An object's `each` source can now be a GRAPH QUERY: `(query is-a TYPE)` resolves to
whatever is-a TYPE *right now* — the list isn't baked into the body, it's the live graph.
The object's `each` IS the query; the render is the run over current data (the unifying
property, now over real data).
compose.sx stays self-contained: the `query` source delegates to a resolver bound in the
render context under "query" — it asks the context for data, never reaching into the graph
itself. The host supplies graph access via host/blog--comp-query (`(query is-a TYPE)` ->
host/blog-instances-of -> full records) injected by host/blog--comp-ctx (auth + resolver);
the post handler renders :body against that context.
Added a `val` leaf — the raw field value with no markup wrapper, for use inside attributes
(href/src). `field` stays span-wrapped for display; `(val :slug)` makes a real link in the
each template. /compose-demo's each is now a live (query is-a compose-item) over two seeded
instances instead of a baked literal list.
Verified end-to-end via a focused harness eval over the full relations+persist+blog stack
(query iterates real instances; clean href via val; empty query -> empty, not an error).
Blog suite 151/153 — the 2 fails ("relate-options load-more sentinel", "related picker
offers all posts") are PRE-EXISTING (clean HEAD is 149/151 with the identical 2 fails, a
relate-picker pagination-boundary issue) and unrelated to composition; my 2 new tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cards-as-OBJECTS model (plans/composition-objects.md): an object's :body is a tiny UI
language over content-addressed object refs; the render-fold is its interpreter. Four
combinators — seq (sequence) / row,grid (layout/par) / alt+when (conditional/or) / each
(iteration/loop) — plus field/text/card leaves, ref (transclude), and tmpl (recursion).
The two fundamentals designed IN: (1) recursion via self-referential named templates
(tmpl) + each over (children) + a depth guard — renders trees (verified: a nested type
hierarchy -> [Types[Article][Card[Image][Callout]]]); (2) the context is an extensible
ENVIRONMENT — reads it, extends it (:item, :depth) — so behaviour (Slice 9)
and reactivity (signals) plug in via the context with no new combinators.
and/or/choice fall out of one axis ( on forks) x the container strategy (render-all
vs render-first), so Alt isn't a new node — it's 'first'. The unifying property, proven:
the object's CID is its DEFINITION (query/template/every when-variant); render is the
EXECUTION (which items/branch/context). One object renders two ways by context (anon ->
'Please log in', authed -> 'Members area'). Render-fold and the Slice-9 behaviour interpreter
are the same shape — interpreters over content-addressed objects.
lib/host/compose.sx is self-contained (no blog deps); verified via sx_eval (every combinator
+ a recursive tree + a full composed doc across two contexts). Roadmap: wire :body into
host/blog-render, each-source=graph-query, live context, Lexical->card-objects import, block
editor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
