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Advertise brew install, now that the tap exists and works - #11

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BootIntel/homebrew-tap is public and carries the 0.5.0 formula, so brew tap bootintel/tap && brew install bootintel works. The README said it was planned and the in-repo template said it was "not published to any tap yet"; both are now false.

This is the step deliberately held back until the channel worked, for the reason the CLI review found three advertised install paths were dead ends: a command that fails reads as an abandoned project, which is worse than an absent line.

The in-repo template was also stale at 0.3.1 with that release's checksums. Refreshed to 0.5.0, with a header saying plainly that the tap is what ships and this file is only the reference copy.

Verified: all four checksums in the published tap formula were cross-checked against the SHA256SUMS artifact of cli-v0.5.0, and each matches its own platform. A hand-copied set can silently be wrong for one target only, which is why this was checked programmatically rather than by eye.

Not verified: the actual brew install. There is no Homebrew or Ruby on this host, so the formula has never been parsed or executed. It wants one real run on a Mac before anyone relies on the README line.

The README said a public tap for `brew install bootintel` was planned, and the
in-repo formula template said it was "not published to any tap yet". Both are
now false: BootIntel/homebrew-tap is public and carries the 0.5.0 formula.

This is the step deliberately held back until the channel worked, for the
reason the CLI review found three advertised install paths were dead ends: a
command that fails reads as an abandoned project, which is worse than an
absent line.

The template was also stale at 0.3.1 with that release's checksums. Refreshed
to 0.5.0, and its header now says plainly that the tap is what ships and the
template is only the reference copy, so nobody edits this file expecting users
to get it.

Verified: all four checksums in the published tap formula were cross-checked
against the SHA256SUMS artifact of cli-v0.5.0 and each matches its own
platform, which a hand-copy can silently get wrong for one target only.

Not verified: the actual `brew install`. There is no Homebrew or Ruby on this
host, so the formula has not been parsed or executed. It wants one real run on
a Mac before anyone relies on the line in the README.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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