the language
outputs
The workflow's return value · symmetric to inputs. Each entry is a `${{ tasks.X.output }}` reference (untyped form · string) OR a typed declaration { value · type · description }. Powers `nika run` result + the output half of the callable-workflow schema. One of 59 words the served contract declares, projected from workflow.schema.json, the same file your editor validates against.
- 1surfaceenvelope
- optionaleverywherea choice, never a miss
- objecttypethe declared shape
- 10skeletonscarry this key
the contract
1 declarationDescriptions are the schema's own; the deeper invariants (value languages and regexes) ride the same projection. A miss is a nika check finding before anything runs.
- envelope
objectThe workflow's return value · symmetric to inputs. Each entry is a `${{ tasks.X.output }}` reference (untyped form · string) OR a typed declaration { value · type · description }. Powers `nika run` result + the output half of the callable-workflow schema.the file itself
in a real file
from the chain skeletonoutputs: result: ${{ tasks.think.output }} # SLOT: the callable contracta 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
from the blog
defined by
the block it lives in
The whole grammar in one place: the four verbs · the standard library · the spec. Try it in the playground. Read the reference →