A recent post detailed the process of debugging GitHub's authentication flow to programmatically manage pull request checks, initially outlining a seven-step method involving creating an app, private key, JWT, and token. Despite this complexity, a more streamlined approach was discovered after consulting with Gregor, a developer of the octokit SDK, which reduced the process to four steps using the @octokit/app package. This simplified method involves creating an app, fetching the installation ID, and creating an octokit instance for the installation, enabling easier interaction with GitHub repositories. The post provides a JavaScript code example demonstrating how to fetch issues from a specified repository using this more efficient approach.