Because people are crazy, usage of npm for installing binaries is quite common unfortunately.
So …. do I understand it right? openai, one of the hottest companies on the planet right now, with very deep pockets, distribute their official rust cli via the … public npm repo?
Yes.
There is also homebrew install.
Maybe they consider npm-install an improvement over curl-pipe-bash?
The one from npm is signed by OpenAI, which means computer use from the CLI. The brew distribution requires using the Codex app for computer use.