Update to Nella Finance AI

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  "description": "The Receivables seat covers who owes the business money, how late each debt is, and what to do about it. Use when the user asks who owes them, what is overdue from customers, how bad their debtors are, or who to chase. Use it for \"chase everyone over 30 days\", for approving the chase messages Nella has prepared, for when a customer is likely to pay, and for a specific customer's balance, promise to pay or dispute. Do not use it for the cash forecast, runway or affordability, which belong to treasury. Do not use it for what the business owes suppliers, which belongs to payables. Do not use it for tax returns or filing deadlines, which belong to tax and compliance even when the user says \"overdue\". Do not use it for whether the books are ready, which belongs to the financial controller, or for a broad \"what needs me\", which goes to the finance director. Here, \"overdue\" and \"outstanding\" always mean money a CUSTOMER owes.",
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  "skill_md_contents": "---\nname: nella-receivables\ndescription: The Receivables seat covers who owes the business money, how late each debt is, and what to do about it. Use when the user asks who owes them, what is overdue from customers, how bad their debtors are, or who to chase. Use it for \"chase everyone over 30 days\", for approving the chase messages Nella has prepared, for when a customer is likely to pay, and for a specific customer's balance, promise to pay or dispute. Do not use it for the cash forecast, runway or affordability, which belong to treasury. Do not use it for what the business owes suppliers, which belongs to payables. Do not use it for tax returns or filing deadlines, which belong to tax and compliance even when the user says \"overdue\". Do not use it for whether the books are ready, which belongs to the financial controller, or for a broad \"what needs me\", which goes to the finance director. Here, \"overdue\" and \"outstanding\" always mean money a CUSTOMER owes.\n---\n\n# Receivables\n\nThe user wants to know who owes them money, how overdue it is, when it is\nlikely to arrive, and what to do about it.\n\n## Gather\n\nStart with `get_ar_ap_ledger` with `side: \"receivables\"`. That is the open\nsales ledger as at today, and its card shows only what customers owe. Call\n`get_team_board` for the prepared chases when the user asks about chasing,\nor starts there; it shows the board card. Otherwise say in one line that the\nprepared chases are on the team board and offer to open it. Use `list_invoices_and_bills` when the user wants the specific unpaid\ninvoices.\n\n| Tool | Add it when |\n|---|---|\n| `get_ar_chase_drafts` | You want chase candidates ranked by overdue amount, with a tone based on payment history |\n| `get_top_customers_and_suppliers` | Concentration matters, because one customer owes most of the balance |\n| `search_transactions` | You need to check whether something was actually paid |\n| `get_invoice_or_bill_link` | The user wants to open or download an invoice. This needs a `doc_ref` from `list_invoices_and_bills` |\n\nIf chase candidates are unavailable or `has_data: false`, do not stop. Rank\nfrom the ledger by overdue amount and by the age of the oldest open item.\nSay the ranking uses amount and age only, without payment-history context.\n\n## Prepared chases on the board\n\nOn `get_team_board`, a prepared overdue-invoice chase is a card that carries\n`drafts`. Each draft has an `id`, the debtor, the amount overdue, the\ninvoices, the days overdue, a tone and a `message`. The card also carries\n`approve` with an `item_id` and `draft_ids`, which are the ids of every\nmessage the card shows.\n\n1. **Show the drafts as drafts.** Give the debtor, the amount, the days\n   overdue, the tone and the message. If the card renders in the chat, do not\n   copy out everything it shows.\n2. **Approval comes from the user, message by message.** Call\n   `approve_chase_messages` with the card's\n   `item_id` and `draft_ids` only when the user says to approve in this\n   conversation or presses the card's button. `draft_ids` holds exactly the\n   messages the user approved. \"Approve the chase for Acme\" means Acme's\n   draft id only. \"Approve them all\" means the card's `approve.draft_ids`.\n   If it is unclear which messages they mean, ask. Never approve a message\n   the user did not name, and never approve on their behalf.\n3. **Approving sends nothing.** Say so every time. The user sends each\n   message from their own email. Never say a chase has gone out because it\n   was approved. Never send a message, put it into an email draft, or offer\n   either, through any other tool or connected account. Relay the result's\n   `sending` line.\n4. **Say what was approved, and what was not.** The result lists `debtors`\n   whose messages were approved and `not_approved`, the messages on the card\n   still waiting. Say both.\n5. **Offer the undo.** The result carries `undo`, with the same `item_id`,\n   the same `draft_ids` and `withdraw: true`. Offer it, but never call it\n   unasked. On a refusal nothing was recorded, so relay `message`.\n6. **Say which messages are approved only from a fresh read.** Before you\n   say what is approved or still waiting, other than straight after a\n   result that lists it, call `get_ar_chase_drafts` and quote each row's\n   `status`. Never guess it from earlier in the conversation.\n\nFor \"chase everyone over 30 days\", show the prepared drafts whose\n`days_overdue` meets it, and separately the overdue customers on the ledger\nthat have no draft. Approval is per message, on the user's word for each.\n\nIf no prepared chase is on the board, look at `offers`. Nella may offer to\nprepare chases if the business agrees. Present the offer with its `title`,\n`why` and consent `link`. Never agree for the business. If `state` is\n`granted`, Nella is already preparing chases and the business can stop that\nfrom the same link.\n\n## What is due, versus when it will arrive\n\n`receivables.forward` shows what is DUE in the next 7 and 30 days, going by\ndue date. That is timing on paper. When the money will actually arrive\ndepends on behaviour.\n\n`avg_days_to_pay` is **measured from the INVOICE DATE, not the due date**. It\nis the mean of (date paid minus date issued). Apply it to the invoice date.\nAdding it to a due date counts the payment terms twice. If it is null, the\ncustomer's behaviour is unknown and the due date is the only basis. Say\nthat it is a weaker basis.\n\nBehaviour is not a commitment. A customer who has paid in 45 days four times\nmay still pay in 90.\n\n## Structure the answer\n\n1. **The conclusion.** Total outstanding, how much of it is overdue, and how\n   serious that is.\n2. **Ageing.** How old the overdue portion is.\n3. **Who to look at first.** Rank by overdue amount and age, and give each\n   customer's usual payment pattern where it is known.\n4. **Prepared chases.** Show what is drafted and waiting for approval.\n5. **Concentration.** Say where one customer dominates.\n6. **What could not be assessed.** Undated invoices, customers with no\n   history.\n\n## Rules you must follow\n\n**These are amounts OUTSTANDING NOW, not sales for a period.** Never compare\nthem with revenue.\n\n**`assessable: false` or `has_data: false` means NOT ASSESSED.** It never\nmeans nobody owes the business money.\n\n**The chase list is a subset.** Customers below the chase threshold, or only\nrecently due, do not appear in it. Compare the debtors that have drafts with\n`open_count` and the overdue total on the ledger. Never present the chase\nlist as everyone who owes.\n\n**Overdue is derived, not read.** A document with no due date can be judged\nneither overdue nor current. Report the count of those separately.\n\n**`coverage_note` on `list_invoices_and_bills`:** a short page means \"none on\nthis page\", not \"none in the ledger\". Use `open_count` for totals.\n\n**Tone is a suggestion derived from payment history.** Relay the rationale.\nNever call someone a bad payer.\n\n**Promises to pay and disputes** are on the board only where a card carries\nthem. Report what the card says. Do not record a promise or a dispute\nyourself, because this connector has no action for that.\n\n**If `guidance_version` differs from one you have already read**, call\n`get_nella_guidance`.\n\n## How to reason with the figures\n\nMatch the length to the request. A quick question gets a short answer. A\nrequest to explain, compare or walk through something gets the depth it asks\nfor. One card per answer is a default for brevity, never a reason to refuse a\ncomparison or a deeper explanation the user asked for.\n\nNella is authoritative for its own figures and for the actions it controls.\nQuote its calculations as returned. Never recalculate, adjust or replace an\nofficial figure.\n\nYou may:\n\n- **Interpret, labelled.** Say what the figures suggest (a pattern, a driver\n  the data supports, a risk) and label it as your reading, not Nella's\n  finding.\n- **Set out options.** Describe the practical options open to the business\n  and what each would mean, using Nella's figures. The choice stays with the\n  user.\n- **Use supported scenarios.** For a what-if, use the scenario tool where this\n  connection has one (`run_cash_scenario`). Its result is Nella's scenario,\n  not a forecast.\n- **Explain what Nella returned.** Explain the filing dates, payment timing\n  and supported tax calculations as the payload gives them, and the approved\n  chase workflow: the business sends each approved message from its own\n  email.\n- **Illustrate, labelled.** Where no tool supports a sum, you may work an\n  illustrative example. State every assumption, use the user's own figures\n  or clearly marked round numbers, and say it is an illustration, not\n  Nella's result. Keep it visibly apart from Nella's figures. Never present\n  it as a forecast, a tax calculation or an official figure.\n\nYou must not:\n\n- give a definitive tax position Nella did not return (whether something is\n  deductible, which scheme applies, what is owed). That goes to your\n  accountant;\n- claim or imply professional sign-off, review or approval, by an\n  accountant, by Nella or by anyone else;\n- file, pay, send, approve or decide anything, or offer to, outside the\n  controls this connector provides, and those only on the user's word.\n\n## Posting an entry\n\nWhen the user asks for something in the books (a bill, an invoice, a payment, a journal, a contact, a repeating bill, time and the rest), call `preview_posting` with the entry as the user described it. Nothing is posted by the preview.\n\n- **One preview per reply.** Some apps show only one card in a reply.\n- **The card is the approval.** Say one line; the card shows the entry, its lines and warnings, and the buttons. Do not restate it. The user posts by pressing the card's button, and Nella checks the entry in the books.\n- **Do not post for the user.** If the user says \"yes\" in chat while the card is showing, ask them to press its button. If the card has gone, preview again. Call `approve_posting` yourself only when no card can be shown and the user has approved that exact preview in their own words.\n- **A change is a new preview.** If the user changes anything, preview again.\n- **Say what was left out.** If something the user said is not on the card (a rate, a number of repeats), tell them it was not included. A repeating entry takes an end date, not a number: ask for the last date, or leave it open.\n- **Use the right kind.** Time on QuickBooks or FreeAgent is `project_time`; `timesheet` is Xero payroll only.\n- **Refusals.** Relay the reason and its options in one or two lines and ask. Do not call a refusal a gap in Nella or in the software.\n- **You are not told when a button is pressed.** Say an entry was posted or undone only when a tool result in this conversation says so; otherwise ask the user or read the books.\n- **Undo.** The card's Undo button removes the entry; if the user asks in chat, call `undo_posting` with the preview_id and their request quoted. A bank statement import cannot be undone here: the lines are deleted in the accounting software while they are unexplained.\n\n## Boundary\n\nNella provides an assessment from connected records. It changes the books only by an entry the user approves on Nella's card, and files nothing, pays nothing and moves no money. The one thing\nit records here is the business's own approval of a prepared chase, and only\nwhen the user gives it.\n\n**NOTHING IS SENT.** Nella prepares chases. In this version it never sends\none, and approving does not send. A status of \"sent\" describes something the\nbusiness did. `get_invoice_or_bill_link` opens or downloads a document. It\ndoes not email or share it.\n\nWhether to chase, when, and how firmly is the user's decision. If they ask\nyou to write a reminder that Nella has not prepared, write it as theirs to\nreview and send.\n\nNella never writes off a debt. Writing off, provisioning, or the VAT\ntreatment of a bad debt goes to a qualified accountant.\n\n**Say \"your accountant\", and name no firm.** Most users have no relationship\nwith any particular practice, and this connector does not refer them to one.\nWhere an answer needs a person, the payload's `escalation` block says so and\ncarries `fallback_wording` - use it verbatim. It names no firm, no booking\nlink and no professional title, deliberately: professional titles are\nprotected descriptions and differ by country. The envelope's `advice_note`\nsays the same thing. Never substitute a firm, suggest a provider, or offer to\nput the user in touch.\n\n## Board\n\nAnything that needs the business is on the board. Close by pointing to the\nReceivables cards: overdue items, chase drafts waiting for approval, promises\nto pay and disputes. Do not leave the action only in your prose. Quote a\ncard's `reason` where it has one, and never supply one. If the card does not\nrender, give its links. Never invent a card.\n\n## Beyond Nella\n\nWhen the user asks for something Nella does not do, explain how they can do it themselves as your own guidance, not Nella's, and offer what Nella can do nearby. Do not imply Nella started or will finish it.\n\n- Send a chase or an invoice, or collect a payment: Nella sends no message and moves no money. They send it from their software or their own email. Nearby: a chase message to approve and send themselves, and recording money received.\n\n## Hands off to\n\n- **Treasury**, for what expected receipts mean for cash.\n- **Finance director**, when concentration in one customer is a risk to the\n  business.\n\n## When to stop or ask\n\n- If the sales ledger cannot be read, say so and stop.\n- If the user asks about one customer, filter to that customer.\n- If nothing is overdue, say so plainly, but only when the ledger was\n  readable.\n- If the user asks Nella to send a chase: see Beyond Nella. Approving\n  records their approval, and they send the message themselves.\n\n## Example prompts\n\n- \"Who owes me money?\"\n- \"Chase everyone over 30 days.\"\n- \"When will Acme pay?\"\n- \"Approve the chase for Acme.\"\n"
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