Pith Number

pith:2FWPLTB6

pith:2026:2FWPLTB6LB6XVDX776HVRDTSL4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Withholding the Completing Chunk: Deterministic Pair-Completion Guardrails for Streaming LLM Output

Christopher M. Frost

arxiv:2608.10279 v1 · 2026-08-10 · cs.CR · cs.AI · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2FWPLTB6LB6XVDX776HVRDTSL4}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-12T00:23:45.521709Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d16cf5cc3e587d7a8effff8f588e725f09f7657d714ac27b03f6537ebdf26494

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10279 · arxiv_version: 2608.10279v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10279 · pith_short_12: 2FWPLTB6LB6X · pith_short_16: 2FWPLTB6LB6XVDX7 · pith_short_8: 2FWPLTB6

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2FWPLTB6LB6XVDX776HVRDTSL4 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d16cf5cc3e587d7a8effff8f588e725f09f7657d714ac27b03f6537ebdf26494

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1e41c8e4ced485124b9413037c02ca0d6dcde850d1536749821acfb73c49858d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T22:20:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "69abf65d74b33b9348b8bef53063d4f31bedcdb750552568c1d52dc09a4cd8b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10279",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}