Pith Number

pith:PJXADH7U

pith:2026:PJXADH7URQ22DBQABSIGDTZ7WJ

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Fluid Structure, Rigid Record: A Layered Organizational Design Framework for Agent-Native Organizations

Lucian Zhu

arxiv:2608.08516 v1 · 2026-08-09 · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PJXADH7URQ22DBQABSIGDTZ7WJ}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-11T01:22:51.196875Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7a6e019ff48c35a186000c9061cf3fb24d66f023d805cce1085823a82771c550

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.08516 · arxiv_version: 2608.08516v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.08516 · pith_short_12: PJXADH7URQ22 · pith_short_16: PJXADH7URQ22DBQA · pith_short_8: PJXADH7U

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/PJXADH7URQ22DBQABSIGDTZ7WJ \
  | 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: 7a6e019ff48c35a186000c9061cf3fb24d66f023d805cce1085823a82771c550

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1cbd755698a52075cc89a1c0583b7a23059df513842005a6be5e53ebc6a7c130",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-09T06:28:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c15c7dbd54b8786409c4c10d166800f5d9563cedf03850e27b49c427d7ecdf0a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.08516",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}