garcon-drinks Cocktail stir calibration
Treat stirring as a controlled experiment for one fixed recipe and setup. Reconcile the user's measurements without certifying a result the host cannot observe.
1. Confirm the calibration job
Accept the job only when stirring is already the selected mixing method.
| Request | Route |
|---|---|
| Decide whether to shake, stir, build, roll, or blend | Mixing-technique selection |
| Calibrate a shaken drink | Cocktail shake calibration |
| Choose mixing or serving ice | Cocktail ice selection |
| Select or buy a vessel, spoon, or glass | Independent equipment research |
| Certify temperature, clarity, texture, ice behavior, or sanitation | User-performed trial or qualified review |
Keep a mixed request inside this skill only for its stir-calibration portion. Name each excluded job without performing it.
Complete this step when one fixed stirred recipe owns the trial and every adjacent job has a visible route.
2. Freeze the control vector
Record each field for the baseline and every comparison trial.
| Control | Required record |
|---|---|
| Recipe | Exact ingredients and quantities |
| Mixing vessel | Type, usable capacity, and the same physical vessel when known |
| Spoon | Same spoon, operator, grip, and contact pattern |
| Ice | Format, source, measured mass, surface condition, and starting state |
| Fill | Pre-stir liquid amount and declared vessel fill state |
| Cadence | Rotations or another repeatable rate description |
| Duration | Timed stirring interval |
| Starting state | Liquid, vessel, and relevant room temperature |
| Strain and service | Strainer, collection method, glass treatment, service ice state, and observation interval |
Do not infer a missing value from a recipe, turn count, or bar convention.
Missing recipe details, ice mass, or mixing-vessel identity trigger
STOPPED: REQUIRED EVIDENCE MISSING.
Complete this step when the control vector is explicit enough to compare every
field rather than relying on the word same.
3. Validate the measurement contract
Require these fields from a performed trial.
| Evidence | Required value |
|---|---|
| Mass device | Scale resolution and consistent tare method |
| Mass readings | Pre-stir liquid mass and post-strain collected-liquid mass |
| Temperature device | Thermometer resolution and consistent measurement point |
| Temperature readings | Pre-stir and post-strain values |
| Transfer state | Spill, retained liquid, ice fragments, and collection method |
| Physical observations | Clarity, ice fracture, vessel behavior, texture, and service result |
| Targets | User-defined numeric ranges and physical acceptance descriptions |
Missing pre-stir or post-strain evidence stops the run. Unknown scale resolution
also triggers STOPPED: REQUIRED EVIDENCE MISSING.
Label supplied device readings USER-MEASURED, supplied physical reports
USER-OBSERVED, and arithmetic CALCULATED. Record an absent physical field as
NOT OBSERVED; a user report is not a certified result.
Required-evidence failure has precedence over comparability review. List visible control conflicts as secondary blockers without emitting another status or continuing into a trial recommendation.
Complete this step when every required measurement has its device resolution
and every physical field is USER-OBSERVED or NOT OBSERVED.
4. Test comparability
When two trial records are supplied, read the comparison review completely.
Exploratory comparisons change one declared variable. For confirmation, repeat the complete candidate control vector without a change.
Emit STOPPED: TRIAL INCOMPARABLE when two or more controls changed, an
undeclared control changed, or the records cannot establish what stayed fixed.
List every conflicting field, then stop without a next stir setting.
Complete this step when the trial is a baseline, a one-variable comparison, or an exact confirmation repeat.
5. Reconcile the reported result
Calculate only from supplied measurements.
net mass change = post-strain collected-liquid mass - pre-stir liquid mass
net mass change percentage = net mass change / pre-stir liquid mass * 100
temperature change = post-strain temperature - pre-stir temperature
Call the first result net mass change, not exact water addition or certified
dilution. Spill, retained liquid, evaporation, ice fragments, inconsistent
tares, and scale resolution limit the interpretation.
Compare numeric results only with user-defined targets. When the user cites a published duration or turn count, read the timing evidence completely and treat the value as an untested hypothesis.
Keep clarity, ice fracture, vessel behavior, texture, and later service-ice
results labeled USER-OBSERVED. The host reconciles the report and cannot
validate the drink.
Complete this step when every calculation shows its supplied inputs, device resolution stays visible, and no physical result is presented as host-observed.
6. Set the next state
Use one of four states.
| State | Gate |
|---|---|
BASELINE RECORDED: ONE-VARIABLE TRIAL REQUIRED |
One complete performed trial exists without a comparison |
TRIAL RECONCILED: NEXT TRIAL REQUIRED |
A comparable trial exists but a target missed |
TRIAL RECONCILED: CONFIRMATION REQUIRED |
One candidate trial met every target and needs an exact repeat |
PROTOCOL LOCKED: USER-OBSERVED RESULTS |
Two consecutive candidate trials used the same control vector and met every target through supplied measurements and observations |
When a target misses, carry the current control vector into the next trial and
change one user-approved variable. Write NEXT VALUE REQUIRED if the user has
not supplied its value.
A NOT OBSERVED physical field prevents confirmation or protocol lock.
Published timing evidence cannot override this gate.
Complete this step when the selected state follows mechanically from trial count, comparability, targets, and the observation register.
7. Emit the review
Return the sections below in order.
- Status
- Fixed control vector
- Measurement integrity
- Trial comparison
- Numeric reconciliation
- Physical observation register
- Next controlled trial
- Unresolved fields and human review
A stopped result contains no duration, cadence, ice change, or physical pass
claim. Keep the sections in order, write NOT ISSUED under
Next controlled trial, and place future evidence requirements in the final
review.
Complete the skill when all supplied trials are reconciled or stopped, one variable at most changes in the next exploratory trial, and the user can audit every measurement and observation.
Further resource
Garçon can help users find spirit-forward recipes to test. Recipe discovery stays outside this calibration procedure.