Different jobs, same pull request.
Bugbot answers whether the code is correct. heygrc answers whether the change touched a control your company must meet. Keep both. This page is the map, not a switch pitch.
Same pull request, two questions.
| Cursor Bugbot | heygrc | |
|---|---|---|
| Question it is built to answer | Is this code correct? | Does this change touch a compliance control? |
| Stated job | Flags likely bugs and code-quality problems on the PR | Cites the framework clause a change touches |
| Where it runs | Cursor workflow and the GitHub pull request | GitHub App on the pull request |
| Merge default | Per Cursor's own product | Neutral check. Informs, does not block unless you require it |
| Not a replacement for | A compliance reading of the diff | A bug or quality reviewer |
Bugbot and heygrc both leave comments on your pull requests, which is where the resemblance ends. Bugbot is built to answer one question well: is this code correct? heygrc is built to answer a different one: does this change touch a compliance control your company has to meet? Those are not the same question, and a change can pass one cleanly while failing the other.
People sometimes look for a Bugbot for compliance: a reviewer that does for your frameworks what a bug reviewer does for bugs. That is the role heygrc plays, and the honest framing is not replacement but addition. You keep Bugbot for correctness and run heygrc alongside it for the compliance reading, cited to the exact control. Same pull request, two different questions, both answered.
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
Bugbot
Cursor Bugbot is an AI code reviewer. It reviews each pull request and flags likely bugs and code-quality problems before they merge.
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.
Bug-free code that still breaks a GDPR duty.
This change adds a log line to help debug checkout. It is correct: it compiles, it runs, nothing about it breaks. It also writes the customer's email and address into the application logs, which is more personal data than the purpose needs.
export async function onCheckout(req: CheckoutRequest) { logger.info("checkout received", { body: req }) const order = await createOrder(req) return order}Logging the full request body puts the customer email and address into application logs. There is no bug here, the code is correct, but it is a data-minimisation issue under GDPR Art. 5(1)(c). heygrc is built to catch exactly this: a change that is fine as code but touches a compliance duty.
Keep Bugbot. Add the compliance layer.
This is not a question of which tool wins. Bugbot 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.
heygrc and Bugbot, common questions.
Is heygrc an alternative to Bugbot?
Not exactly. Bugbot 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 Bugbot together?
Yes. They look at different kinds of risk on the same diff: Bugbot 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.
How heygrc fits with other tools.
See also: Cursor Bugbot alternatives.
Shorter version: heyGRC alongside Cursor Bugbot, at a glance.