spec_mcp's inv1 walks every tool once and fails on any the books never
answered: the happy path now creates an invoice that will not be paid,
uploads the collection letter, and writes it off with the evidence in the
same call, so books.write_off_invoice's output schema is checked like
every other tool's.
rules.md B-41 states the write-off: the direct method the owner chose
(A-5), Dr 6990 / Cr 1200 with the receivable tagged, at most what is
owed and at most the least owed from that day on (a partial write-off as
§1.166-3(a) allows), refused on cash-basis books (§1.166-1(e)), its
evidence filed in the same call (§1.166-2(a)); bills are never written
off (ASC 405-20-40-1); and a recovery is not a new movement (D-49): the
same year, reverse the write-off and record the payment; a later year, a
plain entry to a bad-debt-recoveries revenue account, the invoice staying
written off (IRC §111).
bookspec states B-41 for the first time and gives B-38 its example: two
new examples, bad-debt-direct-write-off (two partial write-offs of one
invoice, the balances and the trial balance worked by hand) and
arap-hand-control-posting-refused (a hand line an earlier version wrote
replays, the same line written today is refused). The example schema
gains the dated write_off event, lets a refused entry say so (an entry
posts whole or not at all; older and refused never combine), and its
refusal vocabulary gains untagged_control_line, B-38's control guard.
The registers: docs/architecture.md names the new tool group;
docs/receipt-store.md lists invoice.written_off and what replay does with
it; docs/parity.md records the slice (no row changes status, the floor
stands); docs/testing.md records every test and what P12 must mutate;
docs/verification.md the two Lean theorems and what they cover.
No figure moves: no golden file changed.
The viewer's invoice page already drew a WriteOff movement; now the
fixture proves it: a written-off invoice reads Written off, owes nothing,
and its timeline's "Written off" row opens the entry (the screenshot
invoice-written-off).
Needs attention gains the one item the tax rule asks for: a write-off
made this calendar year is listed, one per invoice, as "Write-off
awaiting the CPA's note", with what was written off, the day, and the
prompt that opens the document. Whether a debt is worthless, and in
which year, is a tax judgment that stays with the CPA (plan 8.3.16); the
books flag it and keep the evidence beside it until the year ends. The
item is computed in ledger-package's one attention function, so the
viewer and books.start see it alike; view_model.rs compares the two reads
on the same books.
The handbook's invoices-and-bills section starts here (S4.5 adds the
issue, terms and payment steps around it): step 4 says when to void, to
write off, or to reverse, and the recovery procedures D-49 records — the
same year, reverse the write-off and record the payment; a later year, a
plain entry to a bad-debt-recoveries revenue account, the invoice staying
written off (IRC §111).
Tests: a_write_off_shows_on_the_timeline,
a_write_off_is_flagged_for_the_cpa.
One tool for the bad debt (rules.md B-41): it writes off an invoice that
will not be collected, Dr 6990 Bad Debt Expense / Cr 1200 Accounts
Receivable, the receivable line tagged with the invoice so the document
reads written_off and its figures stay derived (B-38).
The evidence is the point, and the tool takes exactly one of
upload_id (an upload, filed with the write-off) and
existing_attachment_id (one already filed, linked to the write-off's
entry and the invoice); neither or both is refused. amount defaults to
what the invoice owes and may be partial.
Without confirmed it is a preview: the engine runs on a clone (every
refusal the post would give) and the answer is the figures the write-off
would leave, entry_id 0, nothing journaled.
The tool lives in its own group file, tools/write_offs.rs (plan U0a), so
S4.4's document tools and this one land apart; it is destructive, needs
books:write to preview and books:post to post (scopes.rs), and is
documented under "Tools — A/R and A/P". The destructive-tool count, the
tool tables and the journey test's tool count each move by one.
Tests over the wire: write_off_then_recovery, write_off_needs_evidence.
A bad debt is deducted on evidence it is worthless (Treas. Reg.
§1.166-2), so the store will not journal one without it:
Store::write_off_invoice takes the evidence as bytes to file or as an
attachment already filed, and files it in the same call — a
receipt.attached on the write-off's entry and an attachment.linked to
the invoice (rules.md B-41). With no evidence it refuses, journaling
nothing.
The entry (Dr 6990 Bad Debt Expense / Cr 1200) and its evidence are
journaled after the engine's whole check and after the feature gate: the
new event type invoice.written_off needs documents_v2, so an older
version stops at the declaration rather than reading a written-off
invoice as still owed (B-27, D-52). Its payload is the invoice, the
entry, the day, the amount and the reason; replay tags the receivable
line WriteOff, and the projection keeps no written-off figure — it is
the tagged lines' sum (B-38).
`meta::invoice_written_off_of` reads and writes the payload; the replay
fuzzer draws the type.
8.0.6: (1) `books_written_under_older_rules_still_open` hand-writes the
new event and its entry through JournalWriter and still opens, with the
figures tailing; (2) a new fixture old-books/p4_s7_before was written by
main 4cad2cfc (the version before this unit) through the old-books-writer
harness — a numbered invoice with terms and snapshots, a partial payment,
a voided invoice and a paid bill — with its expected.json; this version
opens it and reports the same figures, the viewer included; (3) the
cut-over entry is in format_upgrade.rs's books_p2_served_cut_over_whole;
(4) documents_v2_is_its_own_feature is green and the event gate's arms
pass; (5) no figure moves: no golden changed (the previous version's
expected.json is the comparison); (6) merge does not need the owner's
go-ahead; the live books refuse the new write until he gives it.
Tests: write_off_waits_for_documents_v2, write_off_replays_and_projects,
write_off_without_evidence_is_refused; arap_props.rs gains WriteOff.
Ledger::write_off is a new command, so it is a new Step: Step.writeOff,
whose two lines are a tagged control line (the receivable falls) and an
untagged expense line (the deduction). Being a document step in shape, it
moves nothing unattached, so control_agrees and
Reachable.control_is_documents still hold with no new proof:
Step.writeOff_unattached states its half of that.
writeOff_within_bounds is the law the command's refusal enforces: a
write-off of at most what the document is owed, read over the date-sum
docSum ... through D (B-38 fixed that sum, not standing), leaves what is
owed through the write-off's day at or above zero. through_append lets
the write-off's own two lines be read separately.
Both are listed in Audit.lean; just prove holds (standard axioms only, no
sorry).
An invoice that will not be collected comes off the receivables and is
deducted, the direct write-off method the owner chose (A-5; IRC
§166(a); Treas. Reg. §1.166-1(e), -2(a), -3(a); rules.md B-41).
Ledger::write_off posts one balanced entry, Dr 6990 Bad Debt Expense /
Cr 1200 Accounts Receivable, its receivable line tagged WriteOff so the
figures stay derived: what the invoice owes falls and what was written
off rises, and a reversal re-instates it without a new movement (D-49).
The amount is at most what is owed, and at most the least owed on any
day from the write-off's on: a later payment can't leave the invoice
owing less than nothing (B-38 INVARIANT 2). A partial write-off is
allowed, as §1.166-3(a) allows to the extent charged off. Cash-basis
books refuse it: an invoice never counted as income has no basis to
deduct (§1.166-1(e)). The bad_debts role (6990) is a control role, so
the account is created on demand and can be assigned like the others.
The same-year recovery D-49 records is a reversal of the write-off and
then a payment; a later year is a plain entry, and needs no movement.
Tests: half_paid_rest_written_off_is_written_off,
write_off_refused_on_cash_basis, write_off_above_outstanding_refused,
write_off_then_recovery_same_year.
An invoice is issued, not edited. Without `confirmed` the create tools now
preview: the posting (with the accounts' codes, which the live chart may
not hold yet), the number it will take, its due date, terms and early
discount, warnings, and for an invoice the DRAFT copy of the PDF, handed
over as a file. Nothing is written and no number is used up. With
`confirmed` the invoice posts, takes the number the preview showed, and
files the issued copy with itself in the same call: `receipt.attached` on
its entry plus the link to the invoice, its SHA-256 in the event (A-1,
A-7, B-40). The copy the customer received is therefore the copy in the
books, and `books.document`'s re-created page can never be mistaken for
it. The result also carries a `mailto` link for a human to send it; the
books never send (A-4).
A bill keeps what the plan says a bill is: the vendor's own invoice
number, the vendor's invoice filed on its entry as its evidence, and, in
books that have declared `documents_v2`, an account on every line, so no
bill can land in General Expenses by default any more (A-9, A-10, A-13).
A vendor number entered twice is refused unless the caller says why, and
the reason is journaled with the second bill (B-40 item 4). Books that
have not declared the feature keep recording bills exactly as before, so
the owner's books keep working between units (D-39, 8.0.4).
Terms are resolved in one place and in one order: the due date given,
else the terms given, else the customer's or vendor's own default, else
the books' `invoicing.default_terms`; a document given only a due date
stores no terms, so an old-shape invoice is still written byte for byte
as before (B-39, A-13).
D-55: a party carries the owner's full contact block (phone, contact
person, billing and shipping addresses, billing email). It rides the same
`party.updated` event behind `documents_v2`, and an invoice's bill-to is
snapshotted at issue with the billing address and billing email in place
of the general ones when the party has them — `PartySnapshot::from_party`
is the one place that rule lives, so a later edit cannot change what was
sent, and the next invoice takes today's details.
Tests: the wire tests are the new `crates/ledger-cli/tests/documents.rs`
(preview writes nothing, the DRAFT copy, the issued copy's SHA-256 equals
`books.get_receipt`'s, numbers run, a bill's file and terms, the duplicate
refusal, the line-account rules, the terms fallback, the `party_id` alias
and the ambiguity it refuses, the contact block's set and clear, and the
bill-to at issue); `format_upgrade.rs` gains
`documents_v2_refused_until_consent` and the cut-over test now refuses and
then makes a document carrying a new field (8.0.6 item 3); the store
tests are `the_contact_block_round_trips_and_replays` and
`an_invoice_keeps_the_billing_details_it_was_issued_with`, and
`books_written_under_older_rules_still_open` gains a hand-written
contact-block event (8.0.6 item 1).
Merge does not need the owner's go-ahead: the live books refuse a write
that needs `documents_v2` until he gives it, and take every other write as
before (8.0.6 item 6). No figure moved: S4 moves none.
The store now journals the documents_v2 fields, previews without
journaling, files the issued copy and locks invoicing.first_number once a
number exists. This records the departures: the store's create commands
keep their signatures and delegate to _with variants, the issued-copy call
takes the create's arguments expanded (the store has no params struct),
schema 16 adds the document columns only (the projection has no parties
table), the over-the-wire document cut-over entry waits for S4.4, and a
refusal leaves the journal unchanged while a storage failure between the
invoice's lines and its attachment's is not rolled back.
S4.1 gave documents a number, terms, line accounts and snapshots, and S4.2
gave parties an email and default terms, but the store journaled none of
them: a document carrying one was refused by a temporary guard, because a
public write that replay loses would break I-3. This slice makes the
journal carry them.
- `invoice.created` and `bill.created` write a number, terms, bill-to and
seller snapshots, references, memo and a duplicate's reason, and each
line its account, quantity and unit price, every key only when set. A
document naming none is journaled byte for byte as every earlier version
wrote it (`no_new_fields_journals_byte_for_byte`), so the owner's live
books keep working.
- All of it is behind `documents_v2` (B-27): a write that names one waits
for the owner's upgrade, refused with `format_upgrade_pending` and
journaling nothing; a write that names none never waits
(`documents_v2_waits_for_the_upgrade`).
- `invoicing.first_number` is settable only while no numbered invoice
exists (A-2, B-40): the series has begun, and a number is never reused or
renumbered. Refused at `set_setting`, before anything is journaled.
- The issued copy is filed in the issuing call (A-7, B-40 item 3):
`create_invoice_issued` journals the entry, the invoice, then
`receipt.attached` on that entry (`INV-0007.pdf`, `application/pdf`,
"Issued invoice") and `attachment.linked` to the invoice. There is no
`issued_pdf` field: the attachment id is allocated after the entry exists
(CD-A6), and the link is how the copy is found and how its SHA-256 is
checked. Every refusal happens before the first journal line; the PDF's
bytes are stored before it, so a refused issue leaves an unreferenced,
deduplicated blob at worst.
- A preview runs the issue on a clone and journals nothing: the posting,
the total, the number it would take and the due date (`preview_invoice`,
`preview_bill`). Books that haven't upgraded keep the legacy shape: the
copy is filed as "Invoice {id}.pdf" and no number is taken (migration
item 5).
- Schema 16 adds the document columns; a line's new fields ride
`lines_json` as its project does. `differs_from` already compares whole
invoices, bills and parties, so it sees every new field.
8.0.6: (1) `books_written_under_older_rules_still_open` hand-writes both
new document shapes through JournalWriter and still opens; (2) a new
fixture `old-books/p4_s43_documents` was written by main d5385a7e (S4.2,
the version before this slice) through the old-books-writer harness, with
its expected.json; this version opens it and reports the same figures;
(3) see the note on R-A step 4 in the PR (the over-the-wire document write
needs S4.4's arguments; S4.2's invoicing-setting entry already covers the
feature's cut-over); (4) `documents_v2_is_its_own_feature` is green; (5) no
figure moves: no golden changed; (6) merge does not need the owner's
go-ahead; the live books refuse the new writes until he gives it.
just check green (no kernel function, Lean theorem or Ledger command, so no
`just prove` change).
Review finding: `--http` parsed whatever address it was given and bound
it. The door is the plaintext MCP service with a static bearer token;
plan 3.9 and the P9a model put a TLS proxy or tunnel in front of a
loopback listener, and no decision authorises exposing the books
unencrypted. `--http 0.0.0.0:7411` would have done exactly that.
`local::tunnel_address` now accepts only a loopback address
(127.0.0.0/8 or ::1; `127.0.0.1:7411` stays the default) and refuses
anything else with a message naming loopback and why. `server` refuses
while parsing, before it takes the lock or binds a socket; `serve`
refuses before it starts a host, so nothing is left half-open. The
bind-failure behaviour for a loopback address is unchanged (said, not
fatal, 3.9), as is the unit's hardening.
The test `the_tunnel_door_binds_loopback_only` refuses 0.0.0.0, a public
sample address and [::] through `server`, checks no socket or host was
left behind, refuses through `serve`, then starts a loopback listener and
reaches `books.start` with the bearer.
No accounting code, report or figure changes.
The unit's Build assumed `--http` existed (3.9 names it) and that a
headless server could mint a token with `token create`; neither was true.
The As-built block records both, plus the client-side bearer that 3.3's
`token print` cannot supply for a remote book, and the loopback-only unit
rule that blocks a remote backup push. Done-when 1 (the CI job) and 2
(clean-VM walkthrough) are explicitly left to the owner and EM; only the
local evidence is claimed.
The books can live on a machine of the owner's own (plan 3.8, 8.2 P9a,
D-51). Three things make that honest instead of nominal:
- `--isolation same_user|enforced` sets `server::Isolation`, carried
through `Served` and `BooksServer` to `books.start`. Locally the books
stay `same_user (advisory)`; under the self-host unit the server is told
`enforced` and reports `service_user (enforced)`. The server never
guesses, and the literal it used to report is gone.
- `--http [ADDR]` binds the same MCP router on loopback (default
127.0.0.1:7411) beside the Unix sockets, before the ready line, for the
TLS proxy or tunnel in front of the server. It is the same bearer door
and the same graceful close; a failed bind is reported and is not fatal
(3.9). `serve` carries both flags through the host, so the system unit
can ask for them once.
`deploy/wanderbooks-server.service` is the unit: a dedicated account, a
0700 data root, `ProtectSystem=strict`, no seccomp or Landlock (D-32), and
loopback-only networking. `deploy/README.md` is the recipe: install, setup,
move the books by `books adopt` with its head check (D-31: a copied book
is the transport), mint a bearer token, put Caddy or Tailscale Funnel in
front of the loopback door, and point Claude Code and Codex at it.
The two-account CI job (`.github/workflows/two-user.yml`) makes the
deployment and runs `crates/ledger-cli/tests/two_user.rs` as another
account: `agent_uid_cannot_read_tenant` proves the tenant root and its
journal are refused, then reads, writes, uploads, files, exports and
verifies over HTTP with the bearer (in a second book, so the moved books'
head is not advanced); `self_host_adopt_same_head` compares the moved
books' head and event count with the source clone's.
`isolation_label_is_enforced_under_the_unit` runs everywhere, including
the unit-file read that keeps the recipe from drifting.
Accounting reason for the shape: nothing here changes an entry, a report
or a figure. It changes who can reach them: the move is lossless and
verifiable at the head, and the boundary is the operating system's, not a
promise in our text. No journal code, kernel function, Kani harness or
Lean step is touched, so `just prove` is not required.
No go-ahead needed: no new journal feature or event; the live books are
unaffected.
books.start passed Integrity::default() to the attention engine, so it
asserted "database matches, no file failures". On a book whose database
differs from the journal, or whose stored file is missing or corrupt, the
viewer showed the database/stored-files items and the server did not: the
two lists diverged exactly where they matter most.
Call find, which computes the check: every distinct stored blob is read
and hash-checked once (a damaged blob is still reported per attachment
filed from it), and Store::disk_check now makes the viewer's comparison
through a snapshot of its data directory instead of reporting a match.
The parity test now damages its own fixture (removes the receipt's blob,
then changes a projected account row) and asserts both lists still agree
item for item and both name the damage. On the demo books (138
attachments, 138 distinct blobs, debug build) books.start takes about
0.26 s warm, 0.29 s cold, so the real check costs no decision.
Needs attention was computed by the viewer alone, while books.start
hand-picked a handful of next steps. The human's list and the agent's
could disagree, and a new item had to be written twice (or, as
books.start showed, not at all).
Move the engine to ledger-package over PackageBooks: one function,
find/find_with(books, today, settings, integrity), reads the ledger, the
journal's event types (an entry's origin), the attachments and their
links, the statements, the reconciliations, and the database check. The
viewer's attention module now only maps Target to Route; books.start
turns the same items into its next steps (why = the item's title, top 12),
so the list the human sees and the steps the agent gets cannot drift.
PackageBooks gains settings, journal, statements, reconciliations and
disk_check, implemented for Store and Snapshot, so both views answer
alike. The W-9, reconciliation and 1099 predicates move beside the items
to keep one copy. ledger-package gains ledger-config and serde_json (the
receipt policy and the tool arguments the items carry).
Tests: view_model.rs and spec_kept.rs pass unchanged; the new
attention_parity.rs compares the viewer and books.start item for item on
the demo books and on a book written entry by entry. just check green.
The layout paragraph the unit asks for: server.rs as the server, the
router and the request machinery; one tools/<group>.rs per tool group
with its router; tools/helpers.rs for the helpers several groups share;
server_tests.rs for the tests that span the surface and each group's own
tests in its file. plan/served.md's U0a "As built" block records the
split, the two departures (settings_tools as the module name, the test
bodies beside server.rs) and the stale 118-tool count (the surface is
122, identical to main's).
server.rs had grown to 12,566 lines: every tool handler, every helper and
the request machinery in one file, so every unit that adds a tool touched
it and parallel worktrees conflicted on every merge (plan/served.md 8.2
U0a, 8.0.3). The 98 handlers still in it now live one file per group under
tools/, following the pattern tools/kept.rs and tools/projects.rs already
use (`#[path]` declaration, `use super::*`, one
`#[tool_router(vis = "pub(super)")] impl` per file):
documents (invoices, bills, payments, voids, books.documents,
books.document, the control check, the agings), entries (draft, line,
post, reverse, get, search, the bank CSV import), reports (the
statements, books.show, verify, digest, export, the CPA package, the
P&L by class, with the export builders), assets, schedules, periods,
reconciliation, parties (parties, vendors, customers, W-9s, the TIN
vault, 1099s, entry parties), attachments (receipts, filed documents,
links), settings (the handbook, books.settings, FX rates), chart,
payroll, payouts, tax; add_class and list_classes join the existing
projects file, since a project is a class with its facts.
The helpers only one group uses moved into that group's file; the ones
several groups share moved to tools/helpers.rs, re-exported by server.rs
so every group reaches them through `use super::*` and no group file
reaches into another's (resolve_instrument and the attachment/statement
shapers moved there too, since the payment, entries and attachment tools
all use them). server.rs keeps BooksServer, the store and its lock, the
request machinery, call_tool/get_info, tool_router (which now composes
the group routers; core_router is gone), and the shared helpers the plan
names (as_of, hand_over, resolve_vendor, parse_doc_ref, preview_lines_for).
This is a move, not a change: no accounting behaviour, tool name,
description, annotation or schema changed. A dump of
tool_router().list_all() — every tool's name, title, description, input
and output schema and annotations, in order — is identical to main's
(122 tools; the plan's "118" is stale). server.rs is 1,909 lines and has
no #[tool] handler. The server's cross-group tests moved to
server_tests.rs beside it (a #[path] module; fixtures in
server::test_support) and each group's own tests into its group file, so
server.rs stays under the 3,000-line bar. cargo test -p ledger-mcp: 99
passed; cargo test -p ledger-cli: 25 suites, 0 failed.
The landed Terms::parse reads a date chrono reads and prints it padded, so
"Due 2026-1-5" is one value with "Due 2026-01-05", not a refusal. The
settings key still keeps one spelling; the test now asserts that
canonicalization instead of refusing the short form.
The 8.0.6 checklist for this slice, which adds fields on party.updated
(an email and two default terms) and the invoicing settings it guards:
1. books_written_under_older_rules_still_open now hand-writes a party's
email and terms and an invoicing setting through JournalWriter, and the
books still open, verify and replay them.
2. A new old-books fixture, p4_s42_settings_parties, was written by the
version before this slice (1bfce915, through the old-books-writer
harness) with a party, a vendor, two posted entries and three settings,
and its expected.json from that version's code. This version opens it,
verifies it and reports its figures identically.
3. books_p2_served_cut_over_whole gains a refused invoicing setting before
the go-ahead; the same call succeeds after it.
4. documents_v2_is_its_own_feature: books that declared every earlier
feature stop at its declaration as newer, wait for the upgrade, and
name exactly it in the upgrade.
No figure moves (item 5): settings and party facts enter no report.
Merge does not need the owner's go-ahead; the live books refuse the new
party and setting writes with the upgrade remedy until he gives it.
invoicing.first_number's refusal (LedgerError::FirstNumberLocked) lands
as the contract the store's check raises once invoices carry numbers
(S4.3): a series that has begun is never renumbered (B-40, A-2).
Also: the settings invariants name the number prefix's bound, update_party's
doc says which facts wait for documents_v2, and the email check no longer
reads as a single-arm match. Terms is S4.1's as it landed; this slice no
longer carries a copy.
A customer's email is copied onto an invoice's bill-to snapshot at issue,
and a party's default terms (one as our customer, one as our vendor) are
the fallback a document's due date takes when the document itself names
none (A-13, rules.md B-39). Both are journaled as party.updated facts and
guarded by documents_v2: in books that have not declared it the write is
refused with the upgrade remedy and journaling nothing, and replay gives
the same directory back.
An email must be one plain address: one @, no spaces, no full TIN (the
party text rule already refuses nine digits). Terms are typed and already
canonical, so there is no second spelling to check. A party.updated naming
a field this version does not know is now NewerJournal, never corrupt
(B-27): an older version must say update, not damage; a known field with a
malformed value is still corrupt.
Eleven settings the invoice and bill workflow reads: the number prefix and
first number, default terms, payment methods with their bank details and
QR links, a footer, the unsent and reminder day counts, the bill reminder
and discount-warning day counts, and the company's email and website that
the seller snapshot prints.
Three new kinds keep them exact: a count is a positive whole number, terms
are canonicalized through Terms so "net 30" is stored once as "Net 30"
(B-39), and a payment method list admits at most eight methods whose lines
are at most 120 characters. A routing number is nine digits, so an ach or
wire method's bank-detail lines are the one text exempt from the full-TIN
check (A-3); every other text in a method is scanned.
The keys need the documents_v2 feature (D-52): an older version doesn't
know them, and the settings replay refuses an unknown key as newer. The
constant, the known-features entry and the gate test land with this slice
(its 8.0.6 work); S4.3 adds the document write call sites and must not
redeclare them.
A settings file now exports the [invoicing] and [bills] tables, a payment
method as an inline table (never a [[payment_methods]] section that would
land outside its table), and imports them back to the same values. The
unknown-key test uses fax instead of website, which is now a setting.
Documents could name only one revenue or general-expenses account per
project, had no number of their own, and took a due date the caller had
to work out. This slice gives the core the pieces the rest of S4 needs,
and journals nothing: an old-shape document still writes byte for byte,
so the owner's books need no upgrade for it.
- Payment terms (B-39): Net n, Net n EOM, due on receipt and a custom
date, with the early-payment discount and its exact bound
(kernel::discount_max, Kani + bridge). A due date past the calendar's
end is refused, never a panic, and a discount is refused with terms
that have no net days.
- Invoice numbers (B-40, A-2): first_number plus the count of numbered
invoices, zero-padded to four digits and wider past 9,999, stored at
issue, kept by a void; legacy invoices are uncounted.
- Line accounts (A-10): a document line may name its account, and the
entry posts one line per (account, project) part. An invoice line takes
revenue or a liability holding no role (deferred revenue); a bill line
an expense or a non-cash asset holding no role. Roles, cash accounts
and headers are refused.
- A line's amount is exactly its quantity times its unit price
(kernel::line_amount, Kani + bridge): both or neither, never rounded.
- A vendor's invoice number names one standing bill per vendor, with
case, spaces and hyphens ignored, unless a duplicate reason says why
(B-40).
- The record fields S4.3 will journal: number, terms, bill-to and seller
snapshots, customer reference, memo, the empty sends list S5 fills, and
the bill's received_on, all optional and defaulted.
The store refuses a line carrying an account, quantity or unit price
before it rehearses or journals anything: those fields are journaled from
S4.3's documents_v2 on, and I-3 will not let a public write replay
without them. `document_line_fields_wait_for_documents_v2` proves the
refusal, the unchanged journal and allocators, and that an ordinary line
journals exactly as before. S4.3 removes this guard in the same change
that journals the fields and adds its byte-for-byte test.
The document commands keep their signatures; create_invoice_with and
create_bill_with take the optional fields for S4.3 and for tests. They
are the existing issue commands with more fields, not a new state
transition, so no Lean Step is added. Kani: line_amount_is_exact runs in
`just prove`; discount_max_is_bounded relates a product to a quotient and
runs in `prove-slow` (163 s), as the proration charge harnesses do.
just check green; just prove green.
`accepted` and `refused` are a command's (and `refused` a period's): the
schema now refuses either on a query that does not take it, as the loader
already did, instead of letting a malformed example reach the runner.
The no-op table walk in the same branch goes with it.
Every rule of `docs/spec/rules.md` now has one bookspec identifier,
`BS-<area>-<n>`: eleven areas (entry, ledger, statement, period, partner,
asset, prepaid, arap, revenue, 1099, format), numbered in B-rule order
within its area. The table is `bookspec/spec/rules-index.md`, and each
stated rule carries its id under its heading in `docs/spec/rules.md`, so
a reader of either can find the other.
rules.md's DECISION status becomes bookspec's CHOICE: the specification
names the options and an engine declares its pick (`Claims::with_choice`),
which is what an example already meant by `status = "CHOICE"`. B-39 to
B-45 are allocated in `plan/served.md` 8.0.3 and not yet stated: they
carry an id and an area and no status, so a later unit fills them in
without moving anyone else's number.
The catalogue names the examples that demonstrate each rule (56 files,
each under at least one rule) and the rule each refusal reason belongs
to. A rule with no example cannot be claimed: a claim needs evidence.
`docs/architecture.md`, `docs/testing.md` (tests and the For-P12
mutation targets) and `docs/parity.md` record the new shape; the
bookspec README points at the checker, the runner and the adapter.
bookspec is a specification first: every rule normative and sourced,
every rule demonstrated by concrete examples, and any accounting engine
checked against them through one interface (D-34). This moves the
examples' schema out of the test that happened to parse them and makes
the interface explicit.
- `bookspec/checker` (its own workspace, inside this repository until
the harness is stable): `Example`, `Setup`, `Event`, `Expect`, `Query`,
`Refusal` and the TOML parser, every structure `deny_unknown_fields`,
with `Example::from_toml` checking the cross-field shape (closed lists,
exact decimal amounts, dates, one event kind, `reverses` counting from
1, the shares summing to 1, commands accepted or refused and not both).
- `Engine` (`load`, `apply`, `query`, `claims`) and `Refusal { rule,
reason }`; the refusal's rule is the bookspec identifier, so a refusal
names the rule it belongs to. `Claims` also carries the option an
engine picks for a CHOICE rule.
- `bookspec/runner` drives any `Engine` through the examples and reports
per rule: pass, fail, not claimed. It compares the answer itself; an
engine is never asked whether it agrees with itself.
- `crates/ledger-core/tests/bookspec.rs` is the wanderbooks adapter over
`Store`: the loader parses through the checker, its own checks are
unchanged, and the new `the_runner_reports_every_claimed_rule_green`
runs all 56 examples through the trait. The IIF appendix is answered
through `ledger_package::export_iif`, the code its own test checks.
- `just check` runs the bookspec workspace's fmt, clippy, rustdoc and
tests too, so an example cannot rot (D-34, Z-17).
The plan's trait has four methods and no path for an example's
`[[changes]]` (a rename, the policy, an asset correction), which post no
entry: `change` is the fifth, required so an engine cannot skip those
examples silently. This is reported to the EM as the one departure.
One money rule holds here too: an answer's figures are exact decimal
strings, never JSON numbers, so no engine can round a cent through a
float.
rules.md B-26 now says what the scanner reads: a comma or a parenthesis
between a TIN's 3-2-4 or 2-7 groups, and any run of spaces counting
once, while an amount's comma-grouped thousands stay an amount. The
filing scan's (a) and (b) renderings gain commas. docs/testing.md gains
the P7 section and the For-P12 mutation targets (D-33), and plan/
served.md's P7 As-built block records the three departures.
The scanner now finds a comma-grouped TIN, so the two places that hand
raw text out or let it in must follow: the access log's digest and its
64-character client texts masked hyphens but not commas, and a filed
file's printed-shape check refused 123-45-6789 but let 123,45,6789 in.
The access log uses the shared redactor, so it inherits the fix; the
filing scan keeps its own deliberately narrow shapes (a bank export's
routing numbers and amounts must still be filed, B-26) and gains the
comma renderings of an SSN's 3-2-4 and an EIN's 2-7. A comma-grouped
amount is still no TIN and still files.
No book, journal line or figure changes.
A taxpayer identification number can be written 123,45,6789 or
(123) 45-6789 as easily as 123-45-6789, and the scanner only knew the
second: a comma-grouped number slipped through every party field, every
refusal that quotes its input and the access log's masking, which is how
a full TIN could reach a result the books promise never shows one
(rules.md B-26, I-7).
The scanner now reads a comma or a parenthesis between a TIN's 3-2-4 or
2-7 groups, and any run of spaces counts once however long it is, so
12 3456789 is an EIN. Commas and parentheses join only those groups:
an amount's thousands separators (1,234,567.89 is 1-3-3-2) still read as
an amount, and a nine-digit D-U-N-S number stays its own setting's kind
(company.duns). The old run reading is unchanged for everything it
found, which the property asserts; replay still reads a journaled line
as P2 did (B-28).
The truth table and the ASCII-equality property pinned the old separator
set, so they were updated with it: the property is now
has_full_tin_never_forgets_a_tin (what was found before is still found).
No journal, entry or figure changes: this is a text scanner only.
Records the two departures. The timeline's reversed items are labelled,
not struck through, so the S2 paragraph targets the labels the viewer
draws. And the A/R and A/P section's party filter takes a customer's or
vendor's name (the handler also matches a document's own id), not the
customer or vendor id the old text and the schema promised; the schema
is a code finding, because this unit may not change code.
Checking the section against the handlers found four things to say
differently. A row's status is the DocStatus key, which is a different
list from the filter words (overdue and all filter; partial and
unattached only report); the timeline is bounded by as_of; the answer
carries pdf? when it is asked for; and the party filter matches a
customer's or vendor's name, not the customer or vendor id the old text
promised. The section head now says S4 changes the two
document-creating tools, so a reader of today's surface is not
surprised when numbers and terms arrive.
The 8.0.4 bar asks every unit to record what P12 must mutate (D-33), and
P4b S1 part A has its paragraph while part B, S2 and S3 shipped without
one. S1-B's targets are the payment details (a reference is one line of
at most 200 characters, carried in the entry's description; the
instrument is tagged in the same call) and the two handlers that put
B-38 on the wire (void, control check). S2's are the status filters and
the timeline labels that make a reversed payment read as reversed
instead of disappearing. S3's are the stamp arms and the re-created-copy
branch, where an invoice that has no kept copy says so.
The S2 section records what shipped against the plan's As-built words:
the timeline labels reversed items ("Payment reversed", "Payment
(reversed later)"); the viewer draws no strikethrough.
ledger-import invoice_pdf (templates/invoice.typ): seller, bill-to,
number, dates, terms, lines, total, each settled line and the balance
due; money formatted in Rust (the template does no arithmetic), text as
data, deterministic bytes. Stamps as a rubber stamp would mark it, in
red: PAID (with the day it was paid in full: the invoice is then the
customer's receipt), PARTIALLY PAID, PAST DUE, VOID; DRAFT in gray for
S4's preview. ledger-package invoice_document builds it from the books
as of a day: the derived figures (B-38), each payment that stands on its
own line with its date, payment method and reference; re-created copies
say so (the issued copy is kept from S4 on and never changes).
books.document pdf hands it over as a download; the viewer's invoice
page saves or opens it. The owner asked for the paid stamp with the
payment's date and details (2026-10-24).
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One sidebar item, Invoices & Bills (the owner's choice, 2026-10-24),
with Money in (invoices) and Money out (bills) tabs: what is owed and
overdue, and the list tied to its receivables or payables account
(Agrees, or what to look at); filters Open, Overdue, Paid, Void, All;
rows by due date, an overdue one saying how many days late, each named
in full for assistive tech. A document's page: total, received or paid,
still owed, status; its lines with their projects; its timeline, a
payment later reversed marked so, each row opening its entry. The
overview adds Owed to you and You owe on bills once the books have
documents. Every figure is the document's derived state (rules.md B-38).
The sidebar's rows (and the rail's) give way to 22 points, not 24, so
13 links still fit the owner's 1479x519 window unscrolled; the
sidebar's tests compute heights from the link count; the 1440x920
golden is re-blessed for the new link.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T3gXMVt7XJPi6ens1or9Dj
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