Accounting reason: a confirm must act on the thing that was previewed.
Every tool with confirmed (post_entry, reverse_entry, run_schedules,
dispose_asset, reconcile, close_period, create_invoice, create_bill,
write_off_invoice, purge_tin, consolidate_duplicates, and the S6
settlement tools receive_payment and pay_bill, which gain confirmed and
preview on a clone of the ledger) returns preview (SHA-256 of the
canonical preview) and refuses a confirm whose preview is missing or
stale (stale_preview, before anything is written). A draft's digest is
its own state and the settings seq; an operation's is the tool, its
arguments as sent, the settings seq and the journal head seq, so another
session's write forces a re-preview (D-50).
New tools books.list_drafts, books.set_draft_state, books.discard_draft,
books.preview_entry; reports carry as_of_status (drafts open on or before
their end, unreconciled accounts, settings problems) and take strict; the
CPA package is refused while a draft dated in it is open unless
allow_open_drafts gives a reason, journaled as a decision;
books.digest takes since_seq (what was posted since a journal line,
backdated entries included: defect 6) and lists zero_net_accounts,
drafts_by_state and the reconciliation split. Needs attention gains
'draft awaiting receipt' beside 'draft not posted'; the drafts handbook
is rewritten. Every over-the-wire harness confirms the way an agent does.
Docs: mcp-interface, rules B-43, parity, testing (with the For-P12
paragraph), architecture, and the unit's As-built block.
Tests: drafts.rs (a_draft_waits_for_its_receipt_and_posts,
the_gate_moved_and_the_mcp_error_is_unchanged,
a_reversal_needs_no_receipt_of_its_own, discard_unblocks_the_close_over_the_wire,
report_warns_on_draft_before_as_of, cpa_package_refuses_open_draft,
stale_preview_refused, every_confirm_tool_takes_a_preview,
digest_since_seq_is_posting_time, legacy_reversed_replays_identically,
gui_and_server_gate_agree), attention_parity.rs, format_upgrade.rs.
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The last of the paused branches, from its "not for merge" checkpoint:
extraction in ledger-import (text, pages, page images; capped, caught),
journaled as attachment.text_extracted; dedup by hash with
books.find_attachment and books.consolidate_duplicates; annotations and
books.set_entry_settles; the company record categories; the two fuzz
targets; feature attachment_text. Nineteen files conflicted with the
four P4b merges, resolved as plan 8.0.2 says: P6 retakes schema 18 (it
had taken 16, which S4.3 holds; S5 holds 17); the tool table is 129 and
the destructive count 31; both sides' appends kept with their seams
restored; one B-27 paragraph naming every feature; in the old-books
fixture P6's hand-written reimbursement is entry 7 (its ids collided
with S4.3's invoice); the replay fuzzer's list gains S7's
invoice.written_off; S4.3's issued-PDF test expects the extraction
record P6 journals right after a filing.
One integration defect between S7 and P6, found by the arap property
test and fixed here: under P6's dedup, a write-off whose evidence bytes
were filed already (the same collection letter for a second write-off of
the same invoice) was refused only after its entry had been journaled,
at the final link to the invoice ("already linked"). The write-off now
resolves the dedup before anything is journaled and keeps a link the
record already has to the invoice instead of refusing it; an explicit
existing_attachment_id already on an entry is still refused (S7's
one-receipt-once rule). P6's gate never ran before the pause; it runs on
main after this merge, and its ledger-store -> ledger-import dependency
is the open review point (plan 8.0.1).
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The fourth of the paused branches: Ledger::write_off and the bad_debts
control role, invoice.written_off with its evidence filed in the same
store call, books.write_off_invoice, the write-off on the timeline and
in Needs attention, Lean writeOff_within_bounds, rules.md B-41 and the
bookspec examples. Twenty-eight files conflicted with the S4.4, S5 and
S6 merges; resolved as plan 8.0.2 says, keeping both sides' appends with
their seams restored, and: the scope table at 125; S7's law numbered 37;
B-41 placed before B-42; the handbook's step 4 and recovery procedures
folded into the one invoices-and-bills section; S7's wire tests in their
own module with the confirm S4.4's contract needs; S7's copy of the
payment steps dropped (S6 replaced them with Ledger::settle) and its
write-off journaled through S6's journal_auto_lines; in the old-books
fixture S7's hand-written write-off moved to a second invoice, since
S6's hand-written payment settles invoice 1 in full.
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The third of the paused branches: Ledger::settle with discounts and the
processor's fee (kernel::settle, Kani settle_is_exact, Lean
settle_posts_a_document_step), books.receive_payment and books.pay_bill
with applications, books.bills_due, the agings' detail and tie-out, the
aging exports and the CPA package's aging CSVs, the handlers in
tools/settlements.rs. Twelve files conflicted with the S4.4 and S5
merges, resolved as plan 8.0.2 says: both routers; both test appends
(the shared match arm in arap_standing.rs spliced into both tests; the
shared `.unwrap()` in store.rs); the scope table at 124; one
invoices-and-bills handbook (S5's send step 1 with S6's steps 2, 3, 5
and procedures) registered once; docs/mcp-interface.md with S4.4's
create docs and S6's payment docs; S5's law renumbered 35 and S6's 36
(S1's is 34); the parity rows and sections of both. S6's wire tests
create their bills as S4.4's contract now requires (confirmed, the
vendor's number, a line account, the vendor's invoice uploaded) and live
in their own module beside S4.4's tests.
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The second of the paused branches. invoice.sent, Ledger::mark_sent (with
its Lean step), books.mark_sent in its own group, the two attention
items, schema 17. Conflicts, resolved as plan 8.0.2 says: the shared
over-the-wire test file crates/ledger-cli/tests/documents.rs (S4.4's
file kept whole, S5's test appended, its create call given the
confirmed: true the S4.4 contract now needs), types.rs (both appends
kept), docs/parity.md (the review's oracle row and S5's new row).
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`inv1_every_tool_result_matches_its_output_schema` fails listing any
tool the happy-path journey never calls successfully; the new send tool
must be in it. The journey records one send on the invoice it already
created (the books never send), so its output schema is exercised on
every run like every other tool's.
books.receive_payment and books.pay_bill take applications, each
document's cash with an optional discount and reason, and a customer
payment may carry the processor's fee; the result names every document it
settled and what reached the account. books.bills_due lists what to pay
and the running total by due date. The agings take detail and return the
control account's tie-out, and books.export writes ar_aging/ap_aging.
The handlers live in tools/settlements.rs (the EM's split, so S4.4's
documents.rs stays free); documents.rs keeps the documents, the void and
the control check. docs/mcp-interface.md documents every changed tool and
the new one; docs/architecture.md names the group; docs/testing.md
records the tests and P12's mutation targets.
Old names (document_id, cash_account) still work; the output keeps
remaining/status for one document. A fee's processor is named in the
description, not tagged as the entry's vendor: ledger tags are entry-wide
and tagging would move the customer's party totals and 1099-NEC.
The handbook's invoices-and-bills section gains the payment, discount,
fee and bounce-replacement procedures (S4.5 can extend it). Over the wire:
one_payment_settles_two_invoices, late_discount_needs_a_reason,
a_fee_posts_gross_to_receivables_and_net_to_the_bank,
card_paid_bill_is_not_1099_nec,
multi_document_payment_counts_once_for_1099_and_party_totals,
overpayment_refused_with_the_excess,
bills_due_orders_by_due_and_discount and the_aging_export_ties_out.
Terms cannot yet be journaled on a document (S4.3) and a bill line's
account is not an MCP field (S4.4), so bill_on_terms_with_discount,
equipment_bill_payment_is_investing_cash and the discount half of
bills_due are core tests until those land; the unit's As-built block
records this.
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.
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.
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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books.documents lists invoices or bills, due date first, with what each
still owes and its status, all derived from its ledger lines that stand
(B-38): status open (default), overdue, paid, void, written_off,
overpaid or all; party and due_by narrow it (what to pay this week).
books.document shows one (ref invoice:N or bill:N) as of a day: lines
with projects, total, paid, discounted, written off, outstanding,
status, days overdue, and its timeline of every tagged ledger line, each
saying whether its entry still stands. The over-the-wire test
documents_list_and_timeline_over_the_wire covers a reversed payment;
the happy-path journey covers both output schemas.
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books.void_document voids an invoice or bill that should never have
existed by reversing its own entry with the reason (refused while a
payment stands on it, naming that payment). books.control_check ties
receivables and payables to their documents (B-23, B-38 INVARIANT 1):
balance, documents' total, lines that are no document's, the documents
needing attention; books.verify checks the identity and books.digest
lists its problems (control_problems). books.receive_payment and
books.pay_bill take instrument (tagged in the same call) and reference
(in the description), and answer the document's derived remaining and
status. The books record payments; they never collect or make them
(D-45). Docs, handbook and STATUS; the over-the-wire test
documents_void_and_tie_out_over_the_wire; the happy-path journey covers
both tools' output schemas. The processor fee waits for S6.
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The owner (2026-10-23, via the question tool): "Uploads only"; and
before it: "What we would DEFINITELY want to avoid is passing a bunch
of BLOBs through AI context windows. That's just a pure waste." No file
passes through an agent's context, in either direction.
In: the inline arguments are gone with the 256 KiB limit (INLINE_MAX,
take_file's inline branch): content_base64 and its sha256 on
books.attach_receipt and books.file_document, w9_content_base64 and
w9_sha256 on books.set_w9, csv_text on the two CSV imports. A file comes
only by books.begin_upload and `wanderbooks upload`, named by its
upload_id; existing_attachment_id still names bytes stored already. The
five filing tools deny unknown fields, and any inline argument to any
tool is refused before it runs as an unknown argument pointing to
books.begin_upload (access log: refused inline_file).
Out: books.export (every format), books.asset_labels and
books.get_receipt view bytes hand the file over (HandedFile: download
command and expiry, D-29), as the CPA package and the W-9 do. Resource
reads stay text. A token keeps up to 64 handed files (was 16). The
access log's digest no longer exempts file bytes.
Docs: handbook files-in-out and parties-and-tins, mcp-interface.md,
rules.md, receipt-store.md, parties-and-attachments.md, plan/served.md
(D-46; the inline decisions marked superseded), STATUS.md, testing.md
(D-46: tests migrated to uploads and downloads, rewritten, removed,
added).
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The owner (2026-10-23): "We should probably just delete the stdio path
altogether. THere's no point in that. And it sitting there unused will
just lead to bitrot. Nuke it?"
Books are served only by the books server (`wanderbooks server`),
reached by agents through the bridge (`wanderbooks mcp --book ID`),
which stays.
Removed: `wanderbooks dev-stdio`, the `ledger-mcp` binary, and
`ledger_mcp::run` (stdio and `--http` over a bare data dir), with all
that only that mode had:
- files the books make coming back inline: `HandedFile.content_base64`
is gone, and `download` and `expires_at` are always there;
- books with no access log or backups: `books.access_log`,
`books.backup` and `books.back_up_now` are always offered, by scope;
- the settings file read and reloaded (`legacy_files`), the vault key
named by a file or `--vault-key-file`, and the books dir's
key-inside-the-books and git checks (with `paths.rs`);
- `wire.rs` (the bridge frames an agent's lines itself);
- `books.settings`' file fields and `books.start`'s `settings_source`.
`BooksServer` is built one way, from `Served` (a book as the books
server serves it), in production and in the unit tests. An unknown tool
is now a protocol error (mcp-tools.md). Inline file input is unchanged.
Then the owner's three decisions (2026-10-23, the question tool):
(a) `books.import_settings` is removed entirely (118 tools): old books
come in whole by `wanderbooks books adopt`, which reads their settings
file once; ledger-config keeps its settings-file parsing only as far as
adoption uses it (`load` and the path-reading `effective_receipt_policy`
are gone), and `books.chart_template` gives its settings as
`books.set_setting` changes. (b) The viewer's loose-books-folder mode is
removed (`--data-dir`, `--books-toml`, `--vault-key-file`, the settings
file and config.json followed): it opens only books of the data root,
reading settings from the journal and the vault from the book's own
`vault/` and `keys/`. (c) `wanderbooks dev-stdio` has no stub: it is an
unknown command like any other word. Also: an upload's expiry past the
calendar is an error, never an empty string.
Tests: every suite that drove the stdio server moved to
crates/ledger-cli/tests/ and drives a real `wanderbooks server` on a
data root of its own (tests/common), handed files by their download;
mcp_stdio.rs is mcp_journeys.rs. Tests of what is gone are deleted and
listed in docs/testing.md. Docs: plan D-44 (D-18 superseded), STATUS,
testing, rules, mcp-interface, the handbook, README; justfile recipes.
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