Distill & Cut agent
Real-time heads, hearts, and tails control for reflux, column and plate temperatures, ABV, copper contact, and cut timing.
What it does
Caskent controls the run as chemistry and vapor behavior change, holding the hearts window while the wash, still condition, throughput, and ambient conditions drift.
- Tracks ABV, temperature, copper contact, and quality proxies in real time.
- Identifies heads, hearts, and tails transition risk as it develops.
- Recommends or executes the cut inside approved site guardrails.
How it works
The agent combines still telemetry, inline ABV, spectral signals, lab labels, and prior runs. It predicts cut state continuously and applies bounded changes to reflux, collection, heat input, or operator prompts.
- Maintains an explainable cut-state estimate.
- Uses the digital twin to compare expected and observed run shape.
- Logs every transition, recommendation, and actuation.
Capabilities
Closed-loop control for the most valuable moment in the distillery.
Cut-state prediction
Estimates heads, hearts, and tails state from ABV, heat, plates, reflux, and quality signals.
Reflux tuning
Adjusts or recommends reflux and collection strategy to keep product inside the approved window.
Copper contact awareness
Tracks contact and sulfur-risk proxies to guide run stability and cleaning decisions.
Methanol guardrails
Applies hard safety limits before any automated action is allowed.
Operator handoff
Returns control to the distiller on pause, alert, limit breach, or manual request.
Inputs and signals
Live sensing and historical labels turn the cut from judgment alone into measured control.
| Signal | Source | What Caskent does |
|---|---|---|
| ABV | Inline proofing or spout measurement | Maps run state and detects hearts-window drift. |
| Column / plate temperature | Still telemetry | Predicts vapor behavior and transition timing. |
| Reflux and heat input | Controller data | Recommends bounded changes to stabilize the cut. |
| Copper contact | Still configuration and run profile | Flags contact-risk patterns tied to off-notes. |
| Quality labels | Lab, GC, sensory, and prior runs | Calibrates the model to site-specific cut intent. |
Control sequence
The cut is an ordered decision, so the agent runs an ordered loop.
- Step 1STATE
Detect transition
Continuously estimates whether the run is in heads, entering hearts, inside hearts, or approaching tails.
- Step 2VERIFY
Check safety and quality
Compares methanol risk, ABV, congener proxies, and recipe rules against hard guardrails.
- Step 3ACT
Commit the cut
Prompts the operator or actuates approved collection and reflux changes, then records the decision.
Outcomes
Illustrative design-partner targets, measured against each still baseline.
Assurance note
Distill & Cut operates under bounded control with hard safety and quality limits. Recommendations and actions are logged with context, and the distiller remains human-in-the-loop through shadow, assist, and graduated autonomy modes.
Works with the rest of the stack
The cut improves when upstream and downstream agents share context.
The cut became a controlled operation instead of a tense handoff. We could see why the agent called hearts, and every decision was available for the quality review.
Hold the hearts window with governed autonomy.
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