Pith Number

pith:V35BLM23

pith:2026:V35BLM23BYBNMG24NH6P66XXEP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Specifying AI-SDLC Processes: A Protocol Language for Human-Agent Boundaries

Ylli Prifti

arxiv:2606.20615 v1 · 2026-05-24 · cs.AI · cs.MA · cs.PL · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V35BLM23BYBNMG24NH6P66XXEP}

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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	2026-06-23T00:11:51.482656Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aefa15b35b0e02d61b5c69fcff7af723c5bff5ac2df89bc7c0d33d555f57d400

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.20615 · arxiv_version: 2606.20615v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.20615 · pith_short_12: V35BLM23BYBN · pith_short_16: V35BLM23BYBNMG24 · pith_short_8: V35BLM23

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/V35BLM23BYBNMG24NH6P66XXEP \
  | 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: aefa15b35b0e02d61b5c69fcff7af723c5bff5ac2df89bc7c0d33d555f57d400

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "abced830e612554827bfbb0d996a6b6786d2fe64e67f5175a0834d610a44f4b4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA",
      "cs.PL",
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-24T02:52:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1b3cf5b0af8b3e55b8f38dc5d786ba44bfbc1862d7f2760f7a63df00006db3bd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.20615",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}