Introduces a dynamic LayerForge downloads badge (LAYERFORGE.md), new GitHub Actions for badge generation and improved release versioning, and example workflow files. Updates README to use the new badge and bumps version to 1.3.0 in pyproject.toml. Adds issue templates for bug reports and documentation requests.
Introduces a release workflow that triggers on pushes to main. The workflow extracts the version from pyproject.toml, ensures unique version tags, and creates a GitHub release using softprops/action-gh-release.