Pith Number

pith:HHKK475E

pith:2026:HHKK475EH5GAL3MPM23TZ3ENVH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Who is scientific code for? Maintaining human-readable landmarks in agent-written code

Elle O'Brien

arxiv:2607.25975 v1 · 2026-07-28 · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HHKK475EH5GAL3MPM23TZ3ENVH}

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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	2026-07-29T01:26:17.303806Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

39d4ae7fa43f4c05ed8f66b73cec8da9d08604cc7ccc314d1d2f33d40764ca54

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.25975 · arxiv_version: 2607.25975v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.25975 · pith_short_12: HHKK475EH5GA · pith_short_16: HHKK475EH5GAL3MP · pith_short_8: HHKK475E

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/HHKK475EH5GAL3MPM23TZ3ENVH \
  | 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: 39d4ae7fa43f4c05ed8f66b73cec8da9d08604cc7ccc314d1d2f33d40764ca54

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ece16430b0725d78130629df6bb3855c240953c380f035135e59e853bae6d607",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-28T16:54:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2f11e2d86dba49fbc2feb469af305cb1fa19a220eb9743eebe201784feed4bcb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.25975",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}