Use the bank's own category as a last resort

Many card exports carry a Category column. ai-bookkeeper now reads it as a weak last hint, never an auto-post.

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Chase, Capital One, Mint and Maybe exports all include a Category column such as "Food & Drink" or "Travel". ai-bookkeeper used to ignore it unless a row had no description.

It is now the fifth and last layer, after your rules, payee memory, the learned classifier and built-in keywords. It applies only to money out, only for labels that name a single account, and only suggests (confidence 0.55): the line still goes to the review queue. "Shopping" and "Bills" stay unsuggested because they fit many accounts.

Not yet measured on a real export, so how many lines it rescues is an open question. The tests use made-up rows.

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