the language

nika

Language contract version · exactly `v1` for the v1 lifetime. NOT `v1.0` · `1` · `1.0`. One of 59 words the served contract declares, projected from workflow.schema.json, the same file your editor validates against.

1surfaceenvelope
1required inenvelope
"v1"typethe 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.

envelope*: "v1"Language contract version · exactly `v1` for the v1 lifetime. NOT `v1.0` · `1` · `1.0`.the file itself

in a real file

from the chain skeleton

chain.nika.yaml

9nika: v1

a 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

where it lives

[]

defined by

01-envelope

the block it lives in

envelope: the file itself

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