Ensure mission-control runs a step in demos; cap gas & guard thermodynamics

[MontrealAI]

Motivation

• Avoid demo failures when ownerMissionControl is invoked with all checks skipped by ensuring at least one step runs.
• Prevent intrinsic gas too high deploy/mint failures by keeping transaction gas under the latest block limit.
• Prevent thermodynamics reporting from throwing when target contracts are not deployed by skipping on-chain instantiation for absent bytecode.
• Harden CI/demo workflows and provide missing hardhat configs so local rehearsals run more reliably.

Description

• Ensure mission control executes a step by adding --only 'surface' to ownerMissionControl invocations in scripts/v2/asiGlobalDemo.ts and scripts/v2/asiTakeoffDemo.ts.
• Add resolveBlockGasLimit() to scripts/v2/deployDefaults.ts and use the computed gasLimit for token.mint, Deployer.deploy* calls, and deploy transactions.
• Add hasDeployedCode() and conditional contract instantiation in scripts/v2/thermodynamicsReport.ts to skip missing contracts and emit notes.
• Add config/job-registry.hardhat.json and config/thermodynamics.hardhat.json, normalize settlers in config/thermodynamics.ci.json, quote hex env keys and bump Foundry to v1.4.4 in multiple GitHub workflow files, and set REGISTRY_OWNER in release.yml.

Testing

• Ran Hardhat compile as part of the demo which compiled 253 Solidity files successfully (success).
• Executed the owner testnet dry-run which completed with status pass.
• Produced the thermodynamics report as JSON which completed and emitted notes for missing contracts (success).
• Started npm run demo:asi-takeoff which began execution but was manually interrupted (interrupted).

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