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Provenance History

The timeline below establishes authorship and priority of the ISL standard. Each commit SHA links to its canonical location on GitHub. The OpenTimestamps proof anchors the genesis commit to the Bitcoin blockchain.

OpenTimestamps proofs

Digest files (.txt) and receipts (.ots) produced by isl-claim/devops/scripts/01-opentimestamps.sh. Verify with ots verify -f <file> <file>.ots.

Evidence screenshot

Screenshot of GitHub commit de8b19ce showing ISL initial commit on 2026-01-31

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Commit record

SHA Date Message Repository Link
de8b19ce Initial commit - ISL language implementation isl-lang/spec view →
83203c33 ISL Evidence Bench Harness isl-lang/spec view →
62d62246 @isl-lang/parser — npm package published isl-lang/parser view →

Authorship statement

ISL — Intent Specification Language — was designed and initially implemented by Gentian Mevlani (GuardiaVault) beginning 2026-01-31. The specification, grammar, and parser codebase are published under the ISL-lang GitHub organization at github.com/isl-lang . The standard is offered to the community under the MIT / Apache-2.0 dual license.