From 3935da45cd9cbe45465838b30b64e0962d504933 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: smaramwbc <145447586+smaramwbc@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:12:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs: use static Docker badge to avoid shields.io rate-limit
 errors

The live shields.io docker/pulls badge reads Docker Hub's metadata API,
which is frequently throttled and renders as "rate limited by upstream
service". Swap to a static badge that makes no API call and links to the
Docker Hub repository. Image pulls go through the registry and are
unaffected by this change.
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 README.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f17ca2d..11e70cb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 [![License: Apache 2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue.svg)](LICENSE)
 [![Python 3.11+](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.11%2B-blue.svg)](https://www.python.org/)
 [![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/statewave)](https://pypi.org/project/statewave/)
-[![Docker Pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/statewavedev/statewave)](https://hub.docker.com/r/statewavedev/statewave)
+[![Docker](https://img.shields.io/badge/docker-statewavedev%2Fstatewave-2496ED?logo=docker&logoColor=white)](https://hub.docker.com/r/statewavedev/statewave)
 
 Statewave is the open-source memory runtime that gives AI agents reproducible, provenance-tagged context — without sampling-noise from query-time retrieval.