Pith Number

pith:GIP7MXIQ

pith:2026:GIP7MXIQ5ZCGPRD4YUQCPYDUFY

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Making AI Visible, Not Vanished: How AI Policies Reshape Developer Experience on GitHub

Bianca Trinkenreich, Thomas Zimmermann, Yunqi Chen

arxiv:2608.03329 v1 · 2026-08-04 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GIP7MXIQ5ZCGPRD4YUQCPYDUFY}

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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	2026-08-05T00:46:54.970497Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

321ff65d10ee4467c47cc52027e0742e21b97c3d6e6ac58c7c4f11084aec84bf

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.03329 · arxiv_version: 2608.03329v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.03329 · pith_short_12: GIP7MXIQ5ZCG · pith_short_16: GIP7MXIQ5ZCGPRD4 · pith_short_8: GIP7MXIQ

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/GIP7MXIQ5ZCGPRD4YUQCPYDUFY \
  | 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: 321ff65d10ee4467c47cc52027e0742e21b97c3d6e6ac58c7c4f11084aec84bf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e6443702b1c663d275fcf94e51677bf26ddf36020e8fe17509c1a07cfebb6871",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-04T08:39:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73ac86d88d89594857a2a1930d03661357c5eca0e5ac372d686e814700752aad"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.03329",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}