Pith Number

pith:NGDTH7RX

pith:2026:NGDTH7RXDNKQ7DYS6VMLQWABYC

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Auditing Discovery Claims: A Two-Sided Criterion for Agentic Science, with the Negative Side Decidable

Chi Man Vong, Jianlin Chen, Wenhui Chen, Ziyao Lin

arxiv:2608.00981 v1 · 2026-08-02 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NGDTH7RXDNKQ7DYS6VMLQWABYC}

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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.

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First computed	2026-08-04T01:56:09.702661Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

698733fe371b550f8f12f558b85801c0adbd851bf56e85e9a54084bb96be7bf5

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00981 · arxiv_version: 2608.00981v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00981 · pith_short_12: NGDTH7RXDNKQ · pith_short_16: NGDTH7RXDNKQ7DYS · pith_short_8: NGDTH7RX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NGDTH7RXDNKQ7DYS6VMLQWABYC \
  | 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: 698733fe371b550f8f12f558b85801c0adbd851bf56e85e9a54084bb96be7bf5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "afa4a969c29cc5fd3741e28c0816ab7acee000667baaca02066063687a6ba1d9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-02T04:15:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1556708349817375e4ffdd8758368589f02560b2d8373c8ab90bc3d19c5f7755"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00981",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}