will.anderson
412bd2744e
Two changes: 1. el_runtime.c — engram_activation_dampen(): add floor of 0.35. ISE nodes with ac=900+ had dampen=0.128, giving effective salience=0.038 which fell below the epist>=0.1 gate in engram_activate. This silently killed curiosity seeds "self identity values" and "decision pattern lesson" — the only corpus matches were high-ac ISEs that were then excluded from results, causing activated=0 on 50% of proactive_curiosity scans. Floor at 0.35 keeps salience=0.3 nodes at effective_bg=0.105, above the visibility threshold, without disrupting relative ordering of content nodes. 2. server.el — route_create_node: replace stale inline auto-link with auto_link_content_node(). The inline logic used the old engram_search_json (substring, no ISE filter) while the better BM25-based auto_link_content_node was added in 2026-05-28 and wired to /api/neuron/* routes but not to the raw /api/nodes POST path. Removes ~40 lines of duplicated logic.