The owner, 2026-10-18: one app to simplify installing and updating.
One wanderbooks executable whose modes run as separate processes; the
books open while the app, an agent session (its stdio bridge), a serve
terminal or a CLI command holds them, and close after the last (still
no background service); a signed, notarized dmg and a per-user Windows
installer that update themselves, AUR, apt, dnf and a self-updating
AppImage on Linux. New section 3.9 (leases, the helper's clean host
start, local sockets instead of TCP, restarts, one version at a time,
the server's format-upgrade gate); P2, P11 and the decisions follow.
Five review rounds, the last clean.
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The owner, 2026-10-18: no background service for now. wanderbooks serve
runs in a terminal (server plus archive process) until stopped; nothing
is installed to run in the background. P2's scope, cutover, tests,
limitations, user flows and P11 follow.
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The first company's P1 cutover found the K-1 worksheet printing a
member's share as typed: "50%" read from a settings file printed
0.50, the same share kept by the books as 0.5 printed 0.5. Shares now
print at least two places whatever their spelling.
Every company document now goes into the books (D-20, owner,
2026-10-17), and formation papers and plans print the company's EIN,
which the filing scan refused as a printed TIN. It now passes the
company's own EIN, as its settings hold it, printed 2-7, and nothing
else; a vault TIN is still refused (rules.md B-26). Its refusal no
longer suggests converting a file to get past it.
plan/served.md: D-20; correcting a record's source without changing
its words (P5).
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Many test helpers removed their temp dir only before the test, or only
on pass, so runs left them behind: 117,000 filled /tmp (RAM here) and
stopped a mutation run. Each now holds a guard that removes the dir on
drop, unwind included; servers started on a test dir hold its guard
until they stop. A full cargo test --workspace leaves 0 dirs (859
before). just sweep-test-tmp stays for runs killed mid-test.
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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.
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CI failed on a_file_swapped_after_the_check_is_never_read: its filesystem
handed the deleted checked file's inode number to the file made in its
place, so device and inode matched for another file. The opened file
must now also match the checked file's size, modification time and change
time. The test now models a real swap (the replacement exists before the
original goes), the reused-inode case, an in-place rewrite, and that the
unchanged file is read.
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Owner, 2026-10-17. D-19 settled: one installer and updater per
system; server, viewer and CLI ship together but stay separate
programs; no launcher; the viewer gains back up, export, restore and
new books (the last two through the server). P2 gains verified,
non-destructive restore onto new or existing installs, and restore
drills.
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plan/served.md: defect 21 (found in P0: the CPA package's
general-journal.iif ignores as_of, so an as-of package includes entries
dated after it; its xlsx and csv files respect it) joins the defect
count, P3 beside defect 7, and the P10 re-run; 5.6 records that the
first company's goldens are kept privately in its own books dir
(export_cpa_package zips plus a canonical JSON form made by its
goldens/canon.py, which normalizes per-export text, with the comparison
protocol in its README), not in this public repo, by decision.
plan/STATUS.md: P0 is in final review.
Review round 3: STATUS says what is true (P0 in final review, the
mutation runs done).
Adds defect 22 (depreciation through an asset's final month plugs to
the full amount mid-month) to P3 and to the P10 re-audit.
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docs/mcp-interface.md: the connect text and its budgets, the handbook
(tool and resources), annotations, failing closed, import_local_file's
roots and refusals, the set_w9 path rule and where TIN-bearing files may
go. docs/testing.md: the P0 laws and the tests that check them.
docs/architecture.md: the journal format gate and the server's
fail-closed store lock.
Round-2 review (2026-10-16): mcp-interface.md lists all 26 destructive
tools (unlink_receipt, unlink_attachment and correct_asset were missing)
and openWorldHint false on every tool; the connect text states the
parties rule and the exact receipt rule, and how it fits its budget; the
lint covers every refusal; the import roots refuse /, the home folder and
folders holding the books or a key, the open is a component walk, every
missing or outside path gets one refusal, and the TIN-file registry and
text scan (and what they can't catch) are described. architecture.md:
the frozen envelope, the lenient next-line prev, no repair of newer
books. testing.md: the new laws and tests. verification.md and
parity.md: P0 notes (no new law to prove, no status moved).
The TIN text check, narrowed (2026-10-16; rules.md B-26,
mcp-interface.md): text is refused for a TIN the vault holds, in its
common renderings, or a stand-alone printed SSN or EIN shape, so bank
exports go in; the oracle a vault comparison gives is recorded as a
known limit for P7. testing.md: the P0 mutation run of the final diff,
per crate, and how each survivor was resolved (killed by a named test,
removed by simpler code, or argued equivalent).
The probe bound (rules.md B-26, mcp-interface.md): rule (a) answers
for at most two candidates a filing, so finding a TIN from its last four
takes on the order of 50,000 refused filings; the open limit now names
that path, closed by P2's access log and P7's human-only TIN channel.
testing.md: the law and its tests; tin_files.rs mutated again, 74 of
74 caught.
Review round 3: rules.md B-28 (four-digit years, amounts a line can
carry, checked products, bounded recurring runs) and B-26/B-27 updates
(BOM-less UTF-16, when set_w9 records); mcp-interface.md matches the
code (25 destructive tools, the five idempotent ones, no reverse_entry
receipt checklist, strictly above the threshold, no tool text names
wanderbooks.toml, dot names and roots inside the books refused, the new
settings lists); testing.md lists the new laws and this round's
mutation run.
Review round 4: rules.md B-28 says the bounds are for new commands
only, replay accepts every line an earlier version accepted, and derived
figures refuse rather than panic; mcp-interface.md documents plan_error
and the nullable totals; testing.md lists the old-books contracts and this round's
mutation run (core, store, MCP, config, GUI).
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- The 13K-character instructions (clients cut them short) become a
connect text of at most 1,400 characters whose first 512 stand alone,
plus books.handbook and books://handbook/{section}: the old guidance by
section, with no helper commands, home paths, pull requests or
file-reading suggestions (tool_text_lint).
- Every tool has a title and read-only/destructive hints; no
requiresUserInteraction anywhere (owner decision 2026-10-16).
- books.import_local_file reads only regular files inside the import
roots (the downloads folder by default, or --import-root), never the
data dir, books dir, vault or the key's folder, no symlink escapes or
hard links, and the file opened must be the file checked.
- The store lock is a tokio mutex taken off the runtime threads.
- get_info refreshes settings first; a bare books://digest reads.
Review fixes (P0 review, 2026-10-16):
- Fail closed: a tokio mutex never poisons and spawn_blocking caught the
panic, so after a panic mid-mutation the server kept serving a Store
behind its journal. A panic (the task, or while holding the store)
now stops the shared store; every later request on every session is
refused with a plain message; a restart re-verifies the journal. The
join error goes through redact_refusal and never carries the panic's
text.
- books.set_w9 w9_file_path read any path (a link named w9.pdf to the
vault key was stored and get_w9 wrote it out): it now goes through the
import roots' lockdown, its type judged on the canonical path.
- Sealed even inside a root: the key file in force, where a linked one
leads, both folders, and the default key folder whatever the settings
say. Refusals check the roots first, so outside them every path gets
one message (no probing what exists); inside, other books-dir files say
to copy them out first.
- The open is O_NOFOLLOW | O_NONBLOCK (a pipe swapped in after the check
can't hang a thread) and must match the checked file's device and
inode. New dependency: libc (unix only), for those two open flags,
which std doesn't name.
- Default import roots are the downloads folder only (the plan); files
with full TINs (get_w9, vendor_1099 include_tins, the CPA package with
TINs) are never written into an import root, and the server refuses to
import any file it wrote with TINs (by SHA-256).
- set_tin and set_w9 overwrite vault records: destructive_hint = true;
annotations_complete pins the key tools' hints. The read-only hint is
checked in behaviour on every spec_mcp call (journal and data-dir files
unchanged).
- Text: the connect text names the settings file as the one local file
to edit, says every entry balances on real accounts and names its
party, says invoice/bill/payment/payroll tools post unchecked, rewords
the exemptions, and shows the company name as one plain line; the
handbook takes section "all", lists its ids in the schema and says to
read contract first; books.settings drops the config.json path and no
error names the data dir or the key file. tool_text_lint covers the
whole tool JSON and resources and bans git/commit/WL-0001; tool
descriptions over 700 characters are pinned to today's eight (P5).
- digest: an empty since= is bare; the default date is pinned on every
day of a month.
Round-2 review fixes (2026-10-16):
- TIN files (B-26): the in-memory, per-session set of TIN-file hashes
became one registry beside the vault (vault/tin-files.sha256, hashes
only), shared by every session and every later server. It holds the
W-9 set_w9 reads (recorded as read), get_w9 copies, 1099 worksheets
with TINs, CPA packages with TINs and each file in one that holds a
TIN; a file is recorded before it is written, and a failure refuses.
import_local_file, attach_receipt and file_document (base64 was never
checked) refuse a recorded file, and a text file (by type, name, or
UTF-8/UTF-16 decoding) holding a full TIN. Not caught: an altered
binary copy; the docs say so (P2/P7 remove the path tools).
- The text check is narrow (owner/engineer decision, 2026-10-16: bank
exports are filed for reconciliation, and has_full_tin's "nine digits
however separated" refused their routing numbers, long references and
dates run into amounts). Text is refused when it holds (a) a TIN the
vault holds for a party, anywhere, as nine digits, 3-2-4 joined by
hyphens, spaces or dots, or 2-7 joined by a hyphen or space, compared
on the server against the decrypted vault and never returned or
logged (a vault that can't be opened leaves (b)); or (b) a stand-alone
printed SSN (123-45-6789) or EIN (12-3456789) shape: no digit, and no
hyphen or dot followed by a digit, beside it. Full-width digits and
Unicode hyphens and spaces read as ASCII. has_full_tin still guards
refusals and results (redact_refusal). Known limit, for P7: a refusal
under (a) tells the agent a text it chose holds a vault TIN.
New dependency: zeroize in ledger-mcp (already in the workspace
through ledger-vault, same major version), so the vault's TINs decoded
for the scan are wiped from memory on drop as the vault's own are.
- Mutation testing of the final P0 diff (docs/testing.md): tests for
each law a survivor broke (handbook titles, a dropped default root, a
.jpg W-9, the waker, the walk's folder flags against a link and a
pipe, the 40-link limit, save paths refused as such, the package
marking only its TIN files, a registry that can't be read, text types,
the short receipt rule's counts and a 12-character code). Simpler
code where only a race could tell: inspect places an existing path by
canonicalize itself (no second comparison), read_checked's read limit
is its one size check, openat fails on -1 as specified. The 25 MiB
upload test removes its 50 MB of books however it ends.
- The GUI's stale-rule prompt no longer says to open a pull request: it
asks the agent to find the figure from the rule's official authority,
confirm it with the human, pass it explicitly, and tell the human so it
can be reported upstream (as the handbook says); a lib test pins it and
bans files, git, GitHub and pull requests from every attention prompt.
- Import roots (local_files.rs INVARIANT 0): XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/"
made $HOME (or /) the root. No root may be /, the home folder or hold
it, or hold the books, data dir, vault or a key: a named one stops the
server at startup, a default one is dropped; the default falls back to
~/Downloads only if that is a real folder other than $HOME; with no
root, an import says so.
- The read is a component walk from / with openat(O_NOFOLLOW |
O_DIRECTORY) per folder and O_NOFOLLOW | O_NONBLOCK for the file, so a
folder swapped for a link after the check fails; no step may land on a
protected inode (one renamed into a root); dev/ino and nlink stay. No
/proc. Portable to macOS. (libc's openat, two small unsafe blocks.)
- One refusal for missing, dangling and outside paths: resolved()
follows every link, dangling ones too, so a link's target existing or
not no longer changes the answer.
- Sealing: the key files (in force, default) and their targets always;
their folders only when not $HOME, not a root, not holding a root; and
~/.config/wanderbooks whatever XDG_CONFIG_HOME says.
- Agent text (I-12): RuleNotKnown names the authority (IRS, with its
address) and says to tell the human, never a repo path, PR or GitHub;
the digest's stale_rules drop the repo catalog and path for it; vault,
outside-books, STOPPED and local-file refusals name no git, path or
flag. tool_text_lint bans docs/, .md, /home, data dir, --data-dir,
--import-root, vault.key, .jsonl, sqlite, .gitignore, github, pull
request, and also lints every error template (scanned from source),
built error texts, and the server's refusal constants.
- The receipt rule told (ReceiptPolicy::rule) is the one enforced: the
exact threshold in the base currency (no "$", no rounding), required
and exempt accounts, reversals exempt; the connect text fits 1,400
characters by dropping reasons, then codes, never the rule.
- The connect text follows the parties setting; "offer books.digest"
everywhere. shown_name drops Unicode format characters (bidi, zero
width).
- read_only_tools_change_nothing compares file contents, the database
by every row, the vault and the settings file (raw database bytes did
not change either; rows are the stable comparison).
- import_local_file takes the name and type from the canonical path;
the digest's journal repair says when the tail was set aside, not the
journal's file name; "version-history messages" back in the TIN rule;
openWorldHint false on every tool, pinned in annotations_complete.
- Outside the MCP crate, for the same texts: ledger-core's DatedRule
gains `authority` (the statute or publication with its address) and
RuleNotKnown carries it; ledger-store's "sqlite error" reads "database
error"; ledger-config's ReceiptPolicy::rule takes the base currency.
New dev-dependency: rusqlite in ledger-mcp (already in the workspace,
same version and features as ledger-store), to read the database's
rows in read_only_tools_change_nothing.
- The filing scan is no TIN oracle (tin_files.rs INVARIANT 4): text
holding more than two TIN-shaped numbers (any rendering rule (a)
reads) that end in a known TIN's last four (the books' TIN and W-9
facts, via known_tin_last4, before the vault is opened; then the
vault's own) is refused with TIN_PROBE, the same words whether or not
one is the vault's TIN; only one or two candidates are compared
against the vault. Tests: unit
text_probing_for_a_tin_is_refused_alike_whether_or_not_it_holds_it,
one_or_two_candidates_are_compared_against_the_vault; over HTTP
text_probing_for_a_tin_is_refused_alike_by_every_filing_tool.
Plan: plan/served.md P0, section 6 "Immediate hole (P0)", 4.1, 4.3, 4.9.
Review round 3. S1: a panic stops the server for every session, so no
input may reach one. Dates are four-digit years (new ledger_core::
calendar, 0001-01-01..9999-12-31): the MCP's parse_date is strict
YYYY-MM-DD, periods are bounded, last_day_of_month returns a refusal
(server and store); schedules, assets, recurring entries, periods,
documents, disposals and entries refuse dates outside the calendar, and
replay refuses such journal dates. Every amount a command takes is at
most a line's (draft lines by size, document lines, payouts, payroll,
statements, shares, tax basis, proceeds, recurring templates), on
replay too, so sums are exact; the 1099 vendor part and the K-1
property share use checked products (TooLargeToCompute); a recurring
run makes at most 1,000 drafts. tests/hostile_args.rs drives every tool
with schema-derived hostile arguments and every resource with generated
URIs, asserting the server never stops; the audit's panics are pinned.
S2: a `.` or `..` path name is refused as NO_SUCH_FILE up front. S3:
NUL-interleaved UTF-16 without a byte-order mark is scanned both ways.
S4: resource-read refusals are TIN-redacted. S5: set_w9 records its W-9
only once the call passes every check, just before the vault write.
S8: idempotentHint only on verify, run_depreciation, run_schedules,
run_recurring, set_party_roles (a repeat leaves journal and vault
alone; spec_vault checks every candidate twice); every tool's hints
pinned in one table. C1: books.settings lists receipt_required_accounts
and receipt_exempt_accounts uncut. C2: the default company name reads
"a new company". C3: the parties rule names no-party reasons. C4/C5:
the handbook names the settings file only as books.settings' books_toml,
and restores "check books.digest and offer it". C6: an import root
inside the books, data dir or vault is refused at startup. The lint
catches `just` however it ends and where the books are;
digest_resource_bare_reads reads the server's month.
Review round 4 (2026-10-17): round 3's bounds ran in replay too, so
journals main wrote and reopened (an entry dated 0000-06-01 or
+10000-01-01, a draft line of 2e15, an asset ending past 9999, a basis
or share past the line limit, sub-cent document and payroll lines) no
longer opened. Posted is forever: the bounds are the commands' only.
- Replay applies main's rule exactly: parse_date takes any date chrono
reads; replay_add_line(_fx) has no size bound (add_line/add_line_fx
do); replay_register_asset/correct_asset (chrono overflow only),
replay_set_asset_tax_basis (check_journaled), replay_set_entry_parties
(check_shares_journaled), replay_register_recurring
(validate_recurring_journaled), replay_register_schedule (months 1 to
600), replay_create_period (order only), replay_dispose_asset, and no
line, date, payment or payroll range checks in replay_invoice/bill,
their payments and replay_payroll_run.
- Derived figures over such books refuse (TooLargeToCompute,
DateOutOfRange), never panic: amortization plans, depreciation into
chrono's last month (and the true-up for lives past 9999), intervals,
document totals and aging, net pay and payroll plans, money flows and
share resolution, the asset register, receipt-policy debits; the MCP
tools and the viewer show what can't be computed.
- tests/fixtures/old-books: the review's 13 journals, its control and 15
more edges, written by main's Store API with main's figures
(expected.json); every one opens in the writer and the viewer to those
figures, every derived figure computes or refuses, every MCP tool and
GUI page answers; hostile_args restarts the server after each
property; each bound has a command/replay test pair.
Final review: a schedule's plan refuses a total of 10^26 or more
(TooLargeToCompute) instead of letting Decimal round its cents silently,
and a null `remaining` in the schedule output is always explained by
plan_error. Replay is unaffected: no journaled schedule month can belong
to a total that large (the line limit bounds every posted month).
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An unknown event type on a whole, chained line, or a journal.format_set
declaring a newer journal format, now raises StoreError::NewerJournal
(update wanderbooks) instead of JournalCorrupt. Corruption (bad hash,
seq, or JSON) is still corruption. The gate runs in the store, the
Snapshot and the GUI, after each line's parse, seq and hash checks, and
never skips a line it can't read. Adds the journal.format_set event
(format 1 today; nothing writes it yet) and a registry of every event
type this version reads, tested against the replay and projection arms.
Review fixes (P0 review, 2026-10-16):
- A line's own hash is checked only by the next line's prev, and the
gate used to refuse a line before reading the next: a flipped bit in a
middle line's type (or a format_set edited from 1 to 2) was reported
as "newer, the books are not damaged". Now the reader settles every
refusal against the next line (format::settle): a next line that
doesn't chain makes it corrupt; one that chains makes it newer and
verified; with no next line the message says "newer or damaged; update,
then run verify", never "not damaged" (NewerJournal.verified).
- A newer format number is judged newer before its features are parsed:
a newer format may shape them differently.
- Snapshot treats a blank complete line as corrupt, as the writer does.
- docs/spec/rules.md B-27, which the code cites, now exists.
Round-2 review fixes (2026-10-16):
- The envelope {seq, ts, type, payload, prev} and its hash (SHA-256 of
the canonical JSON) are frozen across formats (rules.md B-27); new
fields go in payload. settle reads only the next line's prev, leniently,
so a newer format's next line (a float, a string seq, keys of its own)
is never called corrupt: no readable prev means unverified newer.
- A key beside the envelope's was silently dropped (and the chain then
broke as "corrupt"): it is now NewerJournal, hashed over the raw
canonical JSON so the next line still checks it; JournalLine::parse
refuses such a line.
- "the books are not damaged" overclaimed: a verified refusal says line N
is intact and this version can't check the lines after it.
- The writer read the journal with BufRead::lines (invalid UTF-8 was an
I/O error); it now splits bytes on newlines as the Snapshot does, so a
non-UTF-8 line is JournalCorrupt in both.
- Store::open truncated a torn tail before the gate ran, altering newer
books (perhaps mid-append) before refusing them. The gate now runs over
the complete lines first; the tail is set aside (and journaled) only
when they pass.
- Mutation testing (docs/testing.md, P0): the viewer and the writer say
the same words about the same damaged line (the newline is no part of
it); read_journal_and_format returns every line and the format in
force; the journal page tells a format declaration.
Plan: plan/served.md P0 and 5.1.
Review round 3 (S6, S7). Store::open replays every complete line in
memory (the first line's currency, then the ledger) before a cut-off
last line is set aside, so a complete line the books can't apply
refuses the open with the journal byte for byte as it was and nothing
set aside (B-27 SCENARIO 3; test
a_bad_complete_line_before_a_torn_tail_leaves_the_journal_as_it_was);
catch_up now only projects. The viewer
applies the writer's first-line rule (created_currency, shared) instead
of guessing USD: any other first line, or a store.created without a
sound base_currency, is corrupt to both (test
the_first_line_is_store_created_for_the_viewer_and_the_writer). fuzz_store_replay varies the
first line (14,696 runs clean).
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mise.toml: pin cargo-mutants 27.1.0 and cargo-fuzz 0.13.2 (the latest
published, and what is installed) instead of "latest", so mutation and
fuzz runs repeat (plan/served.md I-13, P0).
docs/mcp-interface.md: the spec had two Transports sections, and the
first claimed bearer-token auth on Streamable HTTP. There is none: the
server uses rmcp's default config, whose only guard is a Host check for
localhost, 127.0.0.1 and ::1, with no token and no Origin check. One
section now says so plainly and points to plan/served.md P2 for auth.
ledger-cli AGENTS.md template: "the journal is the evidence - read it,
don't guess" led an agent to cat the journal file instead of asking the
books. The template now says to trace a figure through books.get_entry,
books.search_entries, or books.export (journal or general_ledger), and a
new bullet says the books are reached only through the wanderbooks MCP
tools: never open, list or parse the books' files, not even to look; if
a tool can't answer, say so. The other lines that sent the agent to the
data dir go too: onboarding is triggered by an empty books.chart instead
of a missing journal.jsonl, the CPA paragraph drops the ledger-gui
--data-dir books-data command, and the backup note no longer names the
journal's path. Test agents_md_reaches_the_books_only_through_tools
pins this; agents_md_carries_the_contract no longer expects journal.jsonl.
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Records where the Served work stopped on 2026-10-16 (owner's usage
credits): which P0 pieces are done, which are work in progress in which
jj workspace, how to resume, and where the before-snapshots of the first
company's reports live.
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The 2026-10-16 audit of the first company's books found an agent reading
the journal file directly, the instructions truncated by clients, and 20
engine defects. plan/served.md is the plan to fix all of it: the books
become a server that owns its data, every agent reaches them only
through the MCP from any directory or client, settings and conventions
move into the journal, and the scaffold goes away. Phases P0-P10, ending
with a full re-audit through the MCP alone.
Chosen from three independent designs by a three-judge panel, then
revised for the owner's decisions: books kept as the user in a private
data root (advisory isolation, labelled so; enforcement is the self-host
deployment), the viewer reads the data directly, no added permission
prompts, self-hosting now and multi-tenant hosting later.
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Every crumb above the page you're on links to where it names: the
section goes to its home (Parties › Stephen Waits → Parties), and a
reconciliation's trail runs Accounts › its account › it. Same look; a
pointer and "Go to …" on hover. A crumb naming the current page isn't a
link.
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The party page's "TIN on file" and the W-9 card's TIN copy the full,
formatted number on click (right-click: digits only). The viewer reads
it from the vault only at that moment, with the server's key file in
force, never creates a key, refuses a key inside the books dir, and
never draws more than the last four. A locked vault copies nothing and
says why.
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Regulators and registries that don't tax the company (a division of
corporations, a licensing board), distinct from tax_agency. Core Role,
MCP descriptions, viewer label/noun/icon, docs, and tests.
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An independent recompute of the real books found no numeric
disagreements; review found 15 defects, all fixed with spec-first
regression tests:
- k1: a prepaid credited straight to capital is property; a member
paying a vendor through 2100 is cash. Docs and B-13 match.
- parties: a reversal of a reversal counts on its root's side;
liability-to-liability payments (member pays the card) count as paid.
- viewer: party money uses the server's cash accounts and full calendar
year; per-party "What for" scales multi-party entries.
- reconciliations: refuse a withdrawn statement before journaling; new
books.void_statement; reconciled lines can't be un-cleared; one shared
reconcilable-accounts rule for digest and viewer.
- CPA package includes receipts linked to entries; a file can't be both
filed on and linked to one entry.
- parties = "require" covers payroll, tax remittance (agency) and
disposal (buyer); no-party marks follow reversal chains and clear when
a vendor is tagged.
- derived member shares are frozen to exact amounts when posted, so a
settings change never re-splits history.
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Entries may name several parties, each with an exact amount, a percent,
or a share derived from the members' capital lines or [[company.members]]
shares (entry.parties_set); shares always sum exactly. The 1099
worksheet counts a vendor's share. A member's party page is their
partner capital statement, from the same ledger_core::k1 source as the
CPA package.
books.set_tin stores any party's TIN (members' SSNs for K-1s) in the
vault (party.tin_set, last four in the books). The CPA package carries a
K-1 member worksheet (k1-members.csv, with a members' total that ties to
Schedule L) and the 1099 worksheet with full TINs, saved outside the
books only. files_jointly_with notes spouses' two K-1s land on one 1040.
Adversarial review fixes: reversed contributions no longer inflate K-1
contributions and distributions; a K-1 row never takes another party's
TIN; TIN detection covers dot/slash/dash separators; refusals redact
TINs; vendor tagging can't silently replace shared parties; reversals
follow re-apportioning.
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ledger_core::parties::entry_flow: cash lines count; liability lines count
except the part paired against cash in the same entry, which counts once
as paid to the liability's creditor (or received from a lender). A
reimbursement to the members no longer nets to zero. What-for breakdown
comes from the same function and sums to the net exactly.
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MCP: books.link_attachment, unlink_attachment, attachments; link_to on
attach_receipt and file_document; record_statement, statements;
books.reconcile previews and, confirmed against a recorded statement,
records the reconciliation; void_reconciliation, reconciliations;
import_bank_csv links its source file; digest lists unreconciled
accounts.
TIN vault: books.set_w9 takes the TIN and the form into the encrypted
vault (last four in the books); books.vendor_1099 include_tins and
save_csv_to for the CPA's copy; books.get_w9; books.purge_tin. A leak
test scans every tool output, the journal, the database, and the blobs.
[books] parties = off | suggest | require (default suggest): every
preview names the entry's party or suggests likely ones; require refuses
to post until it names one or is marked as having none (entry.no_party).
Viewer: documents on every subject page; statements and reconciliation
history per account; reconciliation pages; reconcile and
no-counterparty attention items; party money by period (paid out,
received in, net, what for, by month); Needs attention gets its own
full-width section.
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Parties: one directory for vendors, contractors, customers, employees,
members, platforms, agencies, banks, landlords (ledger-core parties.rs).
W-9/W-4 facts without the number (last four only; any nine-digit run in a
party field is refused, Treas. Reg. 301.6109-4). Vendor and customer
records link to parties on replay; core tags every bill, invoice, payment,
and reversal with its counterparty. Journal events party.*,
entry.party_set; payroll lines name the employee party.
MCP: books.add_party, update_party, set_party_roles, set_w9, set_w4,
parties, party, set_entry_party; draft_entry party; run_payroll employee;
show party. Viewer: Parties directory and party pages, search, journal
text, W-9 attention, demo data.
One definition of a party's money (ledger_core::parties::activity) for
MCP and viewer. 1099 amounts count payments from cash and financing
accounts (a member paying for the company counts; a card doesn't; a
prepayment counts when made): vendor_1099_report_with, B-19.
Store: attachment links to any subject, statements, reconciliations
(schema v11), with replay and projection. ledger-vault: encrypted TIN and
W-9 records (ChaCha20-Poly1305, key file outside the books).
Spec-blind tests for parties (core, store, MCP, viewer) and attachments.
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- core: TaxBasisRule (cost IRC 1012, carryover IRC 723, personal-use conversion Treas. Reg. 1.168(i)-4(b)), TaxBasis with the contributor's adjusted basis, Asset::tax_basis and ::built_in_gain (IRC 704(c)); the register gains tax rule, contributor basis, tax basis, built-in gain, total tax basis, missing count (rules.md B-25; sources vendored in docs/spec/sources/irs-partnership-basis.md)
- store: asset.tax_basis_set journaled, replayed, projected (schema v10)
- mcp: books.set_asset_tax_basis; register_asset takes tax_basis_rule and contributor_basis, checked before anything registers (found by the spec-blind suite); list_assets and the register export (json, csv) carry tax basis; instructions say to record it for every asset
- import: the register's XLSX and PDF gain the federal tax basis table with citations
- viewer: tax basis on the Assets page, the asset page (a Tax basis card), the report, the journal, and Needs attention for assets without one
- just: check and the mutation recipes sweep this user's test book dirs older than an hour (killed runs had left 23 GB in RAM-backed /tmp)
- docs: the parties, attachments, TIN vault, completeness engine, and updates designs (docs/parties-and-attachments.md)
- tests: spec-blind tax basis suites in core, store, MCP; register PDF/XLSX and viewer tests
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The acquisition link was added after the viewer's asset work and showed its raw event name in recent activity. The new test reads the event types from the store's replay arms, so the next new event without text fails it (checked: it fails without this fix).
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- core: asset tags (generated PREFIX-0001 or the human's own; unique ignoring case; never reused by another asset) and serial numbers (rules.md B-24); a journaled link from an asset to the entry that acquired it (posted, unreversed, debiting the cost account); fixed_asset_register(as_of), reconciled to the GL (unposted depreciation, unregistered cost)
- store: asset.tagged, asset.serial_set, asset.acquisition_linked journaled, replayed, projected (schema v9); differs_from now also compares control roles and tag history
- config: [books] asset_tag_prefix, default the company's initials without legal-form words
- import: Avery 5160/8160 label sheets with QR codes (geometry vendored from Avery, docs/spec/sources/avery-5160.md); the register as XLSX and PDF
- mcp: register_asset tags (and links) automatically; books.label_asset, books.asset_labels; asset tools take a tag; books.show asset / assets page / register report; export fixed_asset_register (json, csv, xlsx, pdf) and in the CPA package
- viewer: Assets page (register, reconciliation), asset page (identity, schedule posted vs not, entries, documents), Fixed asset register report, global search by tag/serial/description, journal text, needs-attention items
- fix: verify compared snapshot amounts as strings; a zero total summed in hash-map order could print "0" or "0.00", so agreeing books failed verify at random. Now by value (regression test)
- tests: spec-blind suites for tags, register, prefix, store, MCP; label and register PDF/XLSX tests; viewer tests
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- core: ControlAccount keys, Ledger::assign_role/check_assign_role/role_account (rules.md B-23): one account per role, of the role's type, balance sheet roles move only when empty; invoices, bills, payroll, remittance, and closes post to the assigned account; an assigned role frees its default code for renumbering
- store: role.assigned journaled and replayed (strict account_id)
- mcp: settings.rs reloads by content at the start of each request, keeps the last good settings on a broken edit; books.settings with chart problems; digest settings_problems; instructions say when to edit the toml
- viewer: journal text for role.assigned
- cli: full example wanderbooks.toml, tested to load with every example uncommented
- tests: spec_roles.rs (25, spec-blind), store roles.rs (6), MCP reload/problems/roles, settings unit tests
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A payroll tax remittance was journaled as a plain entry, so the viewer
labeled it "Journal entry" and, at a 0.00 threshold, flagged it as
missing a receipt (the server posts it without one, like a payroll
run). The store now names it with payroll.taxes_remitted, as it names
runs with payroll.run; replay and the projection pass over it, and the
viewer's journal page describes it.
tests/view_model.rs: the cash history is never empty when cash moved
and ends on the last day it did; the prior month runs to the same day;
burn averages over only the months the books cover, half away from
zero; cash accounts found by name when the settings name none; card
accounts; each entry's accounts debits first, once each; only what
arrived since the last refresh is fresh; integrity counts files again
without rereading them; the invoice's customer, the bill payment's
vendor, payroll and remittance origins.
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profit_and_loss_by_class re-added every posted entry in the range,
closing entries included: after closing January, its by-class P&L for
January showed an unclassified row of the whole period's net income,
negated. Closing entries are left out, as profit_and_loss_for_period
leaves them out.
tests/oracle_mcp.rs (24 tests): every export (CSV, JSON, XLSX, PDF,
IIF) against ledger-core's reports on the same books; the CPA package's
contents; P&L by class; the 1099 worksheet; disposals; depreciation;
payroll remittance; the digest against the journal; books.show's viewer
commands; resources; receipts and documents round-tripping; the 25 MiB
upload limit; bank import sides; reference resolution; partial FX lines;
preview balances. Written against the mutation run's 126 survivors.
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year_earnings counted every closing entry dated this year against this
year's income, but a close takes all unclosed income through its end,
earlier years included. A partnership closing January after an unclosed
December printed "Net income (loss)" -969 for a year earning +730, and
the closed December as "Undistributed earnings, prior years". The
unclosed part is now the income after the last close, from no earlier
than the fiscal year's start (closes are cumulative).
Unit tests: the 25 MiB upload limit, YYYY-MM periods, config_mentions
for every setting naming a code, report members, year earnings before
and after a close, and which entries may lose their last receipt.
tests/startup.rs: --help, the default data dir under HOME, settings
read from beside the books, and a held lock refused after the wait
instead of waited on forever.
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Kpis gets a spec (cash, liabilities, receivables, month-to-date against
the same days of last month, fiscal year to date, burn). tests/view_model.rs
computes each from ledger-core on random books (month ends, leap days,
any fiscal start) along with the period ranges, cash history, account
labels, journal count, receipt rule, origins and parties, the blob
root, and integrity counts. Burn rounds half away from zero, like the
rest of wanderbooks (it was banker's rounding).
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Company details (EIN, state number, address, every profile value), an
entry's number and amount, an account's code and balance, a document's
file name and SHA-256 copy on click: a pointer and copy icon on hover,
a check for a moment after. Amounts copy as their exact plain decimal
(fmt::plain: no "$", commas, or parentheses; "-" for negatives); where a
click already drills down (report cells, register and transaction rows,
general ledger lines), a right-click menu copies the amounts, the entry
number, or the description. The sidebar's chain check copies the
journal head and data folder.
tests/copy.rs: every display style copies back to the exact value
(property), and clicking the EIN, an entry's amount, and its number puts
exactly that on the clipboard.
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just mutants* points TMPDIR at ~/.cache for cargo-mutants' tree copies;
the tests inherited it and synced every journal append to disk, several
times slower per mutant. Cargo's [env] reaches the tests it runs, not
cargo-mutants, so the copies stay in the cache.
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Read in the ASC basic view and vendored as short quotes with paragraph
numbers (docs/spec/sources/fasb-asc.md). Depreciation: any systematic and
rational allocation of cost less salvage (360-10-35-4); prepaids are
current assets with no prescribed expensing method (340-10-05-4,
210-10-45-1/2); cash flows gross and classified three ways, owners'
advances financing (230-10-45-7/10/14(b)/15(b)); a principal's revenue
is gross (606-10-55-37B). Citation fixed: 230-10-45-14(b), not (2).
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tests/read_only.rs: with every file and folder of the books read-only on
disk, the viewer loads, follows live, and renders every page (receipts
included), and every file keeps its bytes, size, and mtime; on writable
books nothing appears beside the database either.
Found: with no writer running, the snapshot's read-only open of the WAL
database had to create -wal/-shm (a write into the books) and failed on
read-only books, showing a false "database unreadable". With no -wal
file no writer has it open, so check_disk now reads it immutable.
just mutants-gui sweeps only what the viewer must get right: the view
model's numbers (books.rs) and their formatting (fmt.rs); 179 mutants.
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