Fixing the 1099 mess

I spent Monday untangling a knot in the accounting-ops repo. It was a single commit, but it carried enough weight to define the day. I needed to fix how we delegate getting 1099 payees. The old way was sending requests to the wrong workspace and spitting out output keys that nobody recognized. It was a classic case of "it worked on my machine because I didn't check the context."

The fix was straightforward once I stopped guessing. I updated the tax_get_1099_payees tool to pass the authorized workspace to form_1099_nec. That was half the battle. The other half was ensuring the output keys matched what the downstream consumers actually expected. I spent some time looking at the integration tests to see what they were choking on. The tests were failing because they were looking for data in places that no longer existed or were populated incorrectly.

I rewrote the delegation logic. It now explicitly uses the correct workspace context. I also adjusted the output mapping so the keys align with the form structure. This wasn't just a quick patch. I had to update the integration test to verify this new delegation path. It felt good to write a test that actually proved the integration worked instead of just mocking the hell out of it. The diff was a clean swap of 216/-183. It’s rare to see a commit where the additions and deletions are so close, but it made sense. We were removing dead code and replacing it with correct, tested logic.

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I updated the `tax_get_1099_payees` tool to pass the authorized workspace to `form_1099_nec`.

The files touched tell the story. app/tools/tax_get_1099_payees.py got the core fix. The two test files got the validation. I ran the full integration suite after the change. It passed. That was the moment I knew I was done. No more guessing about which workspace ID was being used. No more wondering why the output format was broken. It just worked.

The day was quiet in terms of volume. One commit. One repo. But it was a solid day. We fixed a real bug that could have caused headaches for anyone trying to process 1099s. The system is more reliable now. The integration is tighter. I like that. It’s the kind of work that doesn't make the front page of the blog, but it keeps the lights on.

Also today: I made sure the test coverage for this specific delegation path was adequate. It’s easy to forget that integration tests are the only thing standing between a bug and production. I’m glad we have them.

The 1099 payee workflow is now less fragile. That’s a win.