Pith Number

pith:DPVWJVHM

pith:2025:DPVWJVHMNZRWCEDS2J7HQIQSTB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Frictional Agent Alignment Framework: Slow Down and Don't Break Things

Abhijnan Nath, Andrei Bachinin, Carine Graff, Nikhil Krishnaswamy

arxiv:2505.19428 v1 · 2025-05-26 · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DPVWJVHMNZRWCEDS2J7HQIQSTB}

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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	2026-07-05T11:09:30.081802Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1beb64d4ec6e63611072d27e782212984d46706862a55674c8e20fd19bd2f273

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.19428 · arxiv_version: 2505.19428v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.19428 · pith_short_12: DPVWJVHMNZRW · pith_short_16: DPVWJVHMNZRWCEDS · pith_short_8: DPVWJVHM

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/DPVWJVHMNZRWCEDS2J7HQIQSTB \
  | 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: 1beb64d4ec6e63611072d27e782212984d46706862a55674c8e20fd19bd2f273

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a52b4f74984f38066e6783931652bb5ce2ad0b9e1bf0a2d1d8f40aa48141a6a8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-26T02:39:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c890d117a63b1278675656d61d803f8d71d1b648676ea4bfefdbd744a6a61ea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.19428",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}