clock

Language reference / clock

Meaning and placement

→ run

system (wall time, default) · virtual (the injected virtual clock · time becomes a contract input · a timeout: budget reads against it)

Property	Declaration
Requirement	Optional in this object
Schema location	`/properties/run/properties/clock`
enum	declaration below

In the same object: access · entropy · reasoning Schema source (use the pointer above)

In a source template

Excerpt from templates/bounded-batch.nika, source lines 10–19. This is a fragment, not a runnable workflow.

illustration

nika: bounded-batch
model: ollama/qwen3.5:4b
run:
  clock: system
const:
  brief: '<SLOT: the per-item instruction>'
  items:
  - first note
  - second note
permits:

Templates containing this field

Template	Source
`templates/bounded-batch.nika`	Line 13
`templates/fanout.nika`	Line 57
`templates/parallel-review.nika`	Line 13
`templates/project-public-fields.nika`	Line 13
`templates/recover-optional-file.nika`	Line 12

These are literal key occurrences in the source files, not an execution or conformance claim. How to instantiate a template.

Contract and implementation

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Meaning and placement

→ run

In a source template

Templates containing this field

Contract and implementation

​Meaning and placement

​→ run

​In a source template

​Templates containing this field

​Contract and implementation

Meaning and placement

→ run

In a source template

Templates containing this field

Contract and implementation