Different jobs, same pull request.
CodeRabbit and heygrc both review pull requests, but they are looking for different things. CodeRabbit reviews the code: its quality, its correctness, its style. heygrc reviews the change against the compliance frameworks your company must meet and cites the specific control it touches. A change can be well-written, well-reviewed code and still weaken a control you will be audited on.
CodeRabbit
CodeRabbit is an AI code review tool. It reviews pull requests for bugs, code quality, and best practices, and summarizes what changed.
heygrc
heygrc reviews each pull request against the compliance frameworks your company must meet (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, and more) and cites the specific control a change touches. It is built for compliance, not code quality.
Good code that still weakens an access control.
This change tidies a route by removing a role check that looks redundant next to the auth middleware. It is clean, readable code, nothing about its quality stands out. It also means any signed-in user can now delete any project.
- router.delete("/projects/:id", requireRole("admin"),- loadProject, deleteProject)+ router.delete("/projects/:id", loadProject, deleteProject)The code is clean, so a review focused on quality may not flag it. But removing the role check means access is no longer restricted to who should have it, which is SOC 2 CC6.1 (logical access). heygrc is built to read the change against your frameworks and cite the control, the layer a code review is not looking at.
Keep CodeRabbit. Add the compliance layer.
This is not a question of which tool wins. CodeRabbit 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 is in early access.