the language
returns
The task's output contract (spec 09-types.md) — exclusive with a verb-level schema: (NIKA-TYPE-003). One of 59 words the served contract declares, projected from workflow.schema.json, the same file your editor validates against.
- 1surfacetask
- optionaleverywherea choice, never a miss
- anytypethe declared shape
- schemathe sourcenever prose
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.
- task
- The task's output contract (spec 09-types.md) — exclusive with a verb-level schema: (NIKA-TYPE-003)one step of the plan
in a real file
No gated source on this site speaks returns yet. The contract above is the reference, and the register never invents evidence. Try it in the playground: nika check teaches the shape.
cross-references
the check gates that name it
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 →