AGPL-3.0-or-later · forever.

the language

description

one honest sentence about the workflow; it shows in listings and traces. One of 59 words the served contract declares, projected from workflow.schema.json, the same file your editor validates against.

  • 1surfaceworkflow
  • optionaleverywherea choice, never a miss
  • stringtypethe declared shape
  • 10skeletonscarry this key

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.

workflow
stringone honest sentence about the workflow; it shows in listings and tracesinside workflow:

in a real file

from the chain skeleton
chain.nika.yaml
  description: "gather → think → persist"   # SLOT: one honest sentence

a verbatim slice, real line numbers from chain.nika.yaml, conformance-gated upstream on every spec push. open the full skeleton →

the block it lives in

workflow: inside workflow:

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