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Composition templates place group with a bar or list arrangement
A composition template has no way to arrange ordinary slots as a row, except by placing the bar rune, which is a name-resolution boundary (SPEC-145 D19). And it has no way to wrap an each slot's items in a list. SPEC-156 D2 and D3 answer both with one template tag, {% group name="…" layout="bar|list" %}, an engine wrapper with an arrangement. Renamed 2026-10-29: the ladder is ADR-018's canonical list, with the contract SPEC-181 D3 defines; SPEC-181 D4 adds grid and carousel to the same tag later.
A template can place {% group %} with a required name and layout of bar or list; it renders with data-name and no data-rune, and an unknown layout is rejected at schema construction, naming it (D2)
A bar group renders data-zone-layout="bar" over what it holds, and a child written as {% group name="…" align="end" %} renders data-align="end" and pushes to the end (D2)
A list group renders a host data-layout="list" holding an <ol> (when the definition declares a sequence) or <ul> items track (data-name="items"), and wraps each each iteration placed directly in it, or else each top-level node it holds, in an <li> (D3)
Skeleton gains SPEC-181 D3's [data-layout="list"] [data-name="items"]: the list reset and column flow for a list with no sequence. cast's list mode uses it and its own reset is deleted (D3)
{% group %} is a template tag only: on a page it is reported as an unknown tag, as today (D2)
A group is safe where schema is involved: a node-sourced schema property inside a group resolves, asserted against a placed {% bar %} where it does not (D9)
The composed-runes guide documents {% group %} and D9's grouping rule
Contracts are regenerated on both copies and the CSS coverage test passes
References
SPEC-156: D2, D3, D9.
ADR-030: rule 6, the group form.
SPEC-181: D3, the list contract; D4, the full set of group layouts.