Guide agents through selecting, running, and triaging static analysis tools for C/C++ — clang-tidy, cppcheck, and scan-build — including suppression strategies and CI integration.
| Category | Key checks | What it catches |
| bugprone- | use-after-move, integer-division, suspicious-memset-usage | Likely bugs | | modernize- | use-nullptr, use-override, use-auto | C++11/14/17 idioms | | cppcoreguidelines- | avoid-goto, pro-bounds-, no-malloc | C++ Core Guidelines | | performance- | unnecessary-copy-initialization, avoid-endl | Performance regressions |
Static analysis skill for C/C++ codebases. Use when hardening code quality, triaging noisy builds, running clang-tidy, cppcheck, or scan-build, interpreting check categories, suppressing false positives, or integrating static analysis into CI. Activates on queries about clang-tidy checks, cppcheck, scan-build, compile_commands.json, code hardening, or static analysis warnings. Source: mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills.