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About authentication with a GitHub App - GitHub Docs

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Your GitHub App can authenticate as itself, as an app installation, or on behalf of a user.

Your GitHub App can authenticate as itself, as an app installation, or on behalf of a user. Authentication as a GitHub App To authenticate as itself, your app will use a JSON Web Token (JWT). Your app should authenticate as itself when it needs to generate an installation access token. An installation access token is required to authenticate as an app installation. Your app should also authenticate as itself when it needs to make API requests to manage resources related to the app. For example, when it needs to list the accounts where it is installed. For more information, see…

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