Enhancement (Core Feature): Create base GitHub app for Byte

[JacobCoffee]

Summary

For interactions with GitHub (e.g., anything other than reading) I think it would be best to create a GitHub app for API interaction. We can create discussions, reply on issues (#28, etc.), and more.

Looking across the available packages, https://github.com/yanyongyu/githubkit seems like the best fit. It utilizes httpx, has Octokit-like levels of feature set, async support, and is kept up to date.

Basic Example

• Create GitHub app
• Process bot requests, interact with library inside of our project, send to GitHub, and vice versa
• Listen to requests from GitHub through web server API calls/webhooks

https://docs.github.com/en/apps/creating-github-apps/about-creating-github-apps/deciding-when-to-build-a-github-app

Drawbacks and Impact

No response

Unresolved questions

Project layout could be tricky. Do we have a fourth segment (on top of src/{byte,web,database}) for the GitHub portion, or can we intermingle in the byte "domain"?

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