the language
description
Free-form prose about the workflow · documentation for whoever reads the file, never read by the engine (spec/01-envelope.md). One of 62 words the served contract declares, projected from workflow.schema.json, the same file your editor validates against.
- 1surfaceworkflow
- optionaleverywherea choice, never a miss
- stringtypethe 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.
- workflow
stringFree-form prose about the workflow · documentation for whoever reads the file, never read by the engine (spec/01-envelope.md).inside workflow:
in a real file
from the chain skeleton # SLOT: one honest sentence — `nika new` matches intents against these words description: "gather → think → persist"a 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
defined by
the block it lives in
workflow: inside workflow:
The whole grammar in one place: the four verbs · the standard library · the spec. Try it in the playground. Read the reference →