Author an Operations Runbook for Proxy Contract Upgrades

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Problem Statement

No step-by-step for safely executing a proxy upgrade.

Why it matters

Runbooks reduce operator error during incidents.

Technical Context

Compose docs/operations/PROXY_UPGRADE.md detailing pre-flight, governance vote, signers, post-conditions.

Expected Outcome

Scenario walkthrough that a new ops engineer can follow.

Acceptance Criteria

1. Mermaid of the upgrade sequence.
2. CLI snippets per step.
3. Failure recovery sections.
4. Cross-linked from README.

Implementation Notes

Pure doc.

Files or modules likely to be affected

docs/operations/PROXY_UPGRADE.md.

Dependencies

#1.

Difficulty level

HARD.

Estimated effort

L (~4 days).

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