Pith Number

pith:2HFQYXE7

pith:2026:2HFQYXE7GXY5IURRPN6PVKHQIY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

N-Version Programming with Coding Agents

Benoit Baudry, Javier Ron, Martin Monperrus

arxiv:2606.20158 v1 · 2026-06-18 · cs.SE

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2HFQYXE7GXY5IURRPN6PVKHQIY}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-06-19T16:13:04.347771Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d1cb0c5c9f35f1d452317b7cfaa8f0462d31fca457313615a3b4bd149b4a631c

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.20158 · arxiv_version: 2606.20158v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.20158 · pith_short_12: 2HFQYXE7GXY5 · pith_short_16: 2HFQYXE7GXY5IURR · pith_short_8: 2HFQYXE7

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/2HFQYXE7GXY5IURRPN6PVKHQIY \
  | 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: d1cb0c5c9f35f1d452317b7cfaa8f0462d31fca457313615a3b4bd149b4a631c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "979b133713dbe51d568f6a0f5184f70995348c6f0cad935bf859000eb9deeb07",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-18T12:23:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fda05e7ca818916beb5af23a81aaea41222c0427be247f9ff38b2ce6a5c386f7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.20158",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}