Pith Number

pith:MMFZWGR2

pith:2026:MMFZWGR2S2ONK3DPPET635FPHS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Are You Still the Agent I Authorized? Earned Authority under a Fixed Ceiling for Evolving Agents

Xiaomei Zhang, Zhaoxi Zhang

arxiv:2607.23586 v1 · 2026-07-26 · cs.AI · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MMFZWGR2S2ONK3DPPET635FPHS}

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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	2026-07-28T01:23:00.624607Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

630b9b1a3a969cd56c6f7927edf4af3ca804a0a9373a04754c7ab57d5ff431db

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.23586 · arxiv_version: 2607.23586v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.23586 · pith_short_12: MMFZWGR2S2ON · pith_short_16: MMFZWGR2S2ONK3DP · pith_short_8: MMFZWGR2

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/MMFZWGR2S2ONK3DPPET635FPHS \
  | 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: 630b9b1a3a969cd56c6f7927edf4af3ca804a0a9373a04754c7ab57d5ff431db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7558781f55c2f4695e54fc5407fc7d66ce4c09e41ee36960efce40de063871b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-26T10:29:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e8e027f0813e02848100ea1e93c00ae28332056e22954ef894dc0f32d970f7e0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.23586",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}