Fix pattern decay rates and watcher noise filtering#270
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Three fixes for signal quality issues found during agent audit: 1. Pattern decay rates increased — self-sustaining patterns now decay at 0.995/cycle (was 0.9999, ~30% monthly loss vs ~0.07%). Normal patterns 0.995 (was 0.998). Stale threshold reduced from 7 to 3 days. Stale decay rates increased across all tiers. 2. Hard-reject release tooling files — .release-please-manifest.json and CHANGELOG.md added to heuristic lockfile rejection list. These are deterministic files with zero semantic value. 3. Salience floor raised 0.0 → 0.5 in DefaultConfig — non-MCP memories below 0.5 salience (shallow config changes, desktop noise) are skipped during encoding. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Three signal quality fixes found during agent audit of v0.26.0:
1. Pattern decay was effectively disabled for established patterns
Self-sustaining patterns (10+ evidence, 0.9+ strength) had 0.9999 per-cycle decay — a month of hourly consolidation only reduced them by 0.07%. Stale patterns from weeks ago were stuck at strength 1.0.
2. Release tooling files bypassed heuristic filtering
.release-please-manifest.jsonscored 0.45 heuristic (0.3 base + 0.15 JSON config bonus), clearing the 0.4 salience floor. Added to hard-reject list alongsideCHANGELOG.md.3. Salience floor was too permissive
Default was 0.0 (effectively disabled). Raised to 0.5 to filter shallow config changes and desktop noise before they reach the encoding pipeline.
Test plan
make build+make testpassgolangci-lint run— 0 issues