AGPL-3.0-or-later · forever.

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 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*
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 skeleton
chain.nika.yaml
  id: chain-template            # SLOT: kebab-case workflow id

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 →