v0.5.17 release (latest)

v0.5.17 release notes for the GitHub Release v0.5.17 (release task: Issue #1035).

Tag state (verified against origin)

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`v0.5.17`	annotated tag `9a734542db26f07b5922171b346f913ddb6ffdc2`	commit `fcb23b2372a51a36951147f40ceab760e93aec26`

Repository declares no GitHub topics: set the ten topics for discovery (Issue #1019)
PyPI page for orbi-cli has no project links: add [project.urls] to pyproject.toml (Issue #1020; PR #1026)
ai-ready label description names no definition: point it at aiready.sh (Issue #1021; PR #1025)

Release ordering change opened three failure windows between local tag and published Release (Issue #1018; PR #1023)

README first screen: claim, three-number ledger, one inspectable Issue→PR→Release loop above Quick start (Issue #1027; PR #1030)
Docs pages carry a question-shaped description and a one-sentence answer as the first paragraph (Issue #1028; PR #1029)
Publish the 3rd/docker image to GHCR and Docker Hub on every release, with an overview that links back to the repo and docs (Issue #1031; PR #1033)
Docs: add a Notes group with the first engineering note (macOS port, six defects) as the canonical home for long-form posts (Issue #1036; PR #1037)

orbi check skips every machine prerequisite when the config file is missing (Issue #1015; PR #1024)
Unknown-verdict-head retry budget is per PR lifetime, not per run as documented (Issue #1017; PR #1022)
CI failure: tests on branch main (push) (Issue #1032; PR #1034)