---
title: "Distilled"
description: "Sam Goodwin describes provider client libraries that return Effects and named error types under the Distilled name."
plain: "Sam Goodwin describes Distilled as Effect-native provider SDKs with tagged errors, even for undocumented ones."
group: concept
terms:
  - "Distilled"
sources:
  - url: https://youtu.be/fPSxB7ZgSJw?t=3319
    title: "Alchemy, Infrastructure as Effects | Office Hours 27 🔥 - YouTube"
    publisher: "Sam Goodwin"
    note: "SDK discussion; used for Effect-native clients and tagged provider errors."
    accessed: "2026-10-01"
---

# Distilled

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Sam describes Distilled as providing provider client libraries that return Effects with named error types.
These include errors that provider specifications do not document. [Effect Office Hours 27, 55:19](https://youtu.be/fPSxB7ZgSJw?t=3319) [56:35](https://youtu.be/fPSxB7ZgSJw?t=3395).

See [Effect Office Hours 27](/lore/effect-office-hours-27-alchemy-infrastructure-as-effects).

## Sources

1. [Alchemy, Infrastructure as Effects | Office Hours 27 🔥 - YouTube](https://youtu.be/fPSxB7ZgSJw?t=3319)
   Sam Goodwin. SDK discussion; used for Effect-native clients and tagged provider errors. Accessed 2026-10-01.

## Linked from

- Agent guide → An Effect stack so pure (aspirational) Kit Langton will blush. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/llms.txt)

- Change log → What changed in the files served here, newest first. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/log)

- Full agent guide → An Effect stack so pure (aspirational) Kit Langton will blush. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/llms-full.txt)

- Rat Stack lore | rat-stack → Short, source-grounded notes on the ideas and decisions behind rat-stack. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/lore)

- Source change history (log.md) → The generated change log as Markdown. → [Read page](https://ratstack.sh/log.md)