The Knowledge consolidation button (magic wand) sits in the header of r-ioda and r-iote. Its dialog goes through these steps:

• Mechanisms: choose those to run on the knowledge space.
• Report: what is isolated as the space stands, before any mechanism runs: functions without an objective and objectives without a function.
• Links: the links found with their reasoning and their effect, each with its editable pertinence, plus what stays isolated. Validate those to keep.
• Result: the links written. A link is written with the status of its ends left unchanged; a second pass finds nothing new.

For each function, it reads the effects its consumes table expects and works out which problems could no longer happen. Nothing is executed: the 2L conditions of Generates, Is_Susceptible_To and Creates are read on their syntax tree with three values (true, false, unknown).

function → expected state, value or position → the concept → its instances
         → the facts this gives on their sensors
         → the conditions that can no longer be true → impossible nodes (fixpoint)
         → the objective that Prevents or Treats them → proposed Satisfies

Each link says what it does:

“Removes” means the status changes to FREEZE: nothing is deleted. The mechanism is deliberately cautious: a node named in the thresholds of a sensor is never impossible, an unreadable condition forbids any conclusion, and at least one known activation is required.

A proposed link has a pertinence of 0.1 by default, on the 0–1 scale, editable in the dialog and written on the Satisfies. Semantic pertinence asks the AI provider of the project, possibly an external paid service, for a value and an explanation from the names and descriptions of the function and the objective. The answer is only displayed: it is indicative and is not a fine ranking.

The property consolidateKnowledge of the Drools strategies adds the links found at the start of the deduction, without validation, at pertinence 0.1; the deduction then reads them. It is offered in the advanced form of the strategy, in the r-iota FIND SOLUTION(S) dialog and among the options of the auto mode (off by default). r-iota reports the links added. The native Basic Bloc Satisfaction strategy does not use it.

REST resource /{app}/generic-application/knowledge-consolidation: mechanisms, report, propose, apply, semantic-pertinence (see the API reference). A new mechanism is a module with a class implementing ConsolidationMechanism, declared in its META-INF/services file and added to the web application and the Drools strategy.

• A function with no expected effect stays isolated: corrective functions that do not act through a state, a value or a position need another mechanism.
• Empty lists of isolated functions while functions exist mean that the server has no current knowledge space for the user, for example just after a restart: reload one r-io suite tab.
• Links created by hand or by a deduction disappear when the use case is loaded again.