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closes: a run of members closes splits cumulatively
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.

Wanderland's books have no closes yet, so all of theirs use the new rule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GWVo7x3UHw5kwCUaWxiejX
2026-10-13 18:58:21 -06:00

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's wanderbooks.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. --demo opens 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 dir with the MCP server registered for it, and starts the agent):

curl -fsSL https://wanderbooks.ai/install.sh | sh -s -- ~/Books/Acme

Already installed: wanderbooks new ~/Books/Acme (add --codex to keep the books with Codex instead of Claude Code). In a books dir, just lists the shortcuts (just gui, just agent, just backup).

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: 64 tools, resources, receipt policy
crates/ledger-import/  # QBO CSV import, IIF/XLSX export
crates/ledger-config/  # wanderbooks.toml company settings
crates/ledger-cli/     # `wanderbooks new`: one-command books dir + agent
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.

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