WORK-356
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Bento levels — heading→footprint ladder

Implement the author-defined levels ladder for bento's heading-sugar path, per ADR-013. One attribute replaces the need for the removed sizing/span mode: a user who wants the old uniform-width grid writes levels="6,5,4,3,2,1".

Queued deliberately — the design is settled in ADR-013; left to marinate before implementation.

Priority:mediumComplexity:moderateMilestone:v0.19.0Source:ADR-013
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Criteria completion

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Behavior (from ADR-013)

  • New levels attribute on bento, heading-sugar path only.
  • Omitted → current tiered behavior (proportional large/medium/small), unchanged and columns-safe.
  • Provided → comma-separated ladder, indexed by relative heading depth (0 = shallowest, auto-detected base):
    • W (bare integer) → cols=W, rows=1
    • WxH → cols=W, rows=H
  • Rungs are absolute against the declared columns; no proportional entries.
  • Ladders shorter than the deepest heading clamp to the last rung.
  • Explicit {% bento-cell %} grids ignore levels.
  • Composes with existing columns, row-height, and content-height.

Approach (sketch — finalize on pickup)

  • Add levels to the bento schema attributes in plugins/marketing/src/tags/bento.ts (freeform string; validate the ladder in the transform, warn on malformed rungs rather than via Markdoc matches).
  • In convertHeadings, when levels is set, parse it once into a { cols, rows }[], then for each converted heading assign cols/rows from ladder[min(relativeDepth, ladder.length − 1)], short-circuiting the tieredSize preset path. Default path untouched.
  • No engine/config change expected (cells already carry cols/rows); confirm via refrakt inspect bento and regenerate contracts/structures.json only if the output surface actually changes.
  • No new Lumina CSS — cells already render cols/rows spans.

Acceptance Criteria

  • bento accepts a levels attribute; omitting it leaves tiered behavior byte-for-byte unchanged.
  • levels="6,5,4,3,2,1" reproduces the removed span mode (uniform height, width by heading depth) at columns=6.
  • Bare-integer rungs map to cols=W, rows=1; WxH rungs map to cols=W, rows=H.
  • Rungs are indexed by relative heading depth from the auto-detected base; depths beyond the ladder clamp to the last rung.
  • Explicit {% bento-cell %} grids ignore levels.
  • Malformed levels entries produce a clear authoring warning, not a crash.
  • levels composes correctly with columns, row-height, and content-height.
  • Marketing tests cover: width-only ladder, WxH ladder, clamping, and the omitted-default-unchanged case.
  • Bento authoring docs document levels, with the levels="6,5,4,3,2,1" uniform-width recipe called out.

Context

  • Supersedes any revival of sizing="span" — see ADR-013 for the full rationale and rejected alternatives (faithful formula, proportional tiers ladder, proportional entries in levels).
  • Related: WORK-354 (responsive per-cell spans) and the bento collapse model — orthogonal; levels governs initial sizing, not breakpoints.

Resolution

Completed: 2026-06-08

Branch: claude/v0.19-bento

What was done

  • plugins/marketing/src/tags/bento.ts: added the levels attribute + parseLevels(); rewrote convertHeadings() to index an explicit footprint ladder by relative depth (clamping to the last rung), with the base level auto-detected (shallowest heading) and shared by the tiered and ladder paths. Ladder cells carry a neutral empty size so the size-based responsive collapse leaves their explicit width intact (the span auto-cap still applies).
  • plugins/marketing/test/bento.test.ts: 8 new tests — width-only ladder (span-mode revival), WxH feed, clamping, auto-detected base, neutral size, explicit-cells-ignore-levels, malformed-rung warning, tiered-unchanged.
  • site/content/runes/marketing/bento.md: new "Custom ladders" section documenting levels with the 6,5,4,3,2,1 uniform-width recipe + the varied-height feed; new "Aligning cells" section for the content-height/media-ratio pair; documented the previously-undocumented row-height; updated both attribute tables and the heading-sugar base-level description.
  • .changeset/bento-levels.md.

Notes

  • levels is build-time only (no data attribute / CSS) → no structure-contract change.
  • Ladder rungs are absolute against columns (no proportional entries), per ADR-013; proportional rungs remain a forward-compatible follow-up.

Amendment (2026-06-08): absolute heading level

The depth model shipped as absolute heading level, not the auto-detected relative depth described in the original Notes and acceptance criteria above: #→full, ##→large, ###→medium, ####+→small, and levels rungs indexed by absolute level (rung 0 = #/h1), clamped to the last rung. This supersedes the "auto-detected base / relative heading depth" wording in the criteria and the (now removed) auto-detect Notes bullet. Rationale and full detail: ADR-013 ("Amendment"). Tests and docs were updated to match.