the language
workflow
The workflow object · a stable home for identity and metadata (W1 'the map'). One of 59 words the served contract declares, projected from workflow.schema.json, the same file your editor validates against.
- 2surfacesenvelope · invoke
- 1required inenvelope
- objecttypesstring
- 10skeletonscarry this key
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.
- envelope*
objectThe workflow object · a stable home for identity and metadata (W1 'the map').the file itself- invoke
stringCompose another workflow (spec 14) · a STATIC target: a filesystem path OR registry:owner/name@version (pinned). A templated target is refused at check (NIKA-COMP-001). Exactly one of tool: | workflow: (the invoke tagged union · G21).inside invoke:
in a real file
from the chain skeletonchain.nika.yaml
workflow: id: chain-template # SLOT: kebab-case workflow id description: "gather → think → persist" # SLOT: one honest sentencea 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
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 →