the language
with
Task-level scope injection · `${{ with.X }}`. One of 59 words the served contract declares, projected from workflow.schema.json, the same file your editor validates against.
- 1surfacetask
- optionaleverywherea choice, never a miss
- objecttypethe declared shape
- 13skeletonscarry this key
the contract
1 declarationthe wiring · this key DECLARES an edge, so it wears the same ink as the reference it introduces · the binding and the arrow are one fact
Descriptions are the schema's own; the deeper invariants (value languages and regexes) ride the same projection. A miss is a nika check finding before anything runs.
- task
objectTask-level scope injection · `${{ with.X }}`.one step of the plan
in a real file
from the chain skeleton think: with: gather: ${{ tasks.gather.output }} infer: max_tokens: 800 # SLOT: the spend ceiling · sized for the SEAT, not the answer # The marker below is a VALUE, not a comment. The parser drops # comments, so a `# SLOT:` line could never make `check` refuse — # which is how an unfilled scaffold ran green and left a file that # read like a result (#1066). Replace the line, keep the binding. prompt: | <SLOT: what should the model do with the gathered text?> ${{ with.gather }}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
where it lives
from the blog
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 →