Refactored debt and human balance reporting architecture

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Refactored debt and human balance reporting architecture

  • Day: 2026-04-18
  • Time: 10:25 to 10:35
  • Project: Dev
  • Workspace: WP 2: Operational
  • Status: In Progress
  • Priority: HIGH
  • Assignee: Matías Nehuen Iglesias
  • Tags: Metrics-Architecture, Debt, Cash, Reporting, Refactor, Python

Description

Session Goal

Align the existing financial reporting stack with a more modular, canonical metrics architecture by integrating debt into the metrics layer and refactoring human-facing balance report generation.

Key Activities

  • Reviewed the current state of the financial metrics pipeline and confirmed that cash is already integrated, while debt still needs promotion into the canonical metrics layer.
  • Defined a minimal v1 debt integration plan that mirrors the cash pipeline: create canonical debt balance artifacts, extend MetricsContext and the registry, add debt builders/exports, and include validations without disturbing existing cash or income behavior.
  • Proposed a script-based canonicalization workflow that converts debt_open_items.[[csv]] into daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly debt snapshots plus a manifest, preparing the data for downstream loading and registry registration.
  • Drafted a conservative PR brief focused on adding debt balances, monthly views, and validation checks while preserving current system behavior.
  • Evaluated the broader financial reporting stack and concluded that the core layers are mature; the main remaining gap is human-facing packaging: clearer narrative outputs, debt/cash drilldowns, and executive-ready story items.
  • Refactored the human balance reporting design toward a shared table-spec architecture, separating table construction from the document factory to reduce coupling and improve maintainability.
  • Proposed extracting table logic into a pure module (human_balance_tables.py) and keeping human_balance_document_factory.py as the orchestration/rendering layer.

Achievements

  • Clarified the technical path for debt metrics integration with a minimal, low-risk scope.
  • Established a canonical artifact strategy for debt that matches the existing cash pipeline.
  • Identified the last-mile reporting bottleneck as presentation and narrative packaging, not core data correctness.
  • Produced a cleaner modular design for human balance reports, with shared specs/builders and a factory that only orchestrates output generation.

Pending Tasks

  • Implement the debt canonicalization script and manifest generation.
  • Extend MetricsContext, registry entries, and builders to load debt balance artifacts.
  • Add debt exports, monthly views, and validation coverage.
  • Update the human balance report pipeline to use the new shared table-spec module.
  • Expand required metric-view checks for newly supported debt, QA, and rent detail artifacts.
  • Build stronger executive-facing narrative outputs and drilldowns for the reporting stack.

Evidence

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