Pith Number

pith:IY3CONSY

pith:2026:IY3CONSYF7PZWYPBW3V5Z4QXDR

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Correct Is Not Governed: Provenance Integrity in Agentic Workflows

Jesus Salas

arxiv:2608.12761 v1 · 2026-08-13 · cs.AI · cs.CR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IY3CONSYF7PZWYPBW3V5Z4QXDR}

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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	2026-08-14T00:47:35.469575Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46362736582fdf9b61e1b6ebdcf2171c630de376beb3c37da1a04647a2606572

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.12761 · arxiv_version: 2608.12761v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.12761 · pith_short_12: IY3CONSYF7PZ · pith_short_16: IY3CONSYF7PZWYPB · pith_short_8: IY3CONSY

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/IY3CONSYF7PZWYPBW3V5Z4QXDR \
  | 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: 46362736582fdf9b61e1b6ebdcf2171c630de376beb3c37da1a04647a2606572

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "71786d4a801b2bbc111727b1b417ba1726f538351684dd44cff8cdf0a0668654",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-13T03:12:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c6212901025dfc1c1b308251fc185f9f0a42ed5c3f158d5d56a89f0b1b73e9c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.12761",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}