Pith Number

pith:W3LDNKW2

pith:2025:W3LDNKW2PI3WTXSJZUPVASCMDP

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PROV-AGENT: Unified Provenance for Tracking AI Agent Interactions in Agentic Workflows

Amal Gueroudji, Daniel Rosendo, Prasanna Balaprakash, Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Renan Souza, Robert Ross, Stephen DeWitt, Tirthankar Ghosal

arxiv:2508.02866 v3 · 2025-08-04 · cs.DC · cs.DB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W3LDNKW2PI3WTXSJZUPVASCMDP}

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:56:22.118778Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6d636aada7a3769de49cd1f50484c1bf5c687908440efb5b9d7927c57b0643f

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.02866 · arxiv_version: 2508.02866v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.02866 · pith_short_12: W3LDNKW2PI3W · pith_short_16: W3LDNKW2PI3WTXSJ · pith_short_8: W3LDNKW2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/W3LDNKW2PI3WTXSJZUPVASCMDP \
  | 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: b6d636aada7a3769de49cd1f50484c1bf5c687908440efb5b9d7927c57b0643f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "29463260bad7abfa55bcff5433d6071c8eccb6ef3ed784f050812ab99e94cc00",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-04T19:54:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "58c00ae9047351283e10f5ecd876d288e6235bb8c64e2237738e0e1906cf98ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.02866",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}