WORK-347
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ID:WORK-347Status:done

Explicit bento-cell authoring

Make {% bento-cell %} a first-class authoring path for full per-tile control (the dashboard use case), alongside the heading sugar. Today the bento-cell tag is registered but convertHeadings would swallow a hand-authored cell into the preceding heading's content, so explicit authoring doesn't actually work.

Priority:mediumComplexity:moderateMilestone:v0.19.0Source:SPEC-085
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Acceptance Criteria

  • A bento whose children include {% bento-cell %} tags uses them directly as cells, short-circuiting heading conversion (no mixing within one grid — out of scope by decision).
  • An explicit cell accepts cols / rows (precise per-axis grid spans) and/or size (preset), plus media-position, href, and a ----split media zone (the SPEC-085 / WORK-345 contract). The legacy span attribute is removed (subsumed by cols).
  • When no explicit cells are present, heading sugar behaves as defined in WORK-348.
  • A grid that mixes headings and explicit cells is handled deterministically (explicit cells win / headings ignored) and documented; it is not a supported authoring pattern.
  • Tests cover: an all-explicit grid (incl. cols/rows), an all-heading grid, and the mixed-input fallback.

Approach

In bento's processChildren / transform, detect explicit bento-cell tag nodes up front; if any exist, bypass convertHeadings and pass the cells through. Otherwise run heading conversion. Keep the cell transform identical for both paths so structure is uniform; cols/rows/size resolve to grid spans per WORK-348.

References

  • plugins/marketing/src/tags/bento.ts (convertHeadings, bento transform), plugins/marketing/src/index.ts (bento-cell registration)
  • Substrate SPEC-085; cell zones WORK-345; sizing WORK-348

Resolution

Completed: 2026-06-06

Branch: claude/v0.19-bento

What was done

  • Explicit cells short-circuit heading sugar. bento's processChildren now scans for {% bento-cell %} tag nodes up front: if any exist, it filters to only those (headings and loose content are ignored) and bypasses convertHeadings; otherwise it runs heading conversion as before. "Explicit wins, no mixing" is deterministic by construction.
  • Explicit cells are full first-class. The same bentoCell transform serves both paths, so a hand-authored cell accepts cols/rows (per-axis spans → --cell-cols/--cell-rows), size (preset), media-position, href (stretched link), and a ----split media/body/footer zone set. The leading heading becomes the uniform-level <h3> title.
  • media-position schema attr is kebab (media-position, matched against top|bottom|start|end) so the author-facing attribute matches the emitted data-media-position. The legacy span attribute was already removed in WORK-348 (subsumed by cols).
  • Added 2 tests to plugins/marketing/test/bento.test.ts: an all-explicit grid (cols/rows/href/media-position="end" → resolved field spans, data-media-position, <a data-name="link">, <h3> title) and a mixed-input grid (explicit cell used, sibling heading ignored). The all-heading path is covered by the existing sugar tests. 12 bento tests green.

Notes

  • No config or contract changes vs WORK-348 — this is a transform-only change (the bento-cell tag and its config already existed; the gap was purely that convertHeadings swallowed explicit cells).
  • Mixing headings + explicit cells in one grid is intentionally unsupported: explicit cells win, headings are dropped. Documented in the AC; not surfaced as an error since it is a degenerate authoring case.