the language
id
Workflow id · kebab-case · the document-type discriminator (W1: the envelope became an object). One of 59 words the served contract declares, projected from workflow.schema.json, the same file your editor validates against.
- 1surfaceworkflow
- 1required inworkflow
- stringtypethe declared shape
- 10skeletonscarry this key
the contract
1 declarationDescriptions 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*
stringWorkflow id · kebab-case · the document-type discriminator (W1: the envelope became an object).inside workflow:^[a-z][a-z0-9-]*$
in a real file
from the chain skeletonchain.nika.yaml
id: chain-template # SLOT: kebab-case workflow ida verbatim slice, real line numbers from chain.nika.yaml, conformance-gated upstream on every spec push. open the full skeleton →
cross-references
skeletons that carry it
the check gates that name it
defined by
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 →