So we don't want to give hints how to curl and grab the binary directly? I'm okay with that, just thought I'd double-check.

Yes, I don't want to recommend that (but this is not a strong belief). Grabbing a precompiled binary once or twice is fine, but that curl script is too easy to either bake into a tooling script (which inevitably breaks when we change something).

Not sure if it's a responsibility we want to take on, but it's a nice thing if we give an "official" means to install our stuff in an automated way.

This comes to mind as an example (not sure if it's a good practice to run a script from the scary internet, but the script itself tries to be thorough - e.g. verifying checksums)
https://golangci-lint.run/welcome/install/#other-ci

I see. Actually, I think our use-case is exactly the opposite: we want desktop users to use a relatively new version of the CLI (and Homebrew is great for that), while golangci-lint and other CI tools need to be pinned to one version.

But we could create an official installer script if needed, sure. A slim docker image as well.

I didn't necessarily want to highlight that you can ask for a specific version, just the fact that there's a script that you can reference and it will work no matter what.