Pith Number

pith:ME254GIN

pith:2026:ME254GINC6ZW7CDBSZAQ3CINS6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Progressive Crystallization: Turning Agent Exploration into Deterministic, Lower-Cost Workflows in Production

Arun Malik

arxiv:2607.07052 v1 · 2026-07-08 · cs.SE · cs.AI · cs.DC · cs.ET · cs.MA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ME254GINC6ZW7CDBSZAQ3CINS6}

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-09T01:20:13.323826Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6135de190d17b36f886196410d890d97bc4a19269e12b22c430a8a9f9192e2d7

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.07052 · arxiv_version: 2607.07052v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.07052 · pith_short_12: ME254GINC6ZW · pith_short_16: ME254GINC6ZW7CDB · pith_short_8: ME254GIN

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/ME254GINC6ZW7CDBSZAQ3CINS6 \
  | 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: 6135de190d17b36f886196410d890d97bc4a19269e12b22c430a8a9f9192e2d7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ffdc99927e01bb3518a6e4e71c3fa1947548099bbe2a12ab7cf449111e035c97",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.ET",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-08T06:27:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c9756ad38af9c92d54a2a34bde2eabdb37ff012745ed2cdb0bb9caadd807d314"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.07052",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}