nika-workflowlisted
Install: claude install-skill supernovae-st/nika-agents
# Nika Workflow
[Nika](https://nika.sh) is an open-source Rust engine that captures a
repeatable AI task as one plain-text `*.nika.yaml` file. The file is
audited before a single token is spent, runs against local or cloud
providers under a spend ceiling, and records a hash-chained journal you
can verify afterwards.
Use it for the work that repeats. Nika is not a coding agent and does not
compete with one: OpenClaude writes the code, Nika runs the chore that
comes back every week and hands you a receipt for it.
## Use this skill when
- The user describes a prompt or prompt chain they run more than once — a
weekly digest, an inbox triage pass, a release-note draft — and wants it
captured as something re-runnable.
- A shell or Python script in the repo calls a model API, or wraps HTTP,
file and JSON plumbing around model output.
- The user asks for a hard spend ceiling on an AI task, or asks what a
task will cost before it runs.
- The user needs a record of what an AI run actually did: a receipt, an
audit trail, something a reviewer can check independently.
- A `*.nika.yaml` file is open or being written, or `nika check` reported
a `NIKA-XXXX` finding that needs fixing.
## Do NOT use this skill when
- The user wants a one-off answer or a single tool call — answer directly,
a workflow file is overhead.
- The user wants application code written, refactored or reviewed — that
belongs to a coding skill.
- The task needs conversational back-and-forth mid-execut