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🎨 Palette: UX improvement

💡 What:

Enhanced the README.md with visual and accessibility improvements, including descriptive badge alt-text, a clear experimental status alert, and a styled Mermaid architecture diagram.

🎯 Why:

As a backend/infrastructure project, the README.md serves as the primary user interface. These changes improve scannability, accessibility for screen readers, and provide immediate visual context for the system's architecture.

♿ Accessibility:

  • Updated badge alt-text: "License: MIT - Open source software license" and "Status: Experimental - Not recommended for production use".
  • Used high-contrast GitHub Alert blocks for critical project status information.

PR created automatically by Jules for task 13006923872364725215 started by Igor Holt (@igor-holt)

This commit enhances the project's documentation by:
- Adding descriptive alt-text to repository badges for better screen reader accessibility.
- Introducing a high-visibility GitHub Alert to clearly communicate the project's experimental status.
- Adding a styled Mermaid architecture diagram to provide a visual overview of the orchestration layers.
- Following project visual standards for the "Arbiter" core component in the diagram.

Co-authored-by: igor-holt <125706350+igor-holt@users.noreply.github.com>
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The pull request updates the README.md with descriptive badge labels, an experimental status caution, and an architecture diagram. Feedback recommends using the modern flowchart syntax for Mermaid and adding a text-based alternative for better accessibility.

Comment thread README.md
## 🏗️ Architecture

```mermaid
graph TD
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Using flowchart instead of graph is recommended for Mermaid diagrams. flowchart is the more modern and feature-rich syntax, providing better rendering and more consistent behavior for subgraphs and labels.

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graph TD
flowchart TD

Comment thread README.md
Arbiter <--> VRAM

style Arbiter fill:#f96,stroke:#333,stroke-width:4px
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To further enhance accessibility as intended by this PR, consider adding a text-based alternative for the architecture diagram. While Mermaid renders as SVG, complex diagrams can be difficult for screen reader users to navigate. A description within a <details> block below the diagram would ensure the information is accessible to everyone.

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