Alternatives

Reek alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Code smell detector for Ruby

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#1

Rubycritic

Similarity 130Trust 93Excellent 100

A Ruby code quality reporter

3.5K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentRubyStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add whitesmith/rubycritic
#2

Go Tools

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

Staticcheck - The advanced Go linter

6.8K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add dominikh/go-tools
#3

Qlty

Similarity 123Trust 89Excellent 100

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

3.1K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add qltysh/qlty
#4

Brakeman

Similarity 122Trust 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
#5

Shellcheck

Similarity 120Trust 93Excellent 100

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

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

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
#7

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
#8

SwiftLint

Similarity 119Trust 92Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

20K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint
#9

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
#10

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
#11

PHP Parser

Similarity 118Trust 91Excellent 100

A PHP parser written in PHP

17K starsFeb 26, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add nikic/PHP-Parser
#12

Checkstyle

Similarity 118Trust 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
#13

Sonarqube

Similarity 118Trust 95Excellent 100

Continuous Inspection

11K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add SonarSource/sonarqube
#14

Hadolint

Similarity 118Trust 91Excellent 100

Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

12K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add hadolint/hadolint
#15

Gosec

Similarity 117Trust 94Excellent 100

Go security checker

8.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add securego/gosec
#16

Psalm

Similarity 117Trust 97Excellent 100

A PHP static analysis tool for finding errors and security vulnerabilities in PHP applications

5.9K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add vimeo/psalm

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