Pith Number

pith:6WNOMAHD

pith:2026:6WNOMAHDC6YNKHADSRWPB6ZKVV

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FirstResearch: Auditable Question Formation for LLM Scientific Discovery Agents

Yufeng Wang

arxiv:2607.05682 v1 · 2026-07-06 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6WNOMAHDC6YNKHADSRWPB6ZKVV}

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4 Citations open

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-08T01:18:41.483630Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f59ae600e317b0d51c03946cf0fb2aad5b189458b160aaadaef36ed7e0f6de26

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.05682 · arxiv_version: 2607.05682v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.05682 · pith_short_12: 6WNOMAHDC6YN · pith_short_16: 6WNOMAHDC6YNKHAD · pith_short_8: 6WNOMAHD

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6WNOMAHDC6YNKHADSRWPB6ZKVV \
  | 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: f59ae600e317b0d51c03946cf0fb2aad5b189458b160aaadaef36ed7e0f6de26

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0050c6e73c880d7cbc9e3e043634613e78cd4beda1798f74cee2ff333c2b131e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-06T22:52:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5342aa2a1f0e0b746b9c66880ef603b829f7f92d3dd3a6ebce3626ff8f06c65c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.05682",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}