heygrc and Ellipsis

Different jobs, same pull request.

Ellipsis reviews changes and can open follow-up fixes, all aimed at code that works. heygrc asks whether the change holds up against your resilience and compliance obligations. A change can be a reasonable optimization and still weaken a control you are required to keep.

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Ellipsis

Ellipsis is an AI reviewer that comments on pull requests and can open follow-up changes to fix the issues it finds.

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.

Where they do not overlap

An optimization that removes a required backup.

This change disables a nightly backup job to cut cost. The application runs exactly as before.

jobs/schedule.ts+0 −1

scheduler.register([  hourlyMetrics,-  nightlyDatabaseBackup,  weeklyReport,])

heygrcDORA Art. 12

Removing the nightly backup undercuts the backup and restoration duty in DORA Art. 12. heygrc is built to read a change like this against your frameworks and cite the control it removes.

Use them together

Keep Ellipsis. Add the compliance layer.

This is not a question of which tool wins. Ellipsis 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.

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Questions

heygrc and Ellipsis, common questions.

Is heygrc an alternative to Ellipsis?

Not exactly. Ellipsis reviews your code; heygrc reviews each change for compliance against the frameworks your company must meet (ISO 27001, SOC 2, 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 Ellipsis together?

Yes. They look at different kinds of risk on the same diff: Ellipsis 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 and is in early access.