Pith Number

pith:NCFH5PHA

pith:2026:NCFH5PHAQ6MH7UVXHHWM5QJQXX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stop Shipping AI Agents on Faith: Capability Is Not Production Readiness

Fouad Bousetouane

arxiv:2607.27677 v1 · 2026-07-30 · cs.MA · cs.AI

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NCFH5PHAQ6MH7UVXHHWM5QJQXX}

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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	2026-07-31T01:29:42.501720Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	unsigned_v0
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

688a7ebce087987fd2b739eccec130bdc63f646898780af4edb005499520bb44

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.27677 · arxiv_version: 2607.27677v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.27677 · pith_short_12: NCFH5PHAQ6MH · pith_short_16: NCFH5PHAQ6MH7UVX · pith_short_8: NCFH5PHA

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/NCFH5PHAQ6MH7UVXHHWM5QJQXX \
  | 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: 688a7ebce087987fd2b739eccec130bdc63f646898780af4edb005499520bb44

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a96750763f83b282768670510d9cb25e54a2044f24c1f80ab928ea349bbf3789",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-30T04:44:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90fcd821991be8d38c6bc033a25d94475832c1731e6e03dba8411732fc0a0db8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.27677",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}