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# Interacting with GitHub
Probot uses [GitHub Apps](https://developer.github.com/apps/). An app is a first-class actor on GitHub, like a user (e.g. [@defunkt](https://github.com/defunkt)) or an organization (e.g. [@github](https://github.com/github)). The app is given access to a repository or repositories by being "installed" on a user or organization account and can perform actions through the API like [commenting on an issue](https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/comments/#create-a-comment) or [creating a status](https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statuses/#create-a-status).
`context.github` is an authenticated GitHub client that can be used to make API calls. It is an instance of the [`@octokit/rest` Node.js module](https://github.com/octokit/rest.js), which wraps the [GitHub REST API](https://developer.github.com/v3/) and allows you to do almost anything programmatically that you can do through a web browser.
Here is an example of an autoresponder app that comments on opened issues:
```js
module.exports = robot => {
robot.on('issues.opened', async context => {
// `context` extracts information from the event, which can be passed to
// GitHub API calls. This will return:
// {owner: 'yourname', repo: 'yourrepo', number: 123, body: 'Hello World!}
const params = context.issue({body: 'Hello World!'})
// Post a comment on the issue
return context.github.issues.createComment(params)
})
}
```
See the [full API docs](https://octokit.github.io/rest.js/) to see all the ways you can interact with GitHub. Some API endpoints are not available on GitHub Apps yet, so check [which ones are available](https://developer.github.com/v3/apps/available-endpoints/) first.
## GitHub Enterprise
If you want to run a Probot App against a GitHub Enterprise instance, you'll need to set the `GHE_HOST` environment variable.
```
GHE_HOST=fake.github-enterprise.com
```
> GitHub Apps are enabled in GitHub Enterprise 2.12 as an [early access technical preview](https://developer.github.com/enterprise/2.12/apps/).