What's the best way to grab script references after instantiation

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When I instantiate a say a monster in runtime, I need to access for example its NavMeshAgent and have to call GetComponent. Even if I have a script on the bugger to store all his components so I only have to make one GetComponent I still have to call at least once per, yes? Is there a better/faster way?

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  1. Find the object via a tag at runtime and then get it’s components? (example getting a script component)

    private GameObject Monster1;

    private Monster1Script monster1Script;

    void Start()
    {
    Monster1 = GameObject.FindWithTag(“Monster1”)
    // get the Monster1Script.cs component of the Monster1 GameObject
    monster1Script = Monster1.GetComponent();
    }

  2. If you are not using tags (or multiple monsters share the same tag) you would have to use public static GameObject Find(string name);