Cobalt Operations Team: Document set README
Document set README for Cobalt Operations Team. 29 files, 1 of them intentionally invalid, with the reconciliation identities and the exact defect in each broken file named in full.
# Cobalt Operations Team: payroll register, payslip, benefits and leave documents
One payroll run end to end: the shifts that produced the hours, the register that turns them into gross, deductions and net, the payslip lines and two rendered payslips, the benefit schedule that explains one of the deductions, the leave balances, the bank payment file in both a readable CSV and a fixed-width form with its column map and COBOL copybook, the journal that posts it, and the employer cost and year-to-date summaries.
All parties, amounts and identifiers are fictional. Fixed snapshot: 2026-09-08. Every record is derived from the shared operating model `people-operations`, so identifiers join across this set and across the business-kit fixtures that use the same model.
## Reconciliation identities this set asserts
- Shift base pay sums to 9072.00, the gross pay on the register.
- gross_pay less income_tax, pension and health benefit equals net_pay on every employee and in total, 6649.44.
- The payslip lines, with deductions as negative amounts, sum to the same 6649.44.
- The bank payment file totals 6649.44, and the fixed-width form carries 664944 cents as its declared control total.
- The payroll journal balances at 10542.17 on each side.
- Employer contributions of 1470.17 appear in the journal and the cost summary and in no deduction column anywhere.
- entitlement less taken less approved future leave equals remaining on every employee, 1168 hours across the team, with pending requests excluded.
## Files
| File | Format | Validity | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `payroll-register.csv` | csv | valid | Payroll register |
| `payroll-register.json` | json | valid | Payroll register JSON |
| `payroll-register.xlsx` | xlsx | valid | Payroll register workbook |
| `payroll-register-deductions-mismatch.csv` | csv | invalid | Payroll register whose deductions do not reconcile to net pay |
| `payslip-lines.csv` | csv | valid | Payslip lines for every employee |
| `pay-element-codes.csv` | csv | reference | Pay element code list |
| `payslip-EMP-03.pdf` | pdf | valid | Payslip PDF for EMP-03 |
| `payslip-EMP-08.pdf` | pdf | valid | Payslip PDF for EMP-08 |
| `benefit-plan-rates.csv` | csv | reference | Benefit plan rate card |
| `benefits-deduction-schedule.csv` | csv | valid | Benefit deduction schedule |
| `benefits-deduction-schedule.json` | json | valid | Benefit deduction schedule JSON |
| `leave-balances.csv` | csv | valid | Leave balances |
| `leave-requests.csv` | csv | valid | Leave request register |
| `leave-balances.xlsx` | xlsx | valid | Leave workbook |
| `timesheet-hours.csv` | csv | valid | Paid hours by shift |
| `timesheet-hours.xlsx` | xlsx | valid | Hours and payroll workbook |
| `employee-directory.csv` | csv | valid | Employee directory |
| `employee-directory.json` | json | valid | Employee directory JSON |
| `bank-payment-file.csv` | csv | valid | Bank payment file |
| `bank-payment-fixed-width.txt` | txt | valid | Fixed-width bank payment file |
| `bank-payment-layout.json` | json | reference | Fixed-width payment file column map |
| `bank-payment-copybook.txt` | txt | reference | COBOL copybook for the payment file |
| `payroll-journal.csv` | csv | valid | Payroll journal batch |
| `payroll-journal.json` | json | valid | Payroll journal batch JSON |
| `employer-cost-summary.csv` | csv | valid | Employer cost summary |
| `ytd-earnings.csv` | csv | valid | Year to date earnings |
| `payroll-summary.pdf` | pdf | valid | Payroll summary PDF |
| `payroll-reconciliation.json` | json | reference | Payroll reconciliation assertions |
## Deliberate defectsSpecifications
- Document Set
- payroll
- Industry
- people-operations
- Source Kit
- people-operations
- Synthetic
- true
- As Of
- 2026-09-08
- Documented Files
- 29
- Documented Defects
- 1
Testing contract
Reference control- Scenario
- Read the README before using the set, then check that every filename it lists exists in the same directory and that the defect list matches the files marked invalid.
- Expected result
- The file table lists 29 entries including this README, and the deliberate-defect section names 1 file(s). The reconciliation section states the arithmetic identities the valid files satisfy exactly.
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How to use this file
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How to use this file for testing
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Documented properties for this file: MD · 5,378 bytes. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such, expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
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Code examples
import markdown # pip install markdown
html = markdown.markdown(open("README.md").read())
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Related files
- xlsxCobalt Operations Team: Hours and payroll workbookHours and payroll workbook for Cobalt Operations Team. Two worksheets: Shifts (48 rows) and Register (9 rows). The Register sheet is derived entirely from the Shifts sheet plus the declared rates, so the workbook carries the input and the output of one payroll run and both total 9072.00 gross.
- xlsxCobalt Operations Team: Leave workbookLeave workbook for Cobalt Operations Team. Two worksheets: Balances (9 rows including TOTAL) and Requests (4 rows). The approved requests on the second sheet are the approved_future_hours on the first; the pending ones are not, which is visible by comparing the two sheets side by side.
- xlsxCobalt Operations Team: Payroll register workbookPayroll register workbook for Cobalt Operations Team. One worksheet with the 8 employee rows and the TOTAL row, the same values as payroll-register.csv. Amounts are stored as text with two decimals, so a net pay ending in a zero cent is not displayed short and cannot be silently re-rounded by a recalculation.
- pdfCobalt Operations Team: Payroll summary PDFPayroll summary PDF for Cobalt Operations Team. A one-page summary of the run. The employee table closes on 9,072.00 gross, (2,422.56) of deductions and 6,649.44 net; the deduction analysis splits the same 2,422.56 three ways; and the employer cost table adds 1,470.17 of employer contributions to reach 10,542.17.
- pdfCobalt Operations Team: Payslip PDF for EMP-03Payslip PDF for EMP-03 for Cobalt Operations Team. A one-page payslip for Team member 3. The period table runs 1,008.00 gross through three deductions to 734.16 net, the employer-cost table shows 30.24, 77.11 and 63.00 that are not deducted from pay, and the year-to-date table shows 5 periods at 3,670.80 net.
- pdfCobalt Operations Team: Payslip PDF for EMP-08Payslip PDF for EMP-08 for Cobalt Operations Team. A one-page payslip for Team member 8. The period table runs 1,428.00 gross through three deductions to 1,057.56 net, the employer-cost table shows 42.84, 109.24 and 63.00 that are not deducted from pay, and the year-to-date table shows 5 periods at 5,287.80 net.
