Proof of origin · current state

Provenance

We're preserving the history of creation, not claiming ownership of ideas.

What these digests do and don't show

• A digest proves only that bytes match; it cannot authenticate authorship or dates stated inside the files.
• The OpenTimestamps proof is pending: calendars accepted it on 2026-10-18 but no Bitcoin attestation exists yet. Once verified, it shows the digest list existed no later than the attested block time, not when the ideas originated or who authored them.
• FOUNDING-ARCHIVE.md is a curated record, not a verbatim ChatGPT transcript.
• None of this is a certificate of originality or of who came first, and no AI vendor has endorsed it.

Received package

Jolly_Roger_Claude_Launch_Package.zip · 105560 bytes · SHA-256 f7272299dc6a6a342460a805ddd9a8d0781b186291ee51d57fcfd94f560154eb

Original ZIP is kept outside Git; every entry under jolly-roger-charter/ was byte-compared to the preservation commit.

Files

Machine-readable: launch-manifest.json. These digests cover the files as received. Some, like the launch status files, have changed since, and you can see each change in the Git history.

Verify it yourself

git clone https://github.com/jollyrogercharter/charter.git && cd charter
git show e59cf86:MANIFESTO.md | shasum -a 256
# compare with the table above, or regenerate the whole manifest:
node scripts/hash-manifest.mjs e59cf86 && git diff --stat provenance/

ots verify provenance/launch-digests.sha256.ots   # checks provenance/launch-digests.sha256 against Bitcoin
shasum -a 256 -c provenance/launch-digests.sha256   # from the original package folder

For more on timestamp proofs, follow provenance/VERIFY.md. The full specification is in provenance/README.md.