the language
schema
JSON Schema · structured output contract. One of 59 words the served contract declares, projected from workflow.schema.json, the same file your editor validates against.
- 2surfacesinfer · agent
- optionaleverywherea choice, never a miss
- objecttypethe declared shape
- 3skeletonscarry this key
the contract
2 declarationsDescriptions 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.
- infer
objectJSON Schema · structured output contract.inside infer:- agent
objectJSON Schema · validate the agent's final message as structured output.inside agent:
in a real file
from the agent-loop skeletonagent-loop.nika.yaml
plan: infer: prompt: "Break '${{ inputs.goal }}' into at most 4 concrete steps." # SLOT schema: type: object required: [steps] properties: steps: { type: array, items: { type: string } }a verbatim slice, real line numbers from agent-loop.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
from the blog
defined by
the block it lives in
infer: inside infer:
agent: inside agent:
The whole grammar in one place: the four verbs · the standard library · the spec. Try it in the playground. Read the reference →