diff --git a/.agents/setup b/.agents/setup
index 0f924bebe..841f6036b 100755
--- a/.agents/setup
+++ b/.agents/setup
@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@ repo_root="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
 buf_path="/usr/local/bin/buf"
 buf_url="https://github.com/bufbuild/buf/releases/download/v1.47.2/buf-Linux-x86_64"
 buf_sha256="3a0c4da8d46eea8136affa63db202c76a44f8112384160b73c3fffb1cf14b5d8"
-ctags_path="/usr/local/bin/universal-ctags"
-ctags_url="https://storage.googleapis.com/universal_ctags/x86_64-linux/dist/universal-ctags-6.0.0.2783f009"
-ctags_sha256="e99b942754ce9d55c9445513236c010753d26decbb38ed932780bec098ac0809"
 
 if ! command -v go >/dev/null 2>&1; then
   echo "Installing Go from Debian testing..."
@@ -43,13 +40,8 @@ if ! echo "$buf_sha256  $buf_path" | sha256sum --check --status 2>/dev/null; the
   trap - EXIT
 fi
 
-if ! echo "$ctags_sha256  $ctags_path" | sha256sum --check --status 2>/dev/null; then
-  echo "Installing Universal Ctags..."
-  ctags_download="$(mktemp)"
-  trap 'rm -f "$ctags_download"' EXIT
-  curl -fsSL --retry 5 -o "$ctags_download" "$ctags_url"
-  echo "$ctags_sha256  $ctags_download" | sha256sum --check --status
-  sudo install -m 0755 "$ctags_download" "$ctags_path"
+if ! command -v universal-ctags >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  sudo CTAGS_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/bin "$repo_root/install-ctags-alpine.sh"
 fi
 
 echo "Downloading Go modules..."
diff --git a/install-ctags-alpine.sh b/install-ctags-alpine.sh
index d395cd116..1ff1cbd67 100755
--- a/install-ctags-alpine.sh
+++ b/install-ctags-alpine.sh
@@ -9,13 +9,16 @@
 
 CTAGS_VERSION=2024.01.07
 CTAGS_COMMIT=4053f69a35d8d3d307b274040f27c147eec79ee7
+CTAGS_INSTALL_DIR=${CTAGS_INSTALL_DIR:-/usr/bin}
 # GitHub release asset digests for uctags-${CTAGS_VERSION}-linux-*.tar.xz
 CTAGS_TAR_SHA256_X86_64=0c0bbc9f81d3f7151988b94e78c64914ab41ee4c5e10debfe79f73fee54a68a0
 CTAGS_TAR_SHA256_AARCH64=a50e25cb5b4ced8fea119984695e77464aaa73d5d4a53c10fec34dd82b1d9e5f
 
 set -eux
 
-apk add --no-cache xz
+if command -v apk >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  apk add --no-cache xz
+fi
 
 case "${TARGETARCH:-$(uname -m)}" in
   amd64 | x86_64)
@@ -26,7 +29,10 @@ case "${TARGETARCH:-$(uname -m)}" in
     ctags_arch=aarch64
     tar_sha256=$CTAGS_TAR_SHA256_AARCH64
     ;;
-  *) echo "unsupported architecture: ${TARGETARCH:-$(uname -m)}" >&2; exit 1 ;;
+  *)
+    echo "unsupported architecture: ${TARGETARCH:-$(uname -m)}" >&2
+    exit 1
+    ;;
 esac
 
 archive_name="uctags-${CTAGS_VERSION}-linux-${ctags_arch}.tar.xz"
@@ -38,7 +44,7 @@ wget -qO "$archive_path" "${base_url}/${archive_name}"
 
 echo "$tar_sha256  $archive_path" | sha256sum -c -
 tar -xJf "$archive_path" -C /tmp
-install -m 0755 "/tmp/${extract_dir}/bin/ctags" /usr/bin/ctags
+install -m 0755 "/tmp/${extract_dir}/bin/ctags" "$CTAGS_INSTALL_DIR/ctags"
 rm -rf "$archive_path" "/tmp/${extract_dir}"
 
-ln -sf /usr/bin/ctags /usr/bin/universal-ctags
+ln -sf "$CTAGS_INSTALL_DIR/ctags" "$CTAGS_INSTALL_DIR/universal-ctags"