feat(stale): add stale action

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• Fifteen repositories each decide on their own when a quiet issue is dead, and most of them decide never, so the backlog is noise rather than signal.
• Seven repositories still carry .github/stale.yml for the deprecated Probot app, which no longer runs at all.
• The label vocabulary is fixed rather than configurable, because a rename in one repository is the drift that makes a shared check worthless.

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The pull request adds a composite actions/stale action. It documents inputs, outputs, labels, messages, and processing policies. Release-please configuration and manifest entries register the action at version 0.0.1.

Changes

Stale action

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Action contract and execution actions/stale/action.yml, actions/stale/README.md	Defines five inputs and two outputs. Invokes actions/stale@v11.0.0 with fixed labels, messages, milestone, ordering, close-reason, and branch-deletion settings. Documents usage and behavior.
Release registration .github/release-please-config.json, .github/release-please-manifest.json	Adds actions/stale with component stale and version 0.0.1 to release-please.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Workflow
  participant StaleAction
  participant ActionsStale
  Workflow->>StaleAction: invoke with configured inputs
  StaleAction->>ActionsStale: apply labels and processing policies
  ActionsStale-->>StaleAction: return stale and closed item arrays
  StaleAction-->>Workflow: expose action outputs

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c4bde

Large repositories may repeatedly process the first batch while later issues remain untouched. Correct the documented permission before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely states that the pull request adds the stale action.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the reasons for adding the stale action, replacing deprecated configurations, and enforcing fixed labels. It is directly related to the changeset.
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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In `@actions/stale/README.md`:
- Around line 25-27: Update the usage example’s permissions block to include
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