Pith Number

pith:NGICM3II

pith:2026:NGICM3IIXE4VEJP2TDJUCPM6NV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Deliberative Curation: A Protocol for Multi-Agent Knowledge Bases

Steven Johnson

arxiv:2606.00007 v1 · 2026-03-27 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NGICM3IIXE4VEJP2TDJUCPM6NV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-06-02T00:03:12.041139Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6990266d08b9395225fa98d3413d9e6d60028a13272dacc160e44cd7000d2a5f

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.00007 · arxiv_version: 2606.00007v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.00007 · pith_short_12: NGICM3IIXE4V · pith_short_16: NGICM3IIXE4VEJP2 · pith_short_8: NGICM3II

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/NGICM3IIXE4VEJP2TDJUCPM6NV \
  | 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: 6990266d08b9395225fa98d3413d9e6d60028a13272dacc160e44cd7000d2a5f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "006223f0f6d21660b5d0e86fe8eb83ed15a3dc4313ec9c1bdcd54bdfbc491616",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-27T12:23:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7545ba229ffd0ad3306c99a3c0461f8652f812d929d37b0cb88b46d93ad7407e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.00007",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}