timeout

Language reference / timeout

Meaning and placement

task

Go-duration string · quoted · e.g. ”30s” “5m” “1h30m” “2.5s”. Max 24h.

Property	Declaration
Requirement	Optional in this object
Schema location	`/$defs/task/properties/timeout`
type	`"string"`
pattern	declaration below

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

In a source template

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

illustration

      items: ${{ const.items }}
      max_parallel: 2
      fail_fast: true
    timeout: 30s
    infer:
      prompt: '${{ const.brief }}

        Item: ${{ item }}'
      # a reasoning model needs 16384 here, or a documented run.reasoning.effort: low
      max_tokens: 2048

Templates containing this field

Template	Source
`templates/bounded-batch.nika`	Line 52
`templates/fanout.nika`	Line 117
`templates/parallel-review.nika`	Line 74
`templates/project-public-fields.nika`	Line 77
`templates/recover-optional-file.nika`	Line 30

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

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