the language
temperature
Sampling temperature · 0 is the steadiest the provider offers, 2 the loosest. A number in 0-2, or a `${{ }}` reference. One of 62 words the served contract declares, projected from workflow.schema.json, the same file your editor validates against.
- 2surfacesinfer · agent
- optionaleverywherea choice, never a miss
- number | stringtypethe declared shape
- schemathe sourcenever prose
the contract
2 declarationsDescriptions are the schema's own; the deeper invariants (value languages and regexes) ride the same projection. A miss is a nika check finding before anything runs.
- infer
number | stringSampling temperature · 0 is the steadiest the provider offers, 2 the loosest. A number in 0-2, or a `${{ }}` reference.inside infer:- agent
number | stringSampling temperature for every turn of the loop · 0 is the steadiest the provider offers, 2 the loosest. A number in 0-2, or a `${{ }}` reference.inside agent:
in a real file
a crafted check-green file 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: 4000a 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.
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 →