Pith Number

pith:IT6O5PNV

pith:2026:IT6O5PNVKBSGZXA3EPT32ZPLXD

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Registry Descriptions Go Stale Unevenly: An 89-Day Measurement of Model Context Protocol Drift, and Why Drift-Ranked Re-Auditing Under-Covers It

Gautam Bharti

arxiv:2608.00997 v1 · 2026-08-02 · cs.SE · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IT6O5PNVKBSGZXA3EPT32ZPLXD}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-04T01:56:11.293086Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

44fceebdb550646cdc1b23e7bd65ebb8edcf153b17d73543ff41cc81fa1b45db

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00997 · arxiv_version: 2608.00997v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00997 · pith_short_12: IT6O5PNVKBSG · pith_short_16: IT6O5PNVKBSGZXA3 · pith_short_8: IT6O5PNV

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/IT6O5PNVKBSGZXA3EPT32ZPLXD \
  | 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: 44fceebdb550646cdc1b23e7bd65ebb8edcf153b17d73543ff41cc81fa1b45db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "66f3ebd41e7a7be74267945677f17ca75100f01423dd87b10cc2ce4fb579e96c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-02T04:54:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "95787129433290f01526add6ed3b53af34b22f2233e79aa864ec400434cfb989"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00997",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}