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`wanderbooks books put-aside ID DATA-DIR [--vault DIR --vault-key FILE] [PATH...]` moves the old copies of adopted books (their data folder, their TIN vault and its key, their settings file, the git history around them, old exports) whole into numbered folders of their own in the root's legacy/, a list of where each came from written and synced first. Nothing is deleted. Refused unless the books hold everything the old copy does, byte for byte (journal, stored files, vault records, key; what adoption left behind and records the books sealed anew are listed and go aside too); while a wanderbooks process holds it open for writing; when its head moved since the preview; for links, paths named twice, inside the root or missing, a vault or key given as a plain path, and paths on another disk. Renames never replace anything, and a move cut short puts back what it moved. Three review rounds of data safety. The plan records the cutover's answers (Q-3: move the old copies aside; the backup repository and folder). Also: `connect`'s "the books fernhill' agent token" reads properly, and the restart tests wait for a copied program to be runnable (a child forked by another test while the copy was written made it "text file busy"). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T3gXMVt7XJPi6ens1or9Dj
wanderbooks
Canonical double-entry bookkeeping, rebuilt from scratch. The engine is verified against oracles, parity is tracked automatically, and the primary interface is AI-first: you talk to an agent, the agent drives the books through MCP. Self-hosted, no rent.
What it is
ledger-core— the semantics engine. Exact decimal money, five account types, balanced journal entries, immutable posted log with reversing entries, trial balance, P&L, balance sheet, indirect-method cash flow, fixed-asset register with straight-line depreciation.ledger-store— durable storage. The source of truth is an append-only, hash-chained JSONL journal; SQLite is a disposable projection rebuilt from it; receipts live in a content-addressed blob store. Drafts are durable, corrupt projections self-heal.ledger-mcp— the AI-first interface. 64 MCP tools over stdio or Streamable HTTP: draft → preview → post workflow, server-side receipt policy (>$25), anti-splitting detection, asset management, digest for human review, plus read-only resources for dashboards.ledger-import— QuickBooks interop. Import bank/credit-card CSVs and chart-of-accounts CSVs; export IIF journal entries (for QuickBooks Desktop) and XLSX reports.ledger-config— the company settings in a books dir'swanderbooks.toml.ledger-gui— the viewer: a read-only, live window on the books for owners and their accountant (egui). Answers first (cash, runway, profit, what needs attention), then every number drills down to its lines, its entry, the rendered receipt, and the journal history. Follows the journal live: a change the agent makes appears in milliseconds.--demoopens a realistic demo company.
Verification
This is the storytold way applied to accounting: agents verify against oracles, never ship what they haven't demonstrated.
- 190+ workspace tests: invariant tests encoding accounting law, golden-file report snapshots, property tests (proptest), end-to-end MCP stdio tests.
- Formal proofs of the accounting laws (
just prove,docs/verification.md). Kani model-checks the engine's arithmetic kernel exhaustively within bounds. Lean 4 proves that, after any sequence of commands, the trial balance balances, the accounting equation holds, posted entries are forever, closed periods stay frozen, and a close moves exactly the net income to equity. The first pass found three engine bugs that every test, fuzzer, and mutant had missed: negative amounts accepted, and two crashes on oversized amounts. It also caught a soundness bug in the model checker itself. - Mutation testing via cargo-mutants; fuzzing via cargo-fuzz (11.5M+ executions, zero crashes).
- GnuCash is a behavioral cross-check, never the authority and never a code source (clean room, MIT OR Apache-2.0). Accounting principles, proved, are the spec. Where any other program disagrees, we work out from principles who is right.
Status
Parity is 12 of 12 against the spreadsheet workflow it replaces
(docs/capability-parity.md). The parallel-run plan
(docs/parallel-run.md) is written; the Google Sheet stays the system of
record until a clean month and explicit cutover approval.
See plan/STATUS.md for where things stand and
plan/roadmap.md for where it's going.
Quickstart
cargo test # whole suite
cargo run -p ledger-mcp -- --data-dir /tmp/books # MCP server over stdio
cargo run -p ledger-gui -- --demo # the viewer, on a demo company
New books, one command (installs Rust and wanderbooks if needed, makes the
books' private folder, starts books called acme and lets Claude Code reach
them; nothing needs sudo):
curl -fsSL https://wanderbooks.ai/install.sh | sh -s -- acme
Already installed, three commands: wanderbooks setup, wanderbooks books create acme, wanderbooks connect claude --book acme (or connect codex).
Then talk to the agent; wanderbooks gui acme shows the books, and its
Books menu backs them up, restores, starts new books and closes them.
Developing
Every tool the recipes use (Rust, just, Kani, Lean, cargo-mutants,
cargo-fuzz, Node for deploys) is pinned in mise.toml:
mise install
just # lists the recipes: check, build, prove, demo, ...
Layout
crates/ledger-core/ # engine: money, accounts, journal, ledger, reports
crates/ledger-store/ # journal + SQLite projection + blob store
crates/ledger-mcp/ # MCP server: 108 tools, resources, handbook, receipt policy
crates/ledger-import/ # QBO CSV import, IIF/XLSX export
crates/ledger-config/ # wanderbooks.toml company settings
crates/ledger-cli/ # `wanderbooks`: the one executable (every mode)
crates/ledger-host/ # the host, the agents' bridge, the owner's commands
crates/ledger-package/ # The CPA package and the 1099 worksheet (server and viewer)
crates/ledger-gui/ # the viewer: read-only, live (egui)
docs/ # requirements, architecture, oracle, parity, glossary
plan/ # STATUS.md, roadmap.md
AGENTS.md # operating manual for agents working here
License
MIT OR Apache-2.0. See LICENSE-MIT and LICENSE-APACHE.