Goal relevance
A salience dimension and reinforcement channel that measures how directly an experience event or memory relates to currently active goals. High goal relevance increases retrieval priority and reinforcement weight, biasing the system toward evidence that bears on its current objectives.
Goal relevance connects the goal system to both the attention engine and the reinforcement engine. As a salience dimension, it increases the priority of memories and signals that relate to active goals, ensuring that goal-relevant information surfaces during retrieval even if it would otherwise score lower on recency or novelty. As a reinforcement channel (weighted at 14% of the final reinforcement score), it ensures that experiences which advance or inform goal progress receive proportionally stronger reward signals than goal-neutral experiences of similar importance. This creates a virtuous cycle: memories that help the system make progress toward goals accumulate reinforcement priority, surface more readily in future retrievals, and continue to receive goal relevance credit as long as those goals remain active.