P1: the books keep how they are kept

Settings, conventions (posting templates, approval rules, policies,
close steps, calendar, mappings, notes), decisions, open items and
entry approvals are journal events (journal format 2). Books that keep
their settings never read wanderbooks.toml or config.json; the server
and the viewer take the vault key from --vault-key-file instead.
books.import_settings moves a settings file in once, exactly as the
server reads it. Approval rules, when enforced, gate every posting
path. Replay refuses what it can't read as newer, never as corrupt.

Lean: a record changes no figure. Mutation on the whole diff: every
survivor killed by a test but two equivalent (docs/testing.md). The
Company page says a late open item is overdue in words, not colour
alone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T3gXMVt7XJPi6ens1or9Dj

crates/ledger-mcp/tests/spec_mcp.rs

@@ -219,6 +219,16 @@ fn spawn_child(dir: &Path, toml: &Path) -> Child {
         .arg(dir.join("books-data"))
         .arg("--books-toml")
         .arg(toml)
+        // A settings file naming the vault's key (the happy path's) names
+        // it on the command line too, as books that move their settings
+        // in must.
+        .args(
+            std::fs::read_to_string(toml)
+                .is_ok_and(|t| t.contains("[vault]"))
+                .then(|| ["--vault-key-file".into(), outside(dir).join("vault.key")])
+                .into_iter()
+                .flatten(),
+        )
         // Local files come only from here (the default is the downloads
         // folder): never the books, never where the server writes.
         .arg("--import-root")
@@ -1093,6 +1103,77 @@ fn happy_path(name: &str) -> Mcp {
         json!({"period_id": p, "confirmed": true}),
     );
 
+    // How the books are kept: start, conventions, decisions, open items,
+    // a template and an approval, and the settings file moving in.
+    m.ok("books.start", json!({}));
+    m.ok("books.start", json!({"focus": "close"}));
+    m.ok("books.conventions", json!({}));
+    m.ok("books.decisions", json!({}));
+    m.ok("books.open_items", json!({}));
+    m.ok(
+        "books.set_convention",
+        json!({"id": "note-1", "kind": "note", "title": "A note",
+               "body_md": "Kept for the test.", "decided_by": "A"}),
+    );
+    m.ok(
+        "books.set_convention",
+        json!({"id": "contribution", "kind": "posting_template",
+               "title": "Joint contribution",
+               "body_md": "Cash in from both members, half each.",
+               "structured": {"lines": [
+                   {"account": "1000", "side": "debit", "share": "1"},
+                   {"account": "3000", "side": "credit", "share": "0.5"},
+                   {"account": "3001", "side": "credit", "share": "0.5"}]},
+               "decided_by": "A", "decided_on": "2026-10-16"}),
+    );
+    let drafted = m.ok(
+        "books.draft_from_template",
+        json!({"template_id": "contribution", "date": "2026-06-01",
+               "amount": "100.01", "no_party_reason": "between the members"}),
+    );
+    m.ok(
+        "books.approve_entry",
+        json!({"entry_id": drafted["entry_id"], "approver": "A"}),
+    );
+    m.ok(
+        "books.retire_convention",
+        json!({"id": "note-1", "reason": "Done with it.", "decided_by": "A"}),
+    );
+    m.ok("books.conventions", json!({"include_retired": true}));
+    m.ok(
+        "books.record_decision",
+        json!({"subject": "Basis", "decision_md": "Accrual.",
+               "decided_by": ["A", "B"], "decided_on": "2026-01-01"}),
+    );
+    m.ok("books.decisions", json!({"include_superseded": true}));
+    let item = m.ok(
+        "books.raise_item",
+        json!({"title": "Mail the letter", "due": "2026-11-01", "decided_by": "A"}),
+    )["id"]
+        .as_u64()
+        .unwrap();
+    m.ok(
+        "books.resolve_item",
+        json!({"id": item, "resolution": "Mailed.", "decided_by": "A"}),
+    );
+    m.ok("books.open_items", json!({"include_resolved": true}));
+    let toml_text = std::fs::read_to_string(&toml).unwrap();
+    m.ok(
+        "books.import_settings",
+        json!({"toml_text": toml_text, "decided_by": "A"}),
+    );
+    m.ok(
+        "books.import_settings",
+        json!({"toml_text": toml_text, "decided_by": "A", "confirmed": true}),
+    );
+    m.ok(
+        "books.set_setting",
+        json!({"changes": [{"key": "company.timezone", "value": "America/Denver"}],
+               "decided_by": "A"}),
+    );
+    m.ok("books.export_settings", json!({}));
+    m.ok("books.start", json!({}));
+
     // The handbook: its index, and a section.
     m.ok("books.handbook", json!({}));
     m.ok("books.handbook", json!({"section": "contract"}));