More: everything else on Pith

How the reviews are made and checked

Challenges: Objections people have filed against a review, each with its decision and any correction.
How a review is made: The passes a machine review goes through, in the order they run.
Receipts: Pith's counts, each with the query or the dated experiment behind it.
The 500-paper accuracy study: A study that is designed and has not been run. The page says what it will measure.
Verification tiers: The marks T0 to T4 printed on a review, and how much of the paper each says a program checked.

Seal: Prove that a file existed on a date without showing it to anyone.
Anchor: An open-source tool that checks what a Lean theorem statement says.
Browser extension: A panel that shows Pith's review on arXiv pages. Version 0.1.0 is installed by hand in Chrome's developer mode; it is not in the Chrome Web Store.
No gates: Why a paper sent to Pith is read on its merits, under rules that are public and the same for every author.
The case for no gates: Why journals and preprint servers built gates, with sources, and what Pith does in their place.
Be early: What an author gets for putting a paper on the record at Pith.
Preprint policy: How a paper is published on Pith: the screen, the states, the fees and the rubric.
Preprint audit: Counts of the papers submitted to Pith and what was decided on each.
Become a reviewer: Scientists are paid to write signed reviews. The page says how it works and takes applications.
How a paid review works: The rules for the buyer and for the reviewer of a human review, with every number the system enforces.

Integrity: The automatic checks Pith runs on a paper's references and files.
Findings: What those checks have found, as a feed.
Integrity protocol: The published format of a signed finding, version 1.
Self-audit: Five checks Pith runs against its own pages, with their history.
Evidence: What Pith keeps around one paper: what it claimed, what was checked and what was challenged.
The Pith Number: An identifier computed from a paper's content, which anyone can recompute.

Developers: Every Pith record as public JSON, with the schemas and the signing key.
Data dumps: A file each month of every current review. The list of files is public; a file is sent on request.
The connected record: What each arXiv paper does with the works it cites, sentence by sentence.
Signing key: The public key Pith signs its records with.
sitemap.xml: The index of every list of addresses, for crawlers.
llms.txt: A short guide to Pith for AI assistants.
robots.txt: What crawlers may and may not fetch.

Who runs Pith: The institute that runs Pith, the conflict of interest that comes with that, and each of its own papers with the standing Pith gave it.
How Pith is governed: Who answers for Pith, how a review is corrected, and what is not yet decided.
Colophon: Who runs Pith, how to verify what it publishes, and the signing key.
The extension's privacy policy: What the browser extension reads and sends.

A Pith Review of a manuscript is private to the author who asked for it. These are the ones whose authors chose to publish them.

The 6 public reviews, newest first

An old address still works: it forwards to the new one. Nothing was deleted.

/sitemap: Now /more. Replaced 14 Nov 2026. The list of Pith's pages for people is the page you are on. The lists for crawlers are unchanged at /sitemap.xml.
/api: Now /data. Merged 14 Nov 2026. The page on Pith's data for machines has the footer's word for its address, and names its sister pages: record JSON, the dumps and the connected record. Addresses under /api/ did not move.
/conjectures: Now /topics. Merged 14 Nov 2026. The list of famous open problems is part of the list of topics, which says for each problem how many reviewed papers name it. A problem's own page of reviewed papers did not move.
/frontier: Now /topics. Merged 14 Nov 2026. The list of problems with reductions is part of the list of topics, which says for each problem how many routes to it papers have asserted. A problem's own frontier page did not move.
/tools: Now /authors. Merged 14 Nov 2026. What an author can run on a paper is on the page for authors: the reference check, the Pith Review and the seal. The records to look things up in are listed on this page.
/ledger: Now /more. Replaced 14 Nov 2026. The records it led to (researchers, reference changes, evidence) are listed on this page.
/bounties: Now /submit. Replaced 14 Nov 2026. The bounty board was replaced by paid human reviews, which are asked for on the submit page.

These pages answer a visitor who is not signed in with a notice. Nothing was deleted.

Falsifier Watch /tools/falsifier-watch: Falsifier Watch has been taken out of public view. Nothing was deleted: a watch you already made is kept, and you can open it when you are signed in.
Living Bibliography /tools/living-bibliography: Living Bibliography has been taken out of public view. Nothing was deleted: a bibliography you already made is kept, and you can open it when you are signed in.
Novelty Check /tools/novelty-check: The Novelty Check is no longer offered as a tool of its own. Nothing was deleted: a check you already ran is kept, and you can open it when you are signed in.
Novelty Check, the sample /tools/novelty-check/sample: The Novelty Check is no longer offered as a tool of its own. Nothing was deleted: a check you already ran is kept, and you can open it when you are signed in.