Pith Number

pith:VEA6UPTO

pith:2026:VEA6UPTORNHXUBMSWGXCAGEA2N

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Proof-or-Stop: Don't Trust the Agent, Trust the Evidence -- Loop Engineering for Verifiable Evidence-Gated Lifecycle Control

Freddie Shi, Ian H. White, Jeffery Hsia, Jek Huang, Jiayi Sun, Wei Huang

arxiv:2607.14890 v1 · 2026-07-16 · cs.AI · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VEA6UPTORNHXUBMSWGXCAGEA2N}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-07-17T01:21:57.187271Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a901ea3e6e8b4f7a0592b1ae201880d3454f1eeaed90974785f0c545ecf57098

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.14890 · arxiv_version: 2607.14890v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.14890 · pith_short_12: VEA6UPTORNHX · pith_short_16: VEA6UPTORNHXUBMS · pith_short_8: VEA6UPTO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VEA6UPTORNHXUBMSWGXCAGEA2N \
  | 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: a901ea3e6e8b4f7a0592b1ae201880d3454f1eeaed90974785f0c545ecf57098

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9daf43097780485e0c23ba3d5b942e292723da7e374f41940387f9738e114d88",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-16T12:06:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "27a779fd201af72d1f739037bc0b9c95799cb44286b988f957ca305b73844cf6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.14890",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}