infer

Language reference / infer

Meaning and placement

task

The schema declares this field at the location below.

Property	Declaration
Requirement	Optional in this object
Schema location	`/$defs/task/properties/infer`
$ref	`"#/$defs/infer"`

In the same object: after · agent · exec · extract · for_each · group · invoke · lift · on_error · retry · returns · timeout · when · with Schema source (use the pointer above)

In a source template

Excerpt from templates/agent-loop.nika, source lines 49–58. This is a fragment, not a runnable workflow.

illustration

tasks:
  plan:
    infer:
      prompt: "Break '${{ inputs.goal }}' into at most 4 concrete steps."   # SLOT
      # SLOT: the spend ceiling for the planning call. Size it for the SEAT,
      # not for the answer: a reasoning model spends tokens thinking before
      # it emits the first brace, and a ceiling that cuts it off mid-thought
      # fails NIKA-INFER-002 ("no JSON value found · the reply was cut off at
      # the token limit"). Measured — 400 starves qwen3.5:4b on this prompt.

Templates containing this field

Template	Source
`templates/agent-loop.nika`	Line 52
`templates/bounded-batch.nika`	Line 53
`templates/chain.nika`	Line 65
`templates/classify-and-route.nika`	Line 77
`templates/corpus-qa.nika`	Line 97
`templates/docker-report.nika`	Line 69
`templates/document-to-fields.nika`	Line 58
`templates/evaluate-and-optimize.nika`	Line 39
`templates/fanout.nika`	Line 124
`templates/media-asset-pack.nika`	Line 52
`templates/parallel-review.nika`	Line 75
`templates/project-public-fields.nika`	Line 78
`templates/website-brief.nika`	Line 62

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

Contract and implementation

This page projects the named specification revision. Check released engine status and the validation workflow before running a file. An optional field is not evidence that every engine supports every value. Canonical identity: language:word:infer. Spec revision: 5c40ba456c53. How documentation stays connected.

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Meaning and placement

task

In a source template

Templates containing this field

Contract and implementation

​Meaning and placement

​task

​In a source template

​Templates containing this field

​Contract and implementation

Meaning and placement

task

In a source template

Templates containing this field

Contract and implementation