Pith Number

pith:5FB3G3M2

pith:2026:5FB3G3M2HWX6KEGW3AEBTJ2FLX

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Defining AI-Native Systems: Autonomy as Revision Authority

Cheng Tan

arxiv:2607.21659 v1 · 2026-07-22 · cs.AI · cs.OS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5FB3G3M2HWX6KEGW3AEBTJ2FLX}

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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	2026-07-27T00:20:13.582434Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e943b36d9a3dafe510d6d80819a7455dc5d9b156642fb1eda1c776ef4d498b0f

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.21659 · arxiv_version: 2607.21659v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.21659 · pith_short_12: 5FB3G3M2HWX6 · pith_short_16: 5FB3G3M2HWX6KEGW · pith_short_8: 5FB3G3M2

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/5FB3G3M2HWX6KEGW3AEBTJ2FLX \
  | 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: e943b36d9a3dafe510d6d80819a7455dc5d9b156642fb1eda1c776ef4d498b0f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "59d8767cd20de973bc84036c4cedede5e7dc453842b04da6c5759154ee2633c5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.OS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-22T22:58:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8160e0e054f9bc9528c5c792d0b3fe558d27c954b9d3c1ca79a8052e8f191834"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.21659",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}