Nika

Use Nika as a deterministic workflow worker orchestrated by Hermes terminal tools. Nika is an open-source (AGPL) Rust engine that captures a repeatable AI task as a plain-text *.nika.yaml file, audits it before a single token is spent (plan, cost floor, secret flows, types), executes it against local or cloud providers (Ollama/llama.cpp/vLLM included), and records a tamper-evident trace.

Division of labor: Hermes orchestrates · Nika captures repeatable work as a checkable file and runs it with receipts. Nika is NOT another coding agent — for autonomous coding, use the opencode skill. Delegate to Nika when the work should be repeatable, budgeted, and auditable.

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