wanderbooks/plan/STATUS.md

STATUS — 2026-10-11 (all 10 natural next steps done; repo now public)

Where we are

All ten natural next steps are done, tested, and pushed. The repo is now public. Parity is 12 of 12 against the spreadsheet workflow.

Done:

• Repo swaits/wanderbooks on git.swaits.com (public as of 2026-10-11).
• ledger-core 0.1.0: Money (exact Decimal + ISO currency), five account types with normal sides, chart of accounts (codes, hierarchy, placeholders), journal entries with full validation, Ledger command surface (create/add-line/post/reverse), append-only posting log.
• Reports: trial balance, P&L, balance sheet (accounting equation holds; current earnings folded into equity pre-close), canonical JSON snapshot() for oracle diffing.
• 14 tests green: validation rejections, posted-entry immutability, reversal semantics, the accounting laws on a fixture company, a 300-entry randomized invariant test, and the first golden file.
• ledger-store 0.1.0: the source of truth is an append-only, hash-chained JSONL journal (fsync per append; tamper-evident); content-addressed SHA-256 blob store (immutable, deduplicated, hash-verified on read); SQLite as a disposable projection (TEXT amounts, WAL, synchronous=FULL, integrity_check on open). Single write path: validate → journal → mutate → apply. verify replays the journal and diffs reports three ways; rebuild drops SQLite and replays; a missing database heals on open. 7 tests green: round-trip, tamper detection, torn-tail truncation, rebuild, blob dedup/corruption detection, unbalanced-post rejection.
• ledger-mcp 0.1.0: stdio server on official rmcp 3.5 (23 narrow typed tools, amounts as decimal strings, initialize.instructions carrying the agent operating contract). Draft → add lines → preview → confirmed post; server-side receipt policy (strictly greater than $25, per-account overrides, typed receipt_required rejection); digest; search; CSV/JSON export; period P&L and as-of balance sheet; fixed-asset tools (register, schedule, list, run-depreciation, dispose with preview). End-to-end stdio protocol tests green (initialize → tools → draft → preview → receipt_required → attach → post → reports → digest → reverse; and a full asset flow: register → schedule → idempotent runs → disposal preview → receipt_required → bill-of-sale → confirmed disposal → gain posted).
• Fixed assets (ledger-core + ledger-store + ledger-mcp): fixed-asset register (description, purchase date, cost, salvage, useful life, linked cost/accumulated-depreciation/expense accounts), straight-line book depreciation with day-prorated partial months and a final-month true-up so the lifetime total is exactly (cost − salvage), idempotent monthly runs, disposal with auto-posted final depreciation and gain/loss. Tax depreciation stays with the CPA. Tests: 10 asset unit tests (ledger-core), 6 store tests, 7 property tests, MCP e2e.
• Testing initiative (in progress): proptest property suite on ledger-core (trial balance always balances, A = L + E, reversals restore zero, posted-entry immutability, JSON round-trip, depreciation exactness — the last caught a real month-length-drift bug, fixed with the final-month true-up); cargo-mutants run on ledger-core (228 mutants); cargo-fuzz targets (journal-line parsing, entry validation, op sequences) scaffolded.
• 40+ tests green workspace-wide; cargo fmt clean; clippy clean except one pre-existing phase-1 style lint on a public engine signature.
• Docs: AGENTS.md (operating manual), requirements, architecture, oracle design, parity catalog (floor: 10 done), glossary, mcp-interface (incl. the 5 asset tools), receipt-store (journal design), capability-parity (10 of 12 rows covered). Plan: this file + roadmap.

In progress: nothing — the next arcs are queued below, unstarted.

Next arcs (in order)

The project went AI-first on 2026-10-10 (Stephen's call): the primary interface is MCP, not a cloned GUI. The first storage + MCP slice is done (arcs 1–3 below). What remains:

1. ledger-store done — journal + blob store + SQLite projection.
2. Blob store done — folded into ledger-store.
3. ledger-mcp done — 18 tools, receipt policy, digest, export. Remaining from the spec: MCP resources (rmcp 3.x has no resource macros; hand-roll list_resources/read_resource next), Streamable HTTP transport, XLSX/IIF export formats.
4. Capability parity (docs/capability-parity.md): 11 of 12 rows covered; full CPA export (xlsx/iif) remains. Then the month-long parallel run against the GSheet; cutover per the cutover rule.
5. Then: oracle harness (GnuCash diff), read-only GUI on the event log, workflow parity.

Decisions log

• 2026-10-10: Single currency per ledger for day one (R-5). Multi-currency is designed-for, not built.
• 2026-10-10: Money arithmetic is checked and returns Result; no panicking ops, no float paths anywhere.
• 2026-10-10: Negative zero is normalized away at account_balance — money never prints "-0". (Caught by the golden test on day one; the oracle works.)
• 2026-10-10: License MIT OR Apache-2.0, matching the storytold projects. GnuCash clean-room boundary documented in docs/oracle.md.
• 2026-10-10: AI-first pivot (Stephen). Primary interface is MCP (docs/mcp-interface.md), not a cloned GUI. Receipts/documents become a content-addressed blob store (docs/receipt-store.md). Parity target for the phase is the GSheet+GDrive system (docs/capability-parity.md), with a parallel-run cutover rule. GUI drops to read-only, event-log-driven, phase 4.
• 2026-10-10: Import/export targets QuickBooks formats (CSV, IIF, XLSX) — "could not give a single shit about GnuCash XML." GnuCash stays the behavioral oracle only. Receipt enforcement is server-side policy in the MCP layer (threshold + per-account overrides, typed receipt_required error, checklist in every preview); the engine stays policy-free.
• 2026-10-10: Storage durability (Stephen). SQLite is the query engine, not the source of truth: the source of truth is an append-only, hash-chained JSONL journal (fsync per append; tamper-evident; git-backup-friendly), SQLite is a disposable projection rebuilt from it, blobs stay content-addressed. Single write path: journal → fsync → apply to SQLite.
• 2026-10-10: Draft durability (house decision). Drafts are durable, not ephemeral: entry.created + entry.line_added journal lines record the draft as the agent builds it, so drafts and their attached receipts survive restarts. Drafts never touch the SQLite projection until posted. Rationale: the journal is the source of truth (phantom entry.created lines without draft lines were the worst of both worlds), and the draft → attach receipts → post workflow spans multiple MCP calls.
• 2026-10-10: Corrupt SQLite heals itself. If the projection fails integrity_check (or isn't a database at all), Store::open quarantines it to wanderbooks.corrupt.<timestamp> and rebuilds from the journal, instead of failing open. WAL/SHM are dropped as derived state.
• 2026-10-10: Cash flow statement (R-FUTURE-3) done. Engine reports::cash_flow (indirect method) + books.cash_flow MCP tool (24 tools total). Disposals identified structurally; gains/losses move from operating to investing; the three sections always reconcile to the net change in the designated cash accounts. Two invariant tests, including a full purchase → depreciate → dispose cycle.
• 2026-10-10: MCP resources done (hand-rolled list_resources / read_resource: chart, trial-balance, balance-sheet, profit-and-loss, digest, receipts). #[tool_handler] must sit on the impl ServerHandler block, not the inherent impl — misplacing it silently drops all tools.
• 2026-10-10: QuickBooks interop (R-FUTURE-4) done. New ledger-import crate: QBO bank CSV parse (3-col and 4-col layouts), chart CSV parse, IIF journal generation, XLSX report generation (rust_xlsxwriter, MIT). MCP: books.import_bank_csv (drafts + categorization rules), books.import_chart_csv (all-or-nothing), books.export gains xlsx (base64) and iif formats plus cash_flow report. 26 tools total. Capability parity 12 of 12 rows covered.
• 2026-10-10: Streamable HTTP transport done. ledger-mcp --http ADDR serves MCP at /mcp via rmcp's tower StreamableHttpService (axum). 27 tools total. Verified with curl: initialize returns SSE stream.
• 2026-10-10: Drive backfill path done. books.import_local_file reads a file from the server's filesystem into the blob store (receipt/document). The agent downloads from Drive via the CLI, then calls this — Drive credentials never enter the server.
• 2026-10-11: wanderbooks init done. New ledger-cli crate (binary wanderbooks, std-only): init [DIR] scaffolds a books dir — mise.toml (pinned Rust toolchain; tasks: build, mcp-add, backup), AGENT.md (agent operating contract: bootstrap, MCP contract, first-run onboarding incl. migration via conversation, ongoing rules), wanderbooks.toml (company profile, filled during onboarding), books-data/ + .gitignore (SQLite projection ignored; journal is the record). Fresh dirs get git init and a scaffold commit so the journal archive starts on day one. One generic init by design — no per-situation flags; the agent is the import layer (QBO/CSV/email/sheets, conversational). 5 integration tests green; clippy clean. Bootstrap: mise trust && mise install, mise run build, mise run mcp-add, then claude in the dir.
• 2026-10-11: Receipts are mutable through events, never edits (Stephen: "the journal is just a history of every single thing that happens"). books.unlink_receipt and books.withdraw_attachment (both require a reason) journal receipt.unlinked / attachment.withdrawn; nothing is erased from the journal or blob store. Unlinking can't strand an entry the receipt policy requires evidence for (attach the replacement first). link_receipt now refuses an already-linked or withdrawn attachment, which closes a silent path for moving a receipt off a posted entry; disposals check their receipt ids before posting. Schema v5. First real use: swapping the migrated Wanderland Labs .eml receipts for their PDF renders.
• 2026-10-11: The cash flow statement is a first-class output everywhere the other two statements are: cash_flow_pdf in ledger-import, a pdf format on books.export (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow), and cash-flow.pdf in the CPA package, which now requires cash_accounts (the statement reconciles to them). Known gaps, next: the P&L and balance sheet PDF/XLSX ignore start/end/as_of (all-time balances under the requested label; core needs period-scoped statements); P&L and balance sheet XLSX are totals-only; PDF amounts don't align (padding in a proportional font), no company name, negatives as "-x".
• 2026-10-11: Every statement export (csv, json, xlsx, pdf, CPA package) now renders core's period statements: the date range and as-of date are real, with a line per account. One layout (ledger-import::report: sections, lines, subtotals, totals; exact "(1,234.56)" formatting) feeds every renderer. The server reads wanderbooks.toml: company name for report headers, fiscal_year_start for fiscal YTD (end derived), and receipt_threshold (it was silently ignored before). Reports carry "Prepared from journal through seq N".