A project is a class with facts (description, status, kind, party,
dates, links, notes) in one project.set event behind the format
feature projects. Four tools (books.add_project, update_project,
projects, project); documents and decisions link to projects; B-37:
on-spec costs are expensed as incurred, repayment is revenue, and the
unrecovered cost is never below zero (Kani). Viewer: a Projects list
and a project page with its figures, by month and by account. The
sidebar measures its footer instead of reserving a fixed 172 px.
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Split kernel::entry_flows into entry_movements and flows_of so the
reversal-mirror proof fits CI; prove runs the fast harnesses, prove-slow
the 8 slow ones (own job in scheduled CI), prove-all both. Laws in
verification.md renumbered 1-31 with a table of all 55 harnesses.
MCP docs checked against the 115 tools (about 60 fixes) with a test that
every tool is documented; rules.md cross-references fixed; bookspec
statuses and loader tightened; viewer notes wrap and accounts sort by
code; STATUS.md says P3 is built, cutover pending.
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Schema 13 is as shipped and the asset columns are schema 14 (shipped
migrations pinned by hash); the tax-basis K-1 leaves net income open (only
the return has it) and takes a contributed prepaid plan at its book amount
as its section 723 basis; a disposal of contributed property names its
704(c) gain or loss; aliases compare by meaning; fixture amounts made up.
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A distribution declared to a payable and then paid is financing when paid,
the declaration disclosed (ASC 230-10-45-15(a)); a disposal's depreciation
lines count as depreciation in the cash flow and the tax-basis K-1; an
as-of asset list says the status of that day. Seam tests tie the members'
statement, K-1, party totals, cash flow, 1099s, depreciation and the CPA
package together on three dates.
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Book value is cost less what the books posted; the schedule's figure is
apart. An asset's acquired date comes from its entry. Contributed
property keeps its section 723 carryover basis apart from its depreciable
basis (the lower of value and adjusted basis), with its 704(c) built-in
gain and method. The K-1 worksheet reports tax-basis capital (Form 1065
Item L) beside the book figures, leaving open what only the CPA knows.
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The final month takes what the months before leave, spread over its days;
a disposed asset stops on its disposal day. A skipped month is caught up
in the month the run is made; a reversed run un-posts its month. New
schedules spread by day; equal-months schedules must start on the 1st.
Amounts round to the currency's own minor unit. Kani and Lean proofs; an
exhaustive search over runs, reversals and disposals.
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A vendor's 1099 decision is its own dated fact (files NEC or MISC, not
reportable with its reason, or undetermined), applied by each payment's
date. Payment methods are recorded; card and network payments are left
out and listed; a member's check through financing counts; a bank payment
with no method counts (D-40); $2,000 for payments after 2025. One
worksheet for the tool, the viewer and the CPA package.
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Each party's part of an entry is signed as its own account would show it,
with a direction and its cash and in-kind amounts; a reversal is its
original negated. Totals on a cash or all basis: for a member, all equals
the members' equity statement and cash the K-1's cash. Money is cash,
cards and the financing accounts, and a liability credit never pays its
own creditor (creditor_of), so accruals and declared distributions count
once. tin_last4 from the TIN or W-9 facts.
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books.rename_account; account names trimmed, bounded, refused when a
sibling's or TIN-shaped; books.show refuses what its target ignores. A
report asked for without dates covers this fiscal year so far, everywhere
(one rule for tools, descriptions and the viewer; the IIF and CPA package
keep their own dates). policy.require_tax_category warns or refuses; a
Form 4797 gain is shown apart on every return.
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Direct method with the operating reconciliation and noncash schedules; it
foots by construction (Lean and Kani). Every non-cash account belongs to
one section; reversals net; a member or lender paying for the company is
cash borrowed and spent (D-42, constructive receipt and disbursement);
property a member contributes stays noncash. The bookspec seed: one loader
checks every example.
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The CPA package's general-journal.iif now holds every posted entry through
as_of (closing entries left out, D-36), written as plain ASCII with CR LF,
DOCNUM the entry id, QuickBooks Desktop's field limits and subaccount types
honoured, and every character written differently listed in the export's
warnings and the README (grouped by substitution, TINs masked). The 1099
worksheet stops at as_of too. PDFs print CJK, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai and
Devanagari (Noto fallbacks, OFL), and so does the viewer. has_full_tin reads
Unicode separators.
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Members' shares of earnings are split cumulatively by largest remainder in
the closes, the members' equity statement, the K-1 worksheet and the
viewer, so a member's capital on a given day never moves by a cent when its
month is later closed. Old closes replay as they were; the first P3 close
carries any true-up. Feature members_cumulative. Kani and Lean proofs of
the bounded drift; bookspec examples.
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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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- 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/FL-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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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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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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- 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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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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ledger-config: parse gets a sourced spec. A fiscal year starts on the
first of a month (IRS Pub. 538); tax_classification is read by whole
words (Treas. Reg. 301.7701-3, Schedule C instructions; "business corp"
no longer reads as an S corp, "corporation or S corporation" is refused);
duplicate or blank members and shared capital accounts are refused; a
negative or non-grammatical receipt threshold is refused; codes trimmed.
tests/spec_config.rs (65 spec-blind tests, 14 properties), fuzz target
fuzz_config_parse (weekly). Mutation: 55 of 55 viable caught (from 25/38).
The receipt policy moves to ledger-config, with one loader
(effective_receipt_policy) and one decimal grammar, so the server and
the viewer enforce and show the same rule (the viewer had its own: only
expense-like debits, a silent $25 default, and no config.json).
ledger-mcp: a module spec (MCP 2025-06-18 tools, JSON-RPC 2.0, the
operating contract). Amounts in are exactly -?digits[.digits]; a number
that is one account's code and another's id (vendors, classes alike) is
refused, not guessed; the threshold is validated at startup. Fixed:
add_line with a bad class journaled the line before refusing;
profit_and_loss_by_class ignored `class`; aging buckets said "0". A wire
in front of rmcp answers malformed JSON with -32700 and invalid requests
with -32600 and their id (rmcp dropped the first, omitted the id).
tests/spec_mcp.rs (26 spec-blind tests: every tool's result against its
own outputSchema, a random-call state machine checking the journal is
untouched by every refusal, amount grammar, previews, the receipt policy).
ledger-gui: money, accounting, and dollars never round (they rounded to
cents, banker's style); export file names avoid Windows device names,
trailing dots and spaces, empty names, and 255-byte overflow; specs on
attention, history, fuzzy search, and axis ticks.
ledger-core: the lifetime profit_and_loss is renamed unclosed_earnings
(docs/testing.md #3).
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Ledger::renumber_account changes only the code (entries name accounts by
id): refuses an unknown account, a blank or used code, and a control code
for an account of the wrong type or a placeholder. Journaled as
account.renumbered (with the previous code), replayed, projected, shown
in the viewer's journal. The MCP tool lists wanderbooks.toml settings
that still name the old code. The server instructions now warn that the
engine can't tell a same-type account with another purpose at a control
code (a hosting expense at payroll's 6100).
Tests: core property (only the code changes; trial balance equal), core
refusals, the store's command property, MCP end to end with restart.
Mutation on the new code: 8 of 8 viable caught.
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From the IRS form instructions (now quoted in docs/spec/sources/
irs-tax-lines.md):
- On Forms 1065 and 1120-S, Schedule K takes "only taxable portfolio
interest", and charitable contributions are among the items the entity
"must state separately". The tax summary counted both in ordinary
income and deductions; they now go in TaxSummary::separately_stated,
outside book_net and tax_net, and the report, MCP export, and viewer
list them under "Separately stated to owners (Schedule K)".
- Schedule C: "Do not include charitable contributions". The category no
longer applies to Schedule C (a sole proprietor's gift is personal, an
owner draw).
- interest_income's note: interest earned in the business itself is
ordinary income (other_income).
XLSX: a cell number is a binary double and Excel honors 15 significant
digits (Microsoft, "Excel specifications and limits"), so an amount over
$9,999,999,999,999.99 or finer than a cent is written as its exact text,
right-aligned, instead of a number Excel would show wrong. The old
conversion also fell back to 0.0 silently; gone. Property test: every
whole-cent amount up to 15 digits round-trips exactly.
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The refusal property gained the converse law (an accepted command
journals something; only batch runs may find nothing to do) and checks
the store's class and payroll listings. It found a schedule registered
with an out-of-range total whose first month was refused after its entry
was begun: the live ledger kept a draft the journal never had.
- Core: compound commands (post_schedule_month, reverse_entry,
close_period_to, create_invoice, create_bill, receive_payment,
pay_bill, run_payroll, remit_payroll_taxes) run inside
Ledger::atomically, so a refusal partway leaves the ledger exactly as
it was.
- Core: a schedule total no line could carry, or finer than a cent, and
an asset cost beyond the line range, are refused at registration.
Replay keeps older schedules (replay_register_schedule).
- Store: add_line, add_line_fx, mark_cleared, set_fx_rate,
post_schedule_month and close_period_to changed the live ledger before
journaling; they now run on a copy, journal what it produced, then
swap it in, so a failed write leaves the live books as journaled.
New spec-blind suite tests/spec_store.rs (57 tests written from the
store's specs alone). Its two findings, adjudicated:
- A file filed twice under different names listed the first name and
type for both (the projection kept them per blob). Schema v8 gives
each attachment its own; older databases backfill and heal by verify.
- Withdrawn attachments stay in the store's listing, marked (the MCP
listing hides them): the spec and doc said "omit" and are corrected.
Also removes journal::truncate_to_last_good_seq: unused, and it dropped
everything after the first bad complete line, which the books now treat
as corruption for a person, never repaired automatically.
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Each close into members' capital rounded on its own, ties to the
earlier member, so twelve monthly 50/50 closes of odd-cent income could
leave one member several cents ahead of half the year (docs/testing.md
#12, found with the members' equity fix).
- CloseTo::Members now splits cumulatively over a run (closes back to
back with the same members and shares): each close gives a member
allocate(run total so far) - allocate(run total before). Periods
record their close order and a cumulative close's members and net
(Period::close_seq, member_close) so the next close continues the run
and replay recomputes it exactly. A close to anything else, or other
shares, ends the run.
- Journaled "rounding": "cumulative". The per-close rule is kept as
CloseTo::MembersPerClose for closes journaled "largest_remainder";
older closes still replay with the last member absorbing it.
- Lean: runPart_telescopes (a member's total from a run is their
allocation of the run's total) and closePart_total (each close hands
out exactly its net), audited to the standard axioms.
- Tests: hand-computed three one-cent months (per close A 0.03 / B 0;
cumulative A 0.02 / B 0.01), a run ending, a property that each member
stays within a cent of their share (fails on the per-close rule), and
a store contract that each rule journals and replays as itself.
The first company's books have no closes yet, so all of theirs use the new rule.
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New concurrency test: one thread writes entries, drafts and receipts as
fast as it can while a Snapshot (the viewer) refreshes in a loop. At
every refresh the snapshot's books must balance, never go backward, and
never see the writer's database as differing from the journal; at the
end it must equal the writer in full. It failed 30 runs in 50:
check_disk read the applied position and the tables in separate
statements, so a write landing between them made a consistent database
look like it "differs", which the viewer shows as a problem in Needs
attention.
- check_disk reads in one read transaction (one consistent view).
- A database that has applied lines the viewer hasn't read yet is now
DiskCheck::Ahead ("viewer catching up"), not Behind.
- Without the transaction the test fails 14 runs in 20; with it, 50/50.
Also: members' equity spec 3b states the exact bound (a member's period
income is within two cents of their share, one cent of rounding at each
end; the running balance chains exactly), and the spec-blind property
checks that bound. docs/testing.md gains the concurrency layer and item
12: each close into members' capital still rounds on its own (pending).
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A capital account is one running balance (Form 1065 Schedule K-1
instructions, Item L: beginning and ending capital "based on the
partnership's books and records"), but the statement split prior
earnings and the period's income separately, so a member's ending on one
statement could differ by a cent from their beginning on the next.
Now each member's share of undistributed earnings is allocated as of a
date (largest remainder, as before): beginning as of the day before the
period, ending as of its last day. A member's period income is the
roll-forward's remainder (their share within a rounding cent); incomes
still sum to net income. New property
each_members_capital_chains_across_statements (random books, odd-cent
shares, closes to members or not, any split date) fails on the old code
and passes now. The hand-computed test is recomputed: the old split gave
two cents off an even 50/50 to date.
Also: rules.md B-13 quotes Item L; docs/testing.md #7 and #8 marked
changed; the CPA-question list is replaced by the rule that wanderbooks
settles questions from the sources and makes real choices per-company
settings.
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From ASC 230 (via Deloitte DART and PwC Viewpoint), replacing two
formerly assumed behaviors:
- Financing and investing are gross (230-10-45-7): per account, cash in
and cash out are separate lines (contributions apart from
distributions, borrowing apart from repayment), netted only within
one entry. Lines come in code order, in before out.
- Investing includes making and collecting loans and buying investments
(230-10-20, 45-13), not only registered fixed assets:
CashFlowParams gains investing_accounts.
- The roles are per-company settings: [books] financing_accounts and
investing_accounts in wanderbooks.toml (beside cash_accounts). The MCP
tools (cash_flow, export, CPA package) default every list to them and
share one path; the viewer reads them too, falling back to its name
guess for debt. A due-to-owners liability listed as financing gives
PwC 6.9.3.1's constructive treatment of expenses an owner paid.
rules.md B-14 quotes the sources; new tests cite them; docs/testing.md
#8 is resolved.
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Each formerly ASSUMED behavior is now CONFIRMED, CONVENTION, DESIGN, or
CHANGE (pending), with its source (Reg. S-X, ASC 230 via Deloitte DART,
IRS K-1 instructions, OpenStax). Two need engine work: members' equity
should allocate cumulatively so each member's beginning equals the prior
ending (#7), and the cash flow should show financing gross and classify
investing by account role (#8). Two questions for the CPA are listed.
The test doc comments that relied on them now cite the verdicts.
Core mutation run: 1,011 caught + 13 timeouts of 1,024 viable, 0 missed.
No benchmark budget, by decision.
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CI's run of the store refusal property found a payroll run that posted
$65.27794: the employer tax was passed in unrounded and nothing refused
it, though rules.md B-3 already says a ledger in one money holds no
fractions of its smallest unit. Sums of it then differed in scale
between journal replay and the SQLite read-back.
- Ledger::post_entry refuses any line finer than its currency's ISO 4217
minor unit (FinerThanMinorUnit), whatever made the line: payroll,
closes, disposals. add_line refuses it up front. Older journals replay
as booked through replay_post_entry. Spec tests for the kernel's
ten-place limit now run on the replay path.
- The property's body is now run_ops, so failing sequences become named
regression tests (regression_payroll_with_a_fraction_of_a_cent). The
generator rounds payroll tax to the cent, as callers must.
- Ledger derives PartialEq and gains differs_from; Store::verify compares
the live ledger with the journal replay in full (drafts, documents,
schedules, periods, settings), not just balances, and names the parts
that differ. The property checks the ledger its commands built against
that replay and against the reopened books.
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The refusal property now starts from real books and adds compound
commands with valid arguments (book an entry, register an asset or
schedule, raise an invoice or bill, close a month to members), so every
command's success path is exercised. Compound commands checkpoint after
each step, so the law is checked against the one command refused.
STORE_CASES sets the case count (256 by default).
It found two bugs:
- run_recurring created drafts dated inside a closed period (B-12).
generate_recurring now refuses them, atomically; the store leaves
them ungenerated and books.run_recurring reports them in
skipped_closed_period for a human to decide. Replay uses
replay_generate_recurring so older journals still open. The store
also journals before mutating the ledger here, as everywhere else.
- Disposing an asset for no proceeds (scrapping it) journaled a
catch-up depreciation entry and a half-built draft with a 0.00 line,
then refused. Zero lines are now left out (Store::disposal_lines,
shared with the MCP preview), and the whole disposal is rehearsed on
a clone before anything is written.
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Max-testing pass, step 8. The final mutation run left 112 survivors
(89% caught). Three agents triaged them by file, by the playbook's
table: spec the boundary then test it, a law rather than one more
pinned value, assert the real value, never weaken a test. Every expected
value is hand-computed.
- reports.rs (35): 28 killed, chiefly cash flow (inclusive start date,
each line's sign and label, a loss on disposal moving to investing,
financing designation), general ledger and members' equity date
boundaries, and the balanced() checks (a real report nudged by a cent
must stop balancing). 7 equivalent: four >/>= after an early return on
zero; two in dead code (removed in this commit); one sign of a zero
cleaned on output.
- ledger.rs, kernel.rs, journal.rs, money.rs (52, plus one new): 49
killed, including every replay_* mutant at the core level (ids,
accumulation, status, vendor tags, out-of-order refusal), FX rates,
0%/100% deductible boundaries, a dividend sweep with no income, the
legacy member rounding at close, a bill paid on its own date, a
liability-account reconciliation, mixed-currency entries (via serde),
ISO 4217 minor units, Display/Debug. 3 equivalent: zero refused before
a </<= check; a period whose end is in a closed period refused earlier;
columns(0).
- schedules, tax, analysis, payouts, assets, form1099 (25): 23 killed
(schedule length 1-600, recurring end on its start, frequency parsing
and stepping, cost of goods in tax net, a zero payout, disposal on the
purchase date, quarter starts, labels); 2 equivalent (zero adds zero;
days_held is provably >= 1).
Two small production cleanups the triage surfaced: kernel::columns(0)
returned a negative-zero credit that would print "-0" (regression
a_zero_movement_has_no_negative_zero_column, shown to fail before); and
cash_flow computed a book value it never used.
Spec lines added where a boundary wasn't specified (cash flow's
inclusive start and line signs, members' equity start date, payout with
no deposit, disposal on the purchase date, bill paid on its own date).
`just mutants` now runs core and store tests (the store's replay tests),
not the whole workspace, which rebuilt the viewer for every mutant.
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Max-testing pass, rank 3. tests/model.rs transcribes the Lean ledger
state machine (verify/lean/Wanderbooks/Ledger.lean) into the plainest
Rust with the same observable behavior: lists of accounts, drafts,
posted entries, and periods. Random command sequences (add account,
draft, add line, a balanced pair of lines, post, reverse, create period,
close), weighted toward commands that interact, run against both; after
every command the engine and the model must make the same accept/refuse
decision and agree on the posted log line for line, the chart, drafts,
periods, ids, and every account's balance. 2,048 sequences of up to 60
commands; about 3s.
Honest about its first version: it agreed vacuously. Counting accepted
commands (MODEL_STATS=1) showed zero posts and zero reversals: random
lines never balance. A balanced-pair command fixed it (now ~150 posts,
~100 reversals, ~200 closes per 512 sequences). Shown to have teeth:
letting the model reverse an entry twice fails in 0.03s.
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Three spec decisions from the owner (2026-10-13), raised by the spec-blind
test writers, each test-first:
- A payment dated before its invoice or bill is refused
(PaymentBeforeDocument); a real prepayment is a deposit. Test:
a_payment_never_predates_its_document. Replay is unaffected (it goes
through replay_invoice_payment / replay_bill_payment).
- Aging as of a date shows only documents issued by then, less only the
payments made by then. The ledger now records each document's payment
entries (live and on replay), and aging counts those dated by as_of.
Test: aging_as_of_a_date_sees_only_what_existed_then; the A/R and A/P
conservation properties' aging oracles updated to the confirmed rule
(they had assumed aging ignored dates).
- A schedule through a mid-month date prorates that month by days; the
code was right and its doc wrong. The spec-blind test that disagreed is
rewritten to the confirmed spec and no longer ignored.
Also found while wiring payments: a payment to an unknown cash account
created the payment's draft and then failed, leaving it behind; the cash
account is now checked before anything is created.
The unreviewed golden van_schedule.json is gone: every row was first
checked against an independent hand computation (all 61 matched), then
replaced by van_schedule_is_the_hand_computed_one, which asserts that
computation directly (548.39, 59 x 1,000.00, 451.61; total 60,000.00).
Tests: 452. No spec-disagreements left ignored.
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Max-testing pass, steps 2-4.
Spec-blind tests (rank 1-2): four agents, each given only the specs and
the public interface (doc comments and signatures, every body removed,
never src/ or the existing tests), wrote tests/spec_reports.rs (62),
spec_ledger.rs (72), spec_arap.rs (42), spec_assets_payroll.rs (50):
hand-computed examples per scenario and a proptest law per invariant
(conservation, partition, invariance, scaling, reversal cancels,
"a refusal leaves the books unchanged" over random invalid commands).
They found:
1. A refused payroll run changed the books: an all-zero run passed
validation, then failed at post after creating seven payroll
accounts and using up an entry id. validate_payroll_lines now
refuses a run with no gross pay.
2. A refused add_account used up an account id (empty code, duplicate,
unknown parent). The id is now taken only when the account is added.
3. Stale prose: close_period_to and members_equity still described the
old last-member rounding.
4. Open (left #[ignore]d pending the owner): depreciation_schedule's doc
says "through the month containing" the date; the code prorates that
month by days.
GnuCash oracle (rank 3, an oracle never the spec): `just oracle` builds
GnuCash 5.10 in a container pinned by base digest and package versions
(oracle/gnucash/) and runs tests/oracle_gnucash.rs: 200 seeded random
books built through wanderbooks (entries, foreign lines, reversals,
monthly closes), every account's balance at month ends and random dates
and each month's P&L, compared exactly: 15,800 comparisons. First run:
4,724 differences, all from foreign lines; without them, zero.
Adjudicated from principles (rules.md B-3): wanderbooks booked
foreign * rate unrounded ($108.34567); a ledger in one money holds no
fractions of its smallest unit, and its cash must match a bank. The owner
decided: book in the base currency's minor unit, half away from zero.
add_line_fx now rounds; minor units per ISO 4217 list one (2026-09-17,
SIX), generated into Currency::minor_units and recorded in
docs/spec/sources/iso-4217.md. Replay now takes the journaled base
amount (replay_add_line_fx), so lines booked before replay exactly as
booked (contract: books_written_under_older_rules_still_open). Now:
zero differences, foreign lines included.
Tests: 449, from 223.
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Three spec decisions from the owner (2026-10-13), each test-first:
- A child account has its parent's type (ParentTypeMismatch): a child
subdivides its parent. Test: a_child_account_has_its_parents_type.
- Periods nest (a month in a quarter in a year) but never partially
overlap (PeriodsOverlap; a refusal uses no id). Test:
periods_nest_but_never_partially_overlap.
- A line's account must exist and take postings when the line is added,
not only at post (UnknownAccount / PlaceholderAccount from add_line
and add_line_fx); posting still re-checks. Two older tests that pinned
the post-time refusal now check both (the post-time check is reached
through the unchecked replay path, as old journals can).
Compatibility: replay reads history through new Ledger::replay_*
commands (add_account, add_line, add_line_fx, create_period) that skip
checks added later, so books written before these rules still open.
The contract test books_written_under_older_rules_still_open writes such
a journal directly and found, on its first run, that the SQLite
cross-check rebuild used the checked commands and would have failed
verification ("sqlite projection can't be read back"); it now replays
too. Documented in docs/spec/README.md; decisions recorded in rules.md
(B-1, B-4, B-12).
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The owner (2026-10-13): when what wanderbooks knows is stale, check the
date, research it or ask the owner or CPA, and update the rule for
everyone with a pull request (best) or an issue (worst).
- ledger_core::rules: a registry of rules set by law that change over
time. Each says the years it's known for, its rules.md entry, its
vendored official source, and a review date. stale_rules(today) is
pure; the engine has no clock.
- The 1099 threshold is the first: $600 through 2025, $2,000 in 2026,
then indexed for inflation (26 U.S.C. §6041(h)). default_threshold
and vendor_1099_report now return Result; for 2027+ they refuse with
LedgerError::RuleNotKnown, whose message says what to do: get the
figure from the official source or the owner/CPA, pass it explicitly,
then open a PR (or issue) at github.com/swaits/wanderbooks. Before,
2027+ silently used $2,000.
- MCP: books.vendor_1099 relays that refusal; books.digest gains
stale_rules; the server instructions tell the agent the procedure (and
how to handle control-account conflicts: explain, never renumber).
The CPA package writes a NOT-INCLUDED note instead of a guessed 1099
worksheet.
- Viewer: "Needs attention" shows each stale rule with a ready prompt
for the agent; the 1099 page explains instead of guessing.
Review date for the 1099 rule: 2026-11-01, when the IRS usually
publishes next year's inflation adjustments (CONVENTION, marked as such
in the registry).
Tests: an_unknown_year_threshold_is_never_guessed,
dated_rules_go_stale_on_their_review_date (dates passed in, so no clock
in the test), MCP stdio: 2027 refused with guidance, explicit threshold
accepted, digest carries stale_rules (asserted date-independently).
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Invoices, bills, payments, payroll, and closes post to accounts the
engine finds by code (1200, 2000, 4000, 6999, 3999, 6100-2150). If an
account with that code existed it was used whatever its type: a 1200
"Customer Deposits" liability would have taken receivables. Now
(the owner, 2026-10-13: never force an imported chart into our numbering)
the engine refuses with ControlAccountMismatch, naming the code, the
account, its type, the role, and the type needed, so the agent can work
it out with the human. A placeholder is refused too.
Every command checks all its control accounts before changing anything
(Ledger::check_controls, spec + SOURCE in its doc comment), so a refusal
never leaves a half-made account behind. One table of control accounts
(ledger_core::RECEIVABLES ... PAYROLL) replaces the codes duplicated
across the engine and the store.
Tests (spec-derived, all assert the books are untouched after the
refusal): an_invoice_refuses_a_1200_that_is_not_receivables,
an_invoice_refuses_a_placeholder_1200,
an_invoice_creates_nothing_when_its_second_account_is_wrong,
a_bill_refuses_a_2000_that_is_not_payables,
a_close_refuses_a_3999_that_is_not_equity.
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Max-testing pass, step 2: two spec decisions the owner confirmed
(2026-10-13), each test-first.
Aging (arap::aging_bucket): a document due today was "1-30 days past
due"; it is Current, since past due starts the day after (QuickBooks'
convention). Spec in the doc comment. Boundary examples at every edge
(due today, 1, 30, 31, 60, 61, 90, 91 days) fail on the old code. A
property: the balance lands in exactly one bucket, and time only ages
it.
Member splits (periods::allocate): the last member absorbed every odd
cent, so the same partner always got or lost it. Now largest remainder:
each share rounded toward zero to the cent, leftover cents to the
largest remainders, ties to the earlier member, a loss the negation of
the gain. The core is a new kernel function, kernel::apportion,
allocation-free so Kani proves it (n <= 3): apportion_is_exact (it
succeeds exactly when the shortfall is under a unit per part; then the
parts sum to the whole, each gains 0 or 1 unit, one may take the
sub-unit fraction) and apportion_is_fair (never a unit to a part while
a larger remainder goes without). Kani found an off-by-one in the first
version: a shortfall of n units plus a fraction was accepted. Native
regression apportion_refuses_a_shortfall_of_a_unit_per_part_or_more.
Properties at Decimal (2,000 cases, up to 5 members): conservation,
within a cent of each exact share, fairness, sign symmetry; they fail on
the old rule. Bridge: apportion agrees on i64 and Decimal.
Contract: closes journaled before this change replay exactly. New
member closes journal "rounding": "largest_remainder"; journal lines
without it replay as CloseTo::MembersLastAbsorbs, the old rule
(periods::allocate_last_absorbs, pinned by
closes_journaled_under_the_old_rule_replay_with_it). The members'
equity statement isn't journaled and uses the new rule.
Open gap: Lean proof of apportion's sum law for any n (needs a
permutation lemma on the ranking); Kani covers n <= 3, properties n <= 5.
The Lean closing theorems already hold for any split summing to the
net.
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Max-testing pass, step 2 (rank 1 regressions + a rank 2 law). Two ways
to make the books unopenable, both found by test, both fixed:
1. Reversing into a closed period: the store journaled `entry.reversed`,
then the engine refused it at post. Replay could never apply that
line, so Store::open failed ("period 1 is closed"). Regression:
reversal_into_a_closed_period_is_refused_before_journaling.
2. An oversized invoice (or any command whose hand-written store
pre-checks lagged the engine, here the new line range) journaled,
then failed in the engine. Found by the new property
refused_commands_never_reach_the_journal within 4s.
The fix is structural, not another hand-written check: every
journal-first store command now rehearses on a scratch clone of the
ledger (`Store::rehearse`), so whatever the engine refuses is refused
before the journal, now and after any future engine change. The
create_entry rehearsal uses the checked constructor: no draft is ever
dated in a closed period (the Lean invariant Inv.draftsOpen, which the
store had bypassed).
The property (1,000 random command sequences, heavy on refusals)
asserts, after every command: a refusal leaves the journal
byte-identical; every posted entry validates; the trial balance
balances; no draft sits in a closed period; and the books reopen and
verify at the end. Shown to have teeth: removing the create_entry
rehearsal makes it fail and shrink to open-period, close, draft.
Engine (spec confirmed by the owner, 2026-10-13), Ledger::check_reversal,
a pure pre-check that reverse_entry and the store share:
- an entry is reversed at most once (EntryAlreadyReversed); reversing
the reversal re-instates it;
- a closing entry is never reversed (ClosingEntryIrreversible);
- a refused reversal leaves no trace (it used to leave a draft and
burn an id).
Specs go in doc comments as a ```text GOAL/INVARIANTS/SCENARIOS block.
New dev dependency: proptest for ledger-store (already the workspace's
property library).
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The money arithmetic every invariant rests on now lives in one kernel,
ledger-core/src/kernel.rs: signing a line, totals, net, per-account
movements, reversal, normal balances, trial-balance columns, closing
lines, and the rounding plug for member splits. It is generic over a
checked `Amount` trait. The engine runs it on Decimal (validate,
movements, reverse_entry, account_balance, close_period_to, allocate,
trial_balance): there is one copy of the arithmetic, and it is the one
under proof.
Three layers, docs/verification.md maps every law to its proofs:
- Kani (src/proofs.rs): 17 harnesses prove the kernel at i64 for every
input up to 4 lines over 3 accounts. An entry is accepted exactly
when it is two or more positive, in-range lines whose debits equal
credits; accepted entries net to zero; grouping by account loses
nothing; a reversal mirrors and cancels its original; trial-balance
columns balance iff the books net to zero; closing lines zero their
accounts and a close balances however the net is split; the plug
makes parts sum to the whole. No panics, no overflow. kani::cover!
shows the proofs are not vacuous.
- Lean 4 (verify/lean): 24 headline theorems for books of any size. The
ledger is a state machine (add account, draft, post, reverse, open,
close), and in every reachable state the books net to zero, the trial
balance balances (as of any date), and the accounting equation holds.
Posting only appends ("posted is forever"), closed periods are
frozen, a close zeroes revenue and expenses and credits exactly the net
income, and period statements add up. Audit.lean shows standard axioms
only, no sorry.
- Bridge (tests/kernel_bridge.rs): the Decimal and i64 kernels agree.
What the proofs found (each one missed by every test, fuzzer, and
mutant):
- The engine accepted negative line amounts; only MCP refused them. Now
NegativeAmountLine: direction is the side's job.
- Summing lines near Decimal::MAX panicked. Lines are now capped at one
quadrillion and ten decimal places (AmountOutOfRange), which keeps
every realistic sum exact, and the kernel's sums are checked.
- FX conversion (foreign_amount * fx_rate) could panic the same way; it
is now a checked multiply.
- Kani itself: 0.68 mis-models symbolic-length copy_from_slice
(model-checking/kani#4904) and reported a reversal that doesn't net to
zero. The counterexample, replayed natively, passes, and a 15-line
standalone crate reproduces the bug. Harnesses avoid bulk copies, and
a should_panic canary will flag the upstream fix.
`just prove` runs it all (Kani memory- and time-capped, fails on an
unsatisfiable cover or a non-standard Lean axiom). AGENTS.md now makes
formal coverage part of every core change.
Also, docs: GnuCash is *an* oracle, never *the* oracle (the owner). The
spec is accounting principles, proved. Golden files are recomputed from
principles. External implementations (GnuCash, the old Sheet, QBO/Xero)
are cross-checks whose disagreements get adjudicated, never obeyed.
docs/oracle.md gains "Who is right"; AGENTS, README, architecture,
roadmap, parity, and STATUS are reworded to match.
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egui/wgpu app for owners and their accountant: Overview, Cash, Profit,
Transactions (with rendered receipts and journal history), Reports
(statements with interval columns, comparisons, drill-down), Accounts,
Documents, Company, Journal; Ctrl+K palette; back/forward; light/dark.
Follows the journal live (~30 ms from write to screen). --demo opens a
deterministic demo company, also used for screenshot tests.
Engine: ledger-store Snapshot (read-only, incremental, tolerant of a
half-written tail); ledger-core analysis (intervals, balance series,
P&L by interval, cash flows); ledger-config extracted from ledger-mcp
with the full company profile and cash_accounts.
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Vendors carry form_1099 (NEC/MISC) and tin_on_file (never the TIN).
Entries carry the vendor they paid; bills, bill payments, and reversals
are tagged automatically. books.vendor_1099 counts cash paid per vendor
per calendar year (card payments excluded) against $600 through 2025 and
$2,000 from 2026, or an override, and flags missing W-9s. Four new tools
(64), two journal events, schema v7. Docs: finished R-FUTURE work is no
longer listed as future.
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A platform deposit becomes a draft entry with the deposit, fees,
adjustments, and gross revenue (by class), refused unless gross - fees
+/- adjustments equals the deposit to the cent. The payout statement is
attached as its receipt before posting. 60 tools.
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