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Soot alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Soot

Soot - A Java optimization framework

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#1

Checkstyle

Similarity 132Trust 97Excellent 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 16, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add checkstyle/checkstyle
#2

Sonarqube

Similarity 132Trust 95Excellent 100

Continuous Inspection

11K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add SonarSource/sonarqube
#3

Recaf

Similarity 131Trust 94Excellent 100

The modern Java bytecode editor

7.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add Col-E/Recaf
#4

Error Prone

Similarity 131Trust 94Excellent 100

Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors

7.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add google/error-prone
#5

NullAway

Similarity 130Trust 96Excellent 100

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

4.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add uber/NullAway
#6

Spotbugs

Similarity 130Trust 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
#7

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
#8

Bytecode Viewer

Similarity 125Trust 96Excellent 100

A Java 8+ Jar & Android APK Reverse Engineering Suite (Decompiler, Editor, Debugger & More)

16K starsApr 2, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add Konloch/bytecode-viewer
#9

Pmd

Similarity 122Trust 90Excellent 100

An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.

5.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pmd/pmd
#10

Shellcheck

Similarity 120Trust 93Excellent 100

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

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

Semgrep

Similarity 119Trust 98Excellent 100

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

16K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add semgrep/semgrep
#12

SwiftLint

Similarity 119Trust 92Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

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

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
#14

PHP CS Fixer

Similarity 118Trust 95Excellent 100

A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues

14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer
#15

PHP Parser

Similarity 118Trust 91Excellent 100

A PHP parser written in PHP

17K starsFeb 26, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add nikic/PHP-Parser
#16

Hadolint

Similarity 118Trust 91Excellent 100

Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

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

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