Alternatives

Psalm alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Psalm

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

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#1

Phpmd

Similarity 138Trust 96Excellent 100

PHPMD is a spin-off project of PHP Depend and aims to be a PHP equivalent of the well known Java tool PMD. PHPMD can be seen as an user friendly frontend application for the raw metrics stream measured by PHP Depend.

2.4K starsMay 23, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpmd/phpmd
#2

Phpstan

Similarity 132Trust 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
#3

PHP CS Fixer

Similarity 132Trust 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
#4

PHP Parser

Similarity 132Trust 91Excellent 100

A PHP parser written in PHP

17K starsFeb 26, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add nikic/PHP-Parser
#5

SwiftLint

Similarity 127Trust 92Excellent 100

A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.

20K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentSwiftStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add realm/SwiftLint
#6

Checkstyle

Similarity 126Trust 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
#7

Revive

Similarity 125Trust 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
#8

Pylint

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

It's not just a linter that annoys you!

5.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pylint-dev/pylint
#9

Spotbugs

Similarity 124Trust 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
#10

Kube Linter

Similarity 124Trust 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
#11

Shellcheck

Similarity 120Trust 93Excellent 100

ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

40K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add koalaman/shellcheck
#12

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
#13

Grype

Similarity 118Trust 94Excellent 100

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

12K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/grype
#14

Detect It Easy

Similarity 118Trust 95Excellent 100

Program for determining types of files for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

11K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add horsicq/Detect-It-Easy
#15

Sonarqube

Similarity 118Trust 95Excellent 100

Continuous Inspection

11K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add SonarSource/sonarqube
#16

Checkov

Similarity 118Trust 96Excellent 100

Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.

8.8K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add bridgecrewio/checkov

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