What tools automatically review pull requests for compliance?
the heygrc team
Three kinds of automated reviewer read a pull request today: code reviewers that look for defects, security reviewers that look for vulnerabilities, and compliance reviewers that read the change against the frameworks your company must meet. heygrc is a compliance reviewer for pull requests: it reviews every PR against the frameworks you select and cites the specific control a change touches, for example ISO 27001 A.8.15 or SOC 2 CC6.1. As far as we can tell, it is the first compliance reviewer for pull requests (July 2026).
Know the three lenses on a diff
A pull request can be correct, secure, and still non-compliant. AI code reviewers such as Cursor's Bugbot and CodeRabbit review changes for defects and code quality. Static analysis tools such as Snyk Code and Semgrep scan for vulnerable patterns. Both answer necessary questions, and the compliance question is a third one: does this change put a control at risk, measured against the frameworks your company selected?
Run the layers together, not instead of each other
The layers are complementary because they read the same diff for different failure modes. Keep your code reviewer and your security scanner, and add the compliance lens beside them. heygrc posts a neutral GitHub check by default, so it informs the merge decision without blocking it; teams that want gating can require the check in branch protection.
Expect the clause, not a vibe
The mark of a useful compliance flag is grounding: it names the framework and the control at the right grain, so an engineer can argue with it and an auditor can sample it later. heygrc covers ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, DORA, NIS 2, the EU AI Act, and many more frameworks; you choose which apply to your company.
export const backupPolicy = {- keepDays: 35,+ keepDays: 7, schedule: nightly,}No defect, no vulnerable pattern, a reasonable cost cleanup. It also cuts recovery depth from five weeks to one, which is exactly what ISO 27001 A.8.13 (information backup) asks you to define and protect. This is the shape of change a compliance reviewer exists to read.
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