Pith Number

pith:4DXSRHQF

pith:2026:4DXSRHQFZOLSHJUPPSM235RFAW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Governed Persistent Memory: Source-Bound State Semantics and Fail-Closed Release for Long-Horizon Agents

Guodong Xu

arxiv:2608.12476 v1 · 2026-08-12 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4DXSRHQFZOLSHJUPPSM235RFAW}

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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	2026-08-14T00:43:40.541738Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e0ef289e05cb9723a68f7c99adf62505b7380e754ded5c016ddc165941313200

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.12476 · arxiv_version: 2608.12476v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.12476 · pith_short_12: 4DXSRHQFZOLS · pith_short_16: 4DXSRHQFZOLSHJUP · pith_short_8: 4DXSRHQF

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/4DXSRHQFZOLSHJUPPSM235RFAW \
  | 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: e0ef289e05cb9723a68f7c99adf62505b7380e754ded5c016ddc165941313200

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bf1775f72caa28d44c7c2fd1b6b37c24283ea385749163328882ef2e3dcc4151",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-12T18:00:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "33132e6d778205bb1d187092f371f31c6b2f86943b94c2014ac435525cf614fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.12476",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}