You're right, although I think what I was actually wrong about was what minikanren is (probably by looking at examples in languages I was less familiar with).

I don't want to do logic programming in clojure (or whatever other language), I want to do logic programming in Prolog and drop it into my clojure project and have to do as little plumbing as possible.

The nearest analogy I can come up with is LINQ. In the examples in [1] the experience of the developer is closer to writing SQL in the middle of a C# or VB file, rather than having a good C# database query library.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g...