diff --git a/packages/react/src/patterns/F0Dialog/__tests__/F0Dialog.footer-actions.test.tsx b/packages/react/src/patterns/F0Dialog/__tests__/F0Dialog.footer-actions.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8496c8a566
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/react/src/patterns/F0Dialog/__tests__/F0Dialog.footer-actions.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+import { describe, expect, test, vi } from "vitest"
+
+import { screen, userEvent, zeroRender as render } from "@/testing/test-utils"
+
+import { F0Dialog } from "../index"
+
+/**
+ * A footer action that LEAVES the dialog should be a link: "Go to post" is a
+ * place, and a place you cannot cmd-click is a place the reader has to come
+ * back from. The ones that act on what the dialog is showing stay handlers.
+ */
+const dialog = (props: Record<string, unknown>) =>
+  render(
+    <F0Dialog isOpen onClose={() => {}} header={{ title: "A post" }} {...props}>
+      <p>the post</p>
+    </F0Dialog>
+  )
+
+describe("footer actions", () => {
+  test("draws a primary action with a route as a real link", () => {
+    dialog({ primaryAction: { label: "Go to post", href: "/posts/1" } })
+
+    expect(screen.getByRole("link", { name: "Go to post" })).toHaveAttribute(
+      "href",
+      "/posts/1"
+    )
+  })
+
+  test("draws a secondary action with a route as a real link", () => {
+    dialog({
+      secondaryAction: { label: "Go to community", href: "/communities/2" },
+    })
+
+    expect(
+      screen.getByRole("link", { name: "Go to community" })
+    ).toHaveAttribute("href", "/communities/2")
+  })
+
+  test("keeps a handler action a button", async () => {
+    const onClick = vi.fn()
+    dialog({ primaryAction: { label: "Mark as read", onClick } })
+
+    await userEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Mark as read" }))
+
+    expect(onClick).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+  })
+
+  test("reports the press on a link that asked to hear about it", async () => {
+    const onClick = vi.fn()
+    dialog({
+      primaryAction: { label: "Go to post", href: "/posts/1", onClick },
+    })
+
+    await userEvent.click(screen.getByRole("link", { name: "Go to post" }))
+
+    expect(onClick).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/packages/react/src/patterns/F0Dialog/components/F0DialogFooter.tsx b/packages/react/src/patterns/F0Dialog/components/F0DialogFooter.tsx
index 4250b3edfe..63d99794d8 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/patterns/F0Dialog/components/F0DialogFooter.tsx
+++ b/packages/react/src/patterns/F0Dialog/components/F0DialogFooter.tsx
@@ -55,7 +55,10 @@ export const F0DialogFooter = ({
     return (
       <F0Button
         label={primaryAction.label}
-        onClick={primaryAction.onClick}
+        // Spread rather than passed: the button's `href` is one arm of a union,
+        // so an `undefined` one is not the same as none at all.
+        {...(primaryAction.href ? { href: primaryAction.href } : {})}
+        {...(primaryAction.onClick ? { onClick: primaryAction.onClick } : {})}
         variant="default"
         icon={primaryAction.icon}
         iconPosition={primaryAction.iconPosition}
@@ -88,7 +91,12 @@ export const F0DialogFooter = ({
     return (
       <F0Button
         label={secondaryAction.label}
-        onClick={secondaryAction.onClick}
+        // Spread rather than passed: the button's `href` is one arm of a union,
+        // so an `undefined` one is not the same as none at all.
+        {...(secondaryAction.href ? { href: secondaryAction.href } : {})}
+        {...(secondaryAction.onClick
+          ? { onClick: secondaryAction.onClick }
+          : {})}
         variant="outline"
         icon={secondaryAction.icon}
         iconPosition={secondaryAction.iconPosition}
diff --git a/packages/react/src/patterns/F0Dialog/types.ts b/packages/react/src/patterns/F0Dialog/types.ts
index 3b30b611d0..1ef4555c7b 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/patterns/F0Dialog/types.ts
+++ b/packages/react/src/patterns/F0Dialog/types.ts
@@ -12,23 +12,37 @@ export type DialogPosition = (typeof dialogPositions)[number]
 export const dialogWidths = ["sm", "md", "lg", "xl"] as const
 export type DialogWidth = (typeof dialogWidths)[number]
 
+/**
+ * A FOOTER ACTION IS A ROUTE OR A HANDLER.
+ *
+ * `href` makes the button a real link — cmd/middle-clickable, openable in a new
+ * tab, routed through the app's link provider — which is what an action that
+ * LEAVES the dialog should be: "Go to post", "Open in Contracts". `onClick` is
+ * for the ones that act on what the dialog is showing and stay put.
+ *
+ * Both together is a link that also reports the press (analytics, closing the
+ * dialog behind it). The same shape `DialogControls`' resource `url` already
+ * takes, for the same reason.
+ */
+type F0DialogActionTarget =
+  | { href: string; onClick?: () => void }
+  | { href?: never; onClick: () => void }
+
 export type F0DialogPrimaryAction = {
   label: string
   icon?: IconType
   iconPosition?: "left" | "right"
-  onClick: () => void
   disabled?: boolean
   loading?: boolean
-}
+} & F0DialogActionTarget
 
 export type F0DialogSecondaryAction = {
   label: string
   icon?: IconType
   iconPosition?: "left" | "right"
-  onClick: () => void
   disabled?: boolean
   loading?: boolean
-}
+} & F0DialogActionTarget
 
 // Shared base for action items used in multi-action dropdowns.
 // Note: disabled/loading on items are reserved for future use —