the language

decode

How the captured string becomes a value (spec 09 §decode) — illegal with capture: structured (NIKA-PARSE-025). One of 59 words the served contract declares, projected from workflow.schema.json, the same file your editor validates against.

1surfaceexec
optionaleverywherea choice, never a miss
stringtypethe declared shape
schemathe sourcenever prose

the contract

1 declaration

Descriptions are the schema's own; the deeper invariants (value languages and regexes) ride the same projection. A miss is a nika check finding before anything runs.

exec: stringHow the captured string becomes a value (spec 09 §decode) — illegal with capture: structured (NIKA-PARSE-025)inside exec:textjsonjsonlbytes

in a real file

No gated source on this site speaks decode yet. The contract above is the reference, and the register never invents evidence. Try it in the playground: nika check teaches the shape.

cross-references

the check gates that name it

where it lives

accepted by

exec

[]

defined by

02-verbs

the block it lives in

exec: inside exec:

The whole grammar in one place: the four verbs · the standard library · the spec. Try it in the playground. Read the reference →