Refined accounting pipeline with debt metrics and logging

• Day: 2026-04-18
• Time: 10:25 to 10:35
• Project: Accounting
• Workspace: WP 2: Operational
• Status: In Progress
• Priority: HIGH
• Assignee: Matías Nehuen Iglesias
• Tags: Makefile, Debt-Resolution, Metrics, Logging, Pipeline-Debugging, Observability

Description

Session Goal

Advance a modular accounting pipeline so debt resolution runs before downstream metrics and human-facing outputs, while improving observability and clarifying the remaining last-mile work for the next iteration.

Key Activities

• Reviewed proposed Makefile target ordering to ensure the accounting pipeline executes in the correct sequence: debt resolution first, then metrics, then human balance generation.
• Identified likely failure points around path resolution and alias mismatches that could produce empty or incorrect downstream outputs.
• Evaluated two low-friction fixes for .env loading and confirmed a probable path bug preventing debt metric files from being discovered by later stages.
• Assessed a successful pipeline run and distinguished between blocking failures and non-blocking warnings in materialize, metrics validation, and debt logging.
• Proposed a logging governance redesign for the debt resolver, replacing noisy print debugging with structured logging aligned to stage-level observability.
• Captured a handoff for a new iteration focused on the human outputs of the accounting pipeline: tables, narrative interpretation, and targeted code improvements.

Achievements

• Clarified the intended execution order for the accounting workflow and the dependency between debt resolution and downstream reporting.
• Narrowed the likely root causes of missing or incorrect outputs to path bugs, environment loading, and naming/alias mismatches.
• Confirmed the pipeline can complete end-to-end with non-blocking warnings, meaning the current work is optimization and robustness rather than recovery from a hard failure.
• Established a clearer observability strategy for future debugging by separating INFO/WARNING/DEBUG-style signals in the debt resolver.
• Defined the next iteration as a human-facing accounting review rather than a broad pipeline rewrite.

Pending Tasks

• Verify and fix the debt metrics path resolution so downstream files are found reliably.
• Validate .env loading behavior in the Make-based execution flow.
• Check counterparty label aliases between source data and builder filters to avoid silent mismatches.
• Inspect the human bundle and validation report to confirm the quality of the generated narrative and tables.
• Implement structured logging in the debt resolver if observability remains insufficient.

Evidence

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