🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

54K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentC++Static Analysis
$ npx skills add WerWolv/ImHex
#14

Phasar

Similarity 112Trust 89Excellent 96

A LLVM-based static analysis framework.

1.0K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentC++Static Analysis
$ npx skills add secure-software-engineering/phasar
#15

Ruff

Similarity 112Trust 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
#16

Shellcheck

Similarity 111Trust 92Excellent 100

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

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

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