Which GRC platforms integrate directly into GitHub pull requests?
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Most GRC and compliance-automation platforms integrate with GitHub at the account and repository level: they read settings such as branch protection and required reviews as evidence that your change-management control operates. That integration reads configuration, not code. Reviewing the pull request itself, reading the changed lines and naming the control they put at risk, is a different job. heygrc does that job: a GitHub App that reviews every pull request against your selected frameworks and posts the finding as a check on the PR.
Distinguish the two integration shapes
Evidence-level integrations answer the auditor's process questions: is there branch protection, are reviews required, did CI run. Diff-level review answers a different question: what did this specific change do to the controls that live in code? Both are useful. They are not substitutes, because they read different things.
Use evidence-level integrations for process controls
Change management (ISO 27001 A.8.32, SOC 2 CC8.1) is largely provable from settings and metadata: protected branches, review requirements, deployment approvals. If your GRC platform already collects that from GitHub, keep it; it is the cheapest evidence you have.
Add diff-level review for the controls that live in code
Logging, access control, cryptography, retention, and personal-data handling drift one commit at a time, and no repository setting can see a deleted log line or a widened permission. Only something that reads the diff can. That reading is what a compliance reviewer for pull requests adds on top of your GRC platform, not in place of it.
export const reportingToken = createToken({ scope: "read:reports",- expiresAt: days(90),+ expiresAt: null,})Branch protection stays green, reviews were required, CI passed: every process control operated, and a credential that never expires still shipped. The evidence layer cannot read this line; a diff-level compliance review is the layer that can.
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