AGPL-3.0-or-later · forever.

the language

temperature

0-2 · number or `${{ }}`. 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
  • number | stringtypethe declared shape
  • schemathe sourcenever prose

the contract

2 declarations

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.

infer
number | string0-2 · number or `${{ }}`.inside infer:
agent
number | stringinside agent:

in a real file

a crafted check-green file
tts_generate.nika.yaml
  line:    infer:      model: ollama/qwen3.5:4b      prompt: "One warm sentence announcing a green run. Nothing else."      temperature: 0.9    retry:      max_attempts: 3      backoff_ms: 500      backoff_max_ms: 4000

a verbatim slice, real line numbers from tts_generate.nika.yaml, nika check green; the drift gate re-proves this copy on every test run.

cross-references

no skeleton carries it and no registered code names it; the schema row is the whole story today.

accepted by

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 →