Security findingsarrive already fixed.
IDC 2024 found developers spend only 16% of their time on direct feature development. Security triage, backlog maintenance, and unplanned remediation work are among the primary contributors to the other 84%.
Start freeSource: IDC, "The Business Value of Developer Productivity," 2024.
Security findings that
interrupt your flow.
A SAST finding assigned to your sprint is someone else's problem, landed on you.
Security scanners surface findings into a queue. Someone assigns the highest-severity items to a sprint. That assignment lands on an engineer who didn't introduce the issue, doesn't have context on the code, and now has to context-switch mid-sprint.
IDC, "The Business Value of Developer Productivity," 2024.
42% of your working week is spent on code that already exists.
Stripe's 2018 Developer Coefficient study found 42% of developer working time goes to technical debt maintenance - fixing, refactoring, and working around code that should have been addressed earlier. Security vulnerability debt is the most expensive category.
Stripe, "The Developer Coefficient," 2018.
A failing security gate at PR time is the worst moment to find out.
DORA 2024 found that change failure rate is one of the four key metrics separating elite engineering teams. Security checks that surface findings at PR merge time, after the code is written and the context is cold, produce the highest interruption cost.
DORA, Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2024.
Security findings that
arrive already fixed.
Security findings that don't land on your sprint
- Hyrax executes fixes autonomously - findings don't enter the sprint backlog, they enter Hyrax's execution queue
- You review and approve PRs Hyrax opens, same as any other PR - you don't generate the fix
- Context is provided: every Hyrax PR includes the finding, the fix rationale, and the test results
Debt that decreases instead of accumulating
- Hyrax's Scan and Fix workflows work through the backlog continuously between sprints
- Every fix matches the conventions Discovery learned from your codebase - so recurrences get caught before they reach you
- Every fix Hyrax executes ships as a verified PR with the [Hyrax] prefix
Findings at introduction, not at PR
- Hyrax scans continuously - not only when a PR opens
- Issues introduced in the current branch surface before the PR is open, not after
- The 13-step verification runs pre-merge: baseline tests written, fix validated, PR opened only if tests pass
Before and after Hyrax,
at the IC level.
| Workflow Moment | Without Hyrax | With Hyrax |
|---|---|---|
| Security finding introduced | Finding queues in dashboard; arrives on your sprint in 2-3 weeks | Hyrax surfaces and executes the fix within hours |
| Sprint planning | Unresolved security items added to board alongside feature work | Security backlog is handled outside sprint |
| PR review | You receive security finding comments to address before merge | You review Hyrax's PRs the same way you review any teammate's PR |
| CI failure on security gate | Context-switch back to code you wrote last week | Fix is already merged before the gate would have fired |
| Debt backlog | Accumulates between sprint cycles; grows faster than it closes | Continuous execution - backlog decreases without sprint allocation |
Common questions
from software engineers.
Hyrax runs a 13-step verification before any PR opens: baseline tests are written first, the fix is applied, and the test suite must pass before the PR is created. Every PR includes the finding, the fix diff, and the test results.
No - the review replaces work, it doesn't stack on top of it. Each Hyrax PR is a narrow, single-issue change with the finding, fix diff, and passing tests attached, so there's no context to reconstruct. On Team plans, the PR Review workflow reviews every PR and blocks merge on must-fix findings first, so what reaches a human is already verified. The alternative - triaging the finding, writing the fix, and reviewing it by hand - is the work that goes away.
The 13-step verification is designed to prevent this. Baseline tests fail before the PR opens if the fix breaks expected behavior. You still have final approval before anything merges - Hyrax cannot self-merge.
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