heygrc and Bito

Different jobs, same pull request.

Bito reviews PRs for its stated job. Bito is an AI code reviewer that flags bugs, code smells, and security issues and aggregates other linters on a pull request. heygrc reviews the same PR for compliance against your frameworks. Use both.

Same pull request, two jobs.

	Bito	heygrc
Job	Bito is an AI code reviewer that flags bugs, code smells, and security issues and aggregates other linters on a pull request.	Reviews the same PR for compliance against your frameworks
Where it sits	Bito is an AI code reviewer that flags bugs, code smells, and security issues and aggregates other linters on a pull request.	A comment on the pull request
What it cites	Bito is an AI code reviewer that flags bugs, code smells, and security issues and aggregates other linters on a pull request.	The exact framework clause the change touches
Blocks merges?	Bito is an AI code reviewer that flags bugs, code smells, and security issues and aggregates other linters on a pull request.	Never
Complementary?	Yes	Yes

Bito reviews bugs, code smells, and security on a pull request. heygrc reads the change for the compliance control it touches. A change can be perfectly functional and still expose more of the system than production should.

Tristan RothFounder of heygrc and ISMS Copilot

Founder of Better ISMS
Built ISMS Copilot, the GRC assistant for ISO 27001 and neighboring frameworks
Maps framework controls to pull-request diffs in heygrc

Install on GitHub by ISMS Copilot

Bito

Bito is an AI code reviewer that flags bugs, code smells, and security issues and aggregates other linters on a pull request.

heygrc

heygrc reviews each pull request against the compliance frameworks your company must meet (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, and more) and cites the specific control a change touches. It is built for compliance, not code quality.

Where they do not overlap

Working code that enables a debug endpoint in production.

This change mounts a debug introspection route without the dev-only guard. The route works, and it is handy in production.

server/routes.ts+1 −1

app.use("/health", health)-  if (isDev) app.use("/debug", debugRouter)+  app.use("/debug", debugRouter)app.use("/api", api)

heygrcNIST 800-53 CM-7

Exposing a debug endpoint to production adds functionality that should not be enabled, which is least functionality under NIST 800-53 CM-7. heygrc is built to read a change like this against the control it touches.

Use them together

Keep Bito. Add the compliance layer.

This is not a question of which tool wins. Bito catches the bugs and quality problems heygrc never looks for, and heygrc catches the compliance issues a code review is not built to see. Running both means a pull request is checked for whether the code is good and for whether the change is compliant, two different kinds of risk, on the same diff.

heygrc does not replace your code review, and it does not certify you. It reviews changes against your frameworks and cites the control, so the compliance question is answered where the change is made.

Install on GitHub ← Where it fits

Questions

heygrc and Bito, common questions.

Is heygrc an alternative to Bito?

Not exactly. Bito reviews your code; heygrc reviews each change for compliance against the frameworks your company must meet (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, and more) and cites the specific control it touches. They answer different questions about the same pull request, so heygrc is designed to run alongside it, not replace it.

Can I use heygrc and Bito together?

Yes. They look at different kinds of risk on the same diff: Bito on the code, heygrc on the compliance control a change touches. heygrc does not replace your code review.

What does heygrc check on a pull request?

heygrc reviews each pull request against the frameworks your company selected and cites the specific control a change touches, so the compliance question is answered in code review. heygrc does not certify you.