No Landlock, no seccomp, no helper: isolation is "same_user
(advisory)". The lease socket keeps two intents (close, format-upgrade
consent). The viewer holds the books open while it runs and gains a
Books menu: New books, Back up now, Restore (preview, then confirm),
Close, Connect Claude Code / Codex. New commands `wanderbooks books
back-up` and `wanderbooks connect claude|codex`. The scaffold
(`new`/`init` and its templates) is gone; install.sh needs no sudo.
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The server backs each book up itself: a per-book git archive, pushed
fast-forward only to a git remote and to a folder, when the books open,
after a quiet spell, before they close and on request; every commit,
push and drill is a record in ops/backup.jsonl. Drills clone each
target and verify the chain, the blobs, the vault and the head, weekly
and after a failure. `wanderbooks books restore` previews, then
restores beside or (with --replace) over, never moving books something
holds. The archive refuses anything but a plain bare repository and
pins git against the owner's configuration. books.backup and
books.back_up_now for the agent.
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`wanderbooks gui [BOOK]` finds the data root, reads settings from the
journal, the vault of the book, presence through ops/, Save a copy /
Open on every document, Save the W-9, the Export menu, and colour
schemes. One builder for the CPA package and the 1099 worksheet
(ledger-package), shared by the server and the viewer.
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Files reach the books through the server: uploads by hash and size,
then filed; exports (the CPA package, the 1099 worksheet, W-9s) handed
over as downloads from the server, never read off disk by the agent.
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Agent tokens (wb_ and 64 hex digits), one book and one name each, kept
only as SHA-256 in a chain log and in the OS keyring; made, listed and
revoked only through the admin socket (`wanderbooks token ...`). The
door checks them, scopes cover every tool, every call is in the access
log (fail closed), and the owner passphrase is an Argon2id hash.
Setup's terminal test waits for its prompts.
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One wanderbooks executable. The books are open while the viewer, an
agent session or a terminal holds them: a host process takes leases on
a socket, starts the server (the hidden mode `wanderbooks server`) with
a pipe on its input, and closes it 10 s after the last lease ends. No
background service. One host even in a race (run/host.lock).
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ledger_store::root: one private folder for every book, found without the
environment (--root, else the root setup recorded in a file only this
account can write, else the platform default under the home from the
password database). Every folder made 0700, files 0600; a root that is a
link, another user's, open to others, unmarked, or under a folder another
user could swap is refused; no error names it. Setup keeps a recorded
root, never makes a second root or moves books while one holds any, and
leaves a folder holding other things untouched. Books are created and
adopted one at a time; adoption reads the source under its writer lock
(changing nothing in it), copies into staging, re-hashes every stored
file against its name, checks every named file is there, opens and
verifies the copy with the source's head, imports settings for books
that keep none, syncs, and only then renames it into place.
wanderbooks setup makes the root and never prints where it is. Three
review rounds; mutation on the diff (docs/testing.md).
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The server and the viewer are libraries with run(prog, args), returning
Exit(code) instead of ending the process; ledger-mcp and ledger-gui are
one-line shims (the live books keep using them until the cutover).
wanderbooks dispatches dev-stdio and gui to them in-process; a mode must
come first and owns its flags. The gui feature (default) leaves the
viewer out of the server-only build, which just server-only builds,
clippies, tests, and checks for window libraries. The viewer's mutation
recipe is retired (owner, 2026-10-18); its two musts are tested
directly. Two review rounds; mutation on the diff (docs/testing.md).
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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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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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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: 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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New books dirs get .codex/hooks.json beside .claude/settings.json; both
SessionStart hooks run one justfile recipe, which reports the viewer's
state per [viewer] open_at_start (and opens it itself for "always").
Codex runs project hooks only once the dir is trusted and the hook
approved, so new --codex says so; AGENTS.md stays the fallback.
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The viewer offer (open_at_start) lived only in AGENTS.md, so it depended
on the agent remembering it on its first turn. The scaffold's
.claude/settings.json now runs just gui-status at session start and hands
the agent the result plus open_at_start.
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The scaffolded justfile now detaches the viewer (log in books-data/gui.log)
and won't open a second one for the same books. AGENTS.md tells the agent
to check gui-status at session start and follow open_at_start
(ask/always/never) in wanderbooks.toml.
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wanderbooks new --codex registers the books' MCP server with Codex (as
wanderbooks-<dir>) and starts Codex; the scaffolded justfile gains codex
and codex-setup. The site drops 'hire', says free up front, shows
Claude Code or Codex + wanderbooks = a complete bookkeeping system, and
explains MCP and cost in the FAQ.
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wanderbooks new DIR installs the server and GUI if missing, writes the
books dir (AGENTS.md + CLAUDE.md, wanderbooks.toml, justfile, .mcp.json,
.claude/settings.json approving the server), commits, and starts claude
onboarding. install.sh: Rust + cargo install + wanderbooks new in one
line. The tax summary labels its net when accounts are uncategorized.
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