docs: update README download badges

[elkaix]

Related Issue

No issue. This is a maintainer-requested README and badge workflow update.

Problem

The README shows the npm package version as the release and counts only desktop downloads. This
does not match the desktop-focused README or the combined counter on code.pythinker.com.

What changed

• Show the latest stable desktop release version from PyModel/pythinker-desktop-releases.
• Publish downloads-total.json as the larger of desktop downloads and npm last-year downloads,
  matching the site formula.
• Refresh the badge document after this workflow reaches main, while retaining the daily refresh.
• Remove the license badge without changing the other README badges.

Risk

• Low. The workflow keeps its existing write boundary on the orphan badges branch.
• A failed or invalid npm response stops the job before publication, retaining the last valid count.
• No dependency, telemetry, package, or shipped application changes.

Verification

• Exact workflow shell run: desktop 550, npm 2857, published downloads 2857.
• Workflow YAML parse and ShellCheck passed.
• GitHub Markdown preview rendered release, downloads, platform, Node.js, and visitor badges with no
  license badge.
• The live release badge and target resolved to v0.3.9.
• Pre-push Sherif, lint, web-asset freshness, Nix-hash freshness, typecheck, and changed-test gates
  passed.

Rollback and review

• Rollback: revert this PR. The unused JSON document can remain on the badges branch safely.
• Residual risk: the new endpoint exists only after the post-merge workflow completes.
• Human review: confirm the badge source and workflow write scope.

Checklist

• I have read the CONTRIBUTING document.
• This maintainer-requested change has no related issue.
• The documentation/workflow behavior is covered by exact workflow execution and rendering.
• No changeset is needed for this documentation and CI-only change.
• No generated documentation update is needed; the README is the canonical target.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added combined desktop and overall download badges.
  • Download badges now reflect desktop release activity.

• Documentation

  • Updated the release badge to link to desktop releases.
  • Removed the license badge from the README.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The workflow now generates desktop and combined download badges, including npm counts, and commits the new total endpoint. The README updates its release and download badge links and removes the license badge.

Changes

Download badge refresh

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Download endpoint generation .github/workflows/desktop-download-badges.yml	The workflow runs when this file changes on main, generates desktop and combined Shields endpoints, retrieves npm download counts with validation and retries, and selects the larger count for downloads-total.json.
Badge publication and README references .github/workflows/desktop-download-badges.yml, README.md	The workflow commits the new endpoint with the existing badge files. The README uses desktop release metadata, total downloads, and no license badge.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to fa4cb

This change updates README badges and the badge-refresh workflow without affecting shipped application behavior, dependencies, or package data. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHub as GitHub Actions
  participant Releases as Desktop releases
  participant Npm as npm downloads API
  participant Repository as Repository files
  GitHub->>Releases: Read desktop release assets
  GitHub->>Npm: Retrieve npm download count
  GitHub->>GitHub: Select the larger count
  GitHub->>Repository: Write and commit badge endpoints
  Repository->>Repository: Update README badge references

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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title uses the conventional docs: prefix, uses imperative mood with "update," stays within 72 characters, and accurately describes the README badge changes.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the related-issue exception, problem, changes, risks, verification, rollback, review points, and checklist. It is complete for this maintainer-requested documentation and workfl…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The description covers the related-issue exception, problem, changes, risks, verification, rollback, review points, and checklist. It is complete for this maintainer-requested documentation and workflow change.

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No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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