diff --git a/Containerfile b/Containerfile
index 4cd47f52..fdfdf330 100644
--- a/Containerfile
+++ b/Containerfile
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}:${FEDORA_MAJOR_VERSION} AS builder
 ARG IMAGE_NAME="${IMAGE_NAME}"
 ARG FEDORA_MAJOR_VERSION="${FEDORA_MAJOR_VERSION}"
 
+ADD github-release-install.sh /tmp/github-release-install.sh
 ADD build.sh /tmp/build.sh
 ADD post-install.sh /tmp/post-install.sh
 ADD packages.json /tmp/packages.json
diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index dccdf174..ad89bf98 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -56,3 +56,6 @@ else
     echo "No packages to install."
 
 fi
+
+## install packages direct from github
+/tmp/github-release-install.sh sigstore/cosign x86_64.rpm
diff --git a/github-release-install.sh b/github-release-install.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..00836b8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/github-release-install.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# A script to install an RPM from the latest Github release for a project.
+#
+# ORG_PROJ is the pair of URL components for organization/projectName in Github URL
+# example: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/releases
+#   ORG_PROJ would be "wez/wezterm"
+#
+# FILTER is used if there are more than one RPMs which match our arch/noarch.rpm pattern
+# example: wezterm builds a lot of rpms, but they are labeled by distro so we can filter
+#   FILTER would be "fedora36" to get the RPM build for fedora36 OR "fedora" should get
+#          the RPM build for fedora37 (or newest fedora build) due to a reverse sort
+
+ORG_PROJ=${1}
+SUFFIX=${2}
+FILTER=${3}
+
+usage() {
+  echo "$0 ORG_PROJ SUFFIX [FILTER]"
+  echo "    ORG_PROJ - organization/projectname"
+  echo "    SUFFIX   - trailing part of rpm name: eg, x86_64rpm or noarch.rpm"
+  echo "    FILTER   - optional extra filter to further limit rpm selection"
+
+}
+
+if [ -z ${ORG_PROJ} ]; then
+  usage
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ -z ${SUFFIX} ]; then
+  usage
+  exit 2
+fi
+
+API="https://api.github.com/repos/${ORG_PROJ}/releases/latest"
+RPM_URLS=$(curl -sL ${API} | jq -r '.assets[].browser_download_url' | grep -E "${SUFFIX}$" | grep "${FILTER}" |sort -r)
+for URL in ${RPM_URLS}; do
+  # WARNING: in case of multiple matches, this only installs the first (hopefully the newest, given the reverse sort)
+  echo "execute: rpm-ostree install \"${URL}\""
+  rpm-ostree install "${URL}"
+  break
+done