heygrc and Codacy

Different jobs, same pull request.

Codacy reviews PRs for its stated job. Codacy is a code-quality and security platform that automates reviews, tracks quality metrics, and flags issues on pull requests. heygrc reviews the same PR for compliance against your frameworks. Use both.

Same pull request, two jobs.

	Codacy	heygrc
Job	Codacy is a code-quality and security platform that automates reviews, tracks quality metrics, and flags issues on pull requests.	Reviews the same PR for compliance against your frameworks
Where it sits	Codacy is a code-quality and security platform that automates reviews, tracks quality metrics, and flags issues on pull requests.	A comment on the pull request
What it cites	Codacy is a code-quality and security platform that automates reviews, tracks quality metrics, and flags issues on pull requests.	The exact framework clause the change touches
Blocks merges?	Codacy is a code-quality and security platform that automates reviews, tracks quality metrics, and flags issues on pull requests.	Never
Complementary?	Yes	Yes

Codacy automates quality and security checks on every change. heygrc adds the compliance layer, the control a change touches in your frameworks. A change can be a clean config edit and still loosen an access rule you are measured on.

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

Codacy

Codacy is a code-quality and security platform that automates reviews, tracks quality metrics, and flags issues on pull requests.

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

A config edit that weakens password rules.

This change lowers the password minimum and disables lockout. It is a valid config change.

config/auth.ts+2 −2

export const passwordPolicy = {-  minLength: 12,-  lockoutAfter: 5,+  minLength: 6,+  lockoutAfter: 0,}

heygrcPCI DSS Requirement 8

Shortening passwords and disabling lockout weakens how access is authenticated, which PCI DSS Requirement 8 governs. heygrc is built to read a settings change like this against the control behind it.

Use them together

Keep Codacy. Add the compliance layer.

This is not a question of which tool wins. Codacy 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 Codacy, common questions.

Is heygrc an alternative to Codacy?

Not exactly. Codacy 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 Codacy together?

Yes. They look at different kinds of risk on the same diff: Codacy 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.