the language
decode
How the captured string becomes a value · `text` (default) · `json` · `jsonl` · `bytes`. Illegal with `capture: structured`, which already IS an object (NIKA-PARSE-025) · a non-parsing stream settles the task `failure` inside `on_error:` scope (spec 09 §decode). One of 62 words the served contract declares, projected from workflow.schema.json, the same file your editor validates against.
- 1surfaceexec
- optionaleverywherea choice, never a miss
- stringtypethe 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.
- exec
stringHow the captured string becomes a value · `text` (default) · `json` · `jsonl` · `bytes`. Illegal with `capture: structured`, which already IS an object (NIKA-PARSE-025) · a non-parsing stream settles the task `failure` inside `on_error:` scope (spec 09 §decode).inside exec:textjsonjsonlbytes
in a real file
No gated source on this site speaks decode 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
accepted by
defined by
The whole grammar in one place: the four verbs · the standard library · the spec. Try it in the playground. Read the reference →