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One binary, many doors. This page is the single map of every surface Nika ships on — pick your door, each row links to the exact guide.
The one-liner everywhere: brew install supernovae-st/tap/nika — then nika init teaches whatever agent you run.

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Install paths

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Keeping the suite fresh

Every surface below invokes the binary, and the plugin kits ride its release train — but no surface updates another: brew never touches a plugin, a marketplace never touches the binary. The ladder, per surface:
nika doctor is the coherence oracle: from v0.107 it reads what each client actually loads, names any kit lagging or leading the binary’s train, and prints the exact per-client fix. Drift is advisory (warn · exit 0) — a diagnosis never breaks automation.

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IDEs & editors

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Agents & assistants

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Skills & plugins (the teaching surfaces)

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MCP (the read-only oracle)

nika mcp exposes 9 tools — validate, explain, examples, schema, cost — no execution, no mutation, by design (threat model).

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CI/CD

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SDKs & language surfaces

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Where Nika is listed

Marketplaces and directories where you’ll find us today — the public submissions ledger (with pinned descriptions and review cadence) lives in listings.yaml.
  • VS Code Marketplace · OpenVSX — the extension
  • skills.sh — the skill pack
  • GitHub topics + release feeds — engine · kit · action · docs · spec · client
  • More MCP registries and community catalogs are in flight — the ledger above is the always-current truth (every submission registers there the day it goes out).

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Learn the patterns first

New to agentic workflows as a concept? agentic-ai-systems (282★) teaches the workflow taxonomy with diagrams — and its patterns-as-code folder expresses each pattern as a runnable .nika.yaml, checked in CI on every push.
Something missing? The kit contract makes adding a surface a folder-copy: nika-plugins — and the integration quickstart is the 10-minute path.