feat(agent): expose the HNSW parameters in MemoryConfig

Graph degree and the build- and query-time candidate list sizes were
constants, so a deployment had no way to trade recall against memory or
query speed. They are now `MemoryConfig::hnsw_m`,
`hnsw_ef_construction` and `hnsw_ef_search`, persisted with the store
and defaulting to exactly the previous behaviour (16, 64, and a query
list that scales with `k`).

Two things the straightforward version would have got wrong:

`clawhdf5-ann` asserts a graph degree of at least 2, so a configured 0 —
from a file, or from a caller reading 0 as "use the default" — aborted
the process inside the index builder. The store clamps instead, and a
test covers it: removing the clamp makes that test panic rather than
fail.

`ef_search` and the candidate pool handed to score fusion were the same
number. Tying the pool to the new setting would mean lowering `ef` for
speed also narrows what fusion sees, quietly degrading hybrid results
through a knob that looks like it only costs time. They are now
independent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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@@ -433,6 +433,10 @@ ClawhDF5's agent memory design draws from 15+ recent papers:
| `float16` | **yes** | Half-precision embedding storage (2× compression) |
| `hnsw` | **yes** | HNSW approximate vector index for `hybrid_search` (via `clawhdf5-ann`); disable for an exact linear scan |
`MemoryConfig::hnsw_m`, `hnsw_ef_construction` and `hnsw_ef_search` tune the
vector index (16 / 64 / scale-with-`k` by default) and are stored with the
file.
`MemoryConfig::quantized_index` (off by default) stores the HNSW index's own
copy of the embeddings as `i8`, roughly halving a loaded store's memory
(2.72x -> 1.74x the raw vectors at 100k x 384). Quantised distances are