release: Initial CI set up and version bump.

.github/CODEOWNERS

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+# The primary mechanism for mandating specific reviewers on a per-file basis in
+# this repo is REQUIRED_REVIEWERS. CODEOWNERS is only used as a secondary
+# measure to protect against modifications to the files involved in the required
+# reviewers mechanism and itself.
+
+# Order: last matching pattern takes the most precedence.
+#   Please refer the link for the detail
+#   https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-code-owners
+
+/.github/CODEOWNERS @nelimee @rolandriver
+/.github/REQUIRED_REVIEWERS @nelimee @rolandriver
+/.github/workflows/required_reviewers.yml @nelimee @rolandriver
+/tools/check_reviewers.py @nelimee @rolandriver

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug.yml

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+name: Bug report
+description: Create a bug report to help us improve
+title: "bug: <your title here>"
+labels: ["bug"]
+assignees: []
+
+body:
+  - type: markdown
+    attributes:
+      value: |
+
+        Thank you for contributing to the improvement of Deltakit. Please fill out the following sections to report a bug.
+
+        > [!NOTE] A bug is a disagreement between actual and documented behaviour, or an inaccurate error message.
+        > Please file a [request from](https://github.com/Deltakit/deltakit-decode/issues/new?template=request.yml) if the
+        > documentation does not define the expected behaviour, if you disagree with the documented behaviour, or if you
+        > are asking for a new feature or performance improvement.
+        > Please use the [test failure form](https://github.com/Deltakit/deltakit-decode/issues/new?template=test_failure.yml)
+        > if you're a contributor seeing a test failure in main, either locally or on CI.
+
+  - type: checkboxes
+    id: cla-signature
+    attributes:
+      label: Contributor License Agreement
+      description: Please confirm the following before submitting
+      options:
+        - label: A Contributor Licence Agreement signature is required for any first PR contribution. Further information can be found in our [contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md).
+          required: true
+
+  - type: textarea
+    id: bug-description
+    attributes:
+      label: Bug Description
+      description: |
+        Please provide a succinct description of the observed behaviour.
+    validations:
+      required: true
+
+  - type: textarea
+    id: minimal-example
+    attributes:
+      label: Minimal Reproducible Example
+      description: |
+        Please provide a [Minimal Reproducible Example](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_reproducible_example)
+        as a copy-pastable code snippet if possible. If not, describe steps to
+        reproduce the behaviour. Please enclose code blocks within triple backticks.
+      placeholder: |
+        ```python
+        # Copy-pastable, executable code here
+        ```
+
+  - type: textarea
+    id: actual-behaviour
+    attributes:
+      label: Actual behaviour
+      description: What actually happens. Please enclose code output / error messages within triple backticks.
+
+  - type: textarea
+    id: expected-behaviour
+    attributes:
+      label: Expected behaviour
+      description: What you expected to happen. Please cite (with links) relevant documentation about what should happen.
+
+  - type: textarea
+    id: additional-context
+    attributes:
+      label: Additional context
+      description: Add any other context about the bug reported here.

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/request.yml

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+name: Request
+description: Suggest an idea for this project
+title: "request: <your title here>"
+labels: ["request"]
+assignees: []
+
+body:
+  - type: markdown
+    attributes:
+      value: |
+
+        Thank you for contributing to the improvement of Deltakit. Please fill out the following sections to suggest any new feature, performance or code quality improvements.
+
+  - type: checkboxes
+    id: cla-signature
+    attributes:
+      label: Contributor License Agreement
+      description: Please confirm the following before submitting
+      options:
+        - label: A Contributor License Agreement signature is requested for any first PR contribution. Further information can be found in our [contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md).
+          required: true
+
+  - type: textarea
+    id: motivation
+    attributes:
+      label: Motivation
+      description: A description of the feature or improvement.
+      placeholder: Ex. As a user, I would like to [...]
+    validations:
+      required: true
+
+  - type: textarea
+    id: proposed-solution
+    attributes:
+      label: Proposed solution
+      description: A description of a possible implementation.
+    validations:
+      required: true
+
+  - type: textarea
+    id: alternatives
+    attributes:
+      label: Potential alternatives
+      description: Any alternative solutions or features you've considered.
+
+  - type: textarea
+    id: additional-context
+    attributes:
+      label: Additional context
+      description: Add any other context about the feature request here.

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/test_failure.yml

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+name: Test failure report
+description: Create a test failure report
+title: "test: <your title here>"
+labels: ["test"]
+assignees: []
+
+body:
+  - type: markdown
+    attributes:
+      value: |
+
+        Thank you for contributing to the improvement of Deltakit. Please fill out the following sections to report a test failure.
+
+  - type: checkboxes
+    id: cla-signature
+    attributes:
+      label: Contributor License Agreement
+      description: Please confirm the following before submitting
+      options:
+        - label: A Contributor License Agreement signature is requested for any first PR contribution. Further information can be found in our [contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md).
+          required: true
+
+  - type: textarea
+    id: failure-summary
+    attributes:
+      label: Test Failure Summary
+      description: |
+        Please copy-paste the failure summary produced by `pytest`.
+    validations:
+      required: true
+
+  - type: textarea
+    id: related-prs
+    attributes:
+      label: Relevant issues/PRs
+      description: Please link to relevant issues/PRs, indicating their connection (e.g. "See CI failure here.")
+
+  - type: textarea
+    id: additional-context
+    attributes:
+      label: Additional context
+      description: Please add any other context about the problem here, such as debugging suggestions or platform information.

.github/REQUIRED_REVIEWERS

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+# This file functions just like a CODEOWNERS but without automatic assignment
+# of all codeowners to every PR that touches code they own - it is the
+# responsibility of the PR author to pick a few people from the list.
+
+# You are encouraged to add non-default reviewers where you know someone else
+# may have useful insight or has been recently working in the area touched by
+# your PR. Anyone is able to contribute to pull request review, and is
+# encouraged to do so
+
+# Order: last matching pattern takes the most precedence.
+#   Please refer the link for the detail
+#   https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-code-owners
+
+* @nelimee @rolandriver
+
+# Dependency changes should also be reviewed by the deltakit core maintainers
+/pyproject.toml @rolandriver @nelimee

.github/dependabot.yml

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+# To get started with Dependabot version updates, you'll need to specify which
+# package ecosystems to update and where the package manifests are located.
+# Please see the documentation for all configuration options:
+# https://docs.github.com/code-security/dependabot/dependabot-version-updates/configuration-options-for-the-dependabot.yml-file
+
+version: 2
+updates:
+  - package-ecosystem: "uv"
+    directories:
+      - "/"
+    schedule:
+      interval: "weekly"
+
+    commit-message:
+      prefix: fix(dependencies)
+      prefix-development: chore(dependencies)
+    # Grouping all development dependencies together, and all production libraries together.
+    groups:
+      dev-deps:
+        dependency-type: "development"
+      prod-deps:
+        dependency-type: "production"
+    # Ideally, we would like "widen" here. Even though it is explicitly written as "supported" for
+    # uv in the documentation (https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/reference/supply-chain-security/dependabot-options-reference#versioning-strategy--)
+    # it is not in practice...
+    # So sticking to the closest option we have for the moment, which is not ideal, but exists.
+    versioning-strategy: increase-if-necessary

.github/pull_request_template.md

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+## 🔗 Closed Issues
+
+Link any issues closed or comments addressed by this PR.
+"Closes #X" will close issue X automatically when the PR is merged.
+
+---
+
+## 📝 Description
+
+Add any additional description required to understand the PR.
+Cite related issues, PRs, or comments as needed.
+
+---
+
+## 🚦 Status
+
+If anything still needs to be done before this PR can be merged, track it here.
+
+---
+
+## 🛠️ Future Work
+
+Focused PRs are good!
+Create and link issues for any follow-up work needed.
+
+---
+
+## ➕️ Additional Information
+
+Anything that doesn't fit into a category above.
+
+---
+
+## 🧾 Release Note
+
+If this PR will be **squash-merged**, draft the final one-line commit message here.
+Otherwise, describe your rebase strategy or how you plan to maintain clean commits.