the language
max_attempts
the retry ceiling, the leash on flake. One of 59 words the served contract declares, projected from workflow.schema.json, the same file your editor validates against.
- 1surfaceretry
- 1required inretry
- integertypethe declared shape
- 1skeletonscarry 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.
- retry*
integerthe retry ceiling, the leash on flakeinside retry:
in a real file
from the fanout skeletonfanout.nika.yaml
process: with: discover: ${{ tasks.discover.output }} for_each: ${{ with.discover }} max_parallel: 4 # SLOT: the polite ceiling fail_fast: false timeout: "60s" # SLOT: per-iteration bound retry: max_attempts: 3 backoff_strategy: exponential jitter: true on_error: recover: null # a failed item yields null at its index · the batch lives infer: # SLOT: the per-item job (any verb) prompt: | Process this item · ${{ item }}a verbatim slice, real line numbers from fanout.nika.yaml, conformance-gated upstream on every spec push. open the full skeleton →
cross-references
skeletons that carry it
defined by
the block it lives in
retry: inside retry:
The whole grammar in one place: the four verbs · the standard library · the spec. Try it in the playground. Read the reference →