Pith Number

pith:D2RMZHN6

pith:2026:D2RMZHN6O6WTMVVIIRU4YDYPCI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On Automated and Explainable Provenance of AI-Generated Code

Alejandro Velasco, Denys Poshyvanyk, Nathan Wintersgill, Oscar Chaparro, Trevor Stalnaker

arxiv:2608.02329 v1 · 2026-08-03 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D2RMZHN6O6WTMVVIIRU4YDYPCI}

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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	2026-08-04T02:11:49.680210Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1ea2cc9dbe77ad3656a84469cc0f0f122f2b2ed3e8b05e17599ff17b1f827e1a

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02329 · arxiv_version: 2608.02329v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02329 · pith_short_12: D2RMZHN6O6WT · pith_short_16: D2RMZHN6O6WTMVVI · pith_short_8: D2RMZHN6

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/D2RMZHN6O6WTMVVIIRU4YDYPCI \
  | 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: 1ea2cc9dbe77ad3656a84469cc0f0f122f2b2ed3e8b05e17599ff17b1f827e1a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "345bb0e858a20bd7fa9060e6d008e28c66b84416cbfb08af5179c3cc25b0417b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T14:50:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1c7e18489dfc1cc9855333e62183eb912894333831a0091c7cb7b8485e44aa9b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02329",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}