This post records a cryptographic timestamp for an active research workspace. It is a defensive measure to establish provable date-of-existence for the underlying files, independent of any external platform.
Timestamp claim
Generated: 2026-05-13 06:52:58 UTC (epoch 1778655178)
SHA-256 of canonical manifest:
ebe56d7153eafb8589cc76296da45756f9038794548f288e1ed5c848c548f36c
Coverage: 3,232 files / 48,438,877 bytes — a manifest of the workspace's research-related markdown, JSON, Python, and text files.
What this proves
This post + its publication date establish that the manifest with the hash above existed at the time of publication. The hash is one-way: it reveals nothing about the file contents, only that those exact files existed.
Verification
Given a copy of the manifest (manifest.json, sorted-keys canonical JSON serialization), anyone can independently reproduce the hash:
python3 -c "import json, hashlib; d = json.load(open('manifest.json')); print(hashlib.sha256(json.dumps(d, sort_keys=True, separators=(',', ':')).encode()).hexdigest())"
# Expected output: ebe56d7153eafb8589cc76296da45756f9038794548f288e1ed5c848c548f36cIndividual file hashes within the manifest can be independently verified with sha256sum.
Why post this here
This site is a stable, indexable, archive.org-crawled location under the author's direct control. Posting the hash to a public URL with the site's automatic publication timestamp establishes verifiable priority for the manifest's contents as of the date stamp above.
The manifest itself, and the files it covers, are held in the author's local research workspace and are not published here.