Alternatives

Nilaway alternatives for AI agents.

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Nilaway

Static analysis tool to detect potential nil panics in Go code

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#1

Gosec

Similarity 130Trust 87Excellent 100

Go security checker

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

Grype

Similarity 123Trust 88Excellent 100

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

13K starsJul 17, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/grype
#3

Clair

Similarity 123Trust 88Excellent 100

Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers

11K starsJul 17, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add quay/clair
#4

Syft

Similarity 122Trust 84Excellent 100

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

9.1K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/syft
#5

Shellcheck

Similarity 118Trust 85Excellent 100

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

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

SwiftLint

Similarity 118Trust 88Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

20K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint
#7

Semgrep

Similarity 118Trust 90Excellent 100

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

16K starsJun 22, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add semgrep/semgrep
#8

Infer

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

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

16K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add facebook/infer
#9

Phpstan

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!

14K starsJun 24, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpstan
#10

PHP CS Fixer

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues

14K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer
#11

Sonarqube

Similarity 117Trust 90Excellent 100

Continuous Inspection

11K starsJul 17, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add SonarSource/sonarqube
#12

Checkstyle

Similarity 116Trust 88Excellent 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.

9.0K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add checkstyle/checkstyle
#13

Hadolint

Similarity 116Trust 84Excellent 100

Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

12K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add hadolint/hadolint
#14

Reviewdog

Similarity 116Trust 85Excellent 100

๐Ÿถ Automated code review tool integrated with any code analysis tools regardless of programming language

9.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoCode Review
$ npx skills add reviewdog/reviewdog
#15

Error Prone

Similarity 116Trust 87Excellent 100

Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors

7.2K starsJun 25, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add google/error-prone
#16

ImHex

Similarity 111Trust 91Excellent 100

๐Ÿ” A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

54K starsJul 27, 2026 pushdevelopmentC++Static Analysis
$ npx skills add WerWolv/ImHex

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