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Nilaway alternatives for AI agents.

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Static analysis tool to detect potential nil panics in Go code

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#1

Gosec

Similarity 131Trust 94Excellent 100

Go security checker

8.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add securego/gosec
#2

Revive

Similarity 131Trust 97Excellent 100

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

5.5K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add mgechev/revive
#3

Go Tools

Similarity 131Trust 94Excellent 100

Staticcheck - The advanced Go linter

6.8K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add dominikh/go-tools
#4

Kube Linter

Similarity 130Trust 96Excellent 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 10, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add stackrox/kube-linter
#5

Grype

Similarity 124Trust 94Excellent 100

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

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

Clair

Similarity 124Trust 94Excellent 100

Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers

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

Syft

Similarity 123Trust 93Excellent 100

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

9.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/syft
#8

Tfsec

Similarity 123Trust 92Excellent 100

Tfsec is now part of Trivy

7.0K starsMar 25, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add aquasecurity/tfsec
#9

Shellcheck

Similarity 120Trust 93Excellent 100

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

40K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add koalaman/shellcheck
#10

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
#11

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
#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

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

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