Pith Number

pith:W4ZJVY6K

pith:2026:W4ZJVY6KGL5QFAYYKTBDE4L5VI

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Agentic Publication Protocol: An Attempt to Modernize Scientific Publication

Sirui Lu, Xiao-Liang Qi

arxiv:2606.27386 v1 · 2026-06-15 · cs.DL · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W4ZJVY6KGL5QFAYYKTBDE4L5VI}

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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	2026-06-29T00:14:04.483295Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b7329ae3ca32fb02831854c232717daa17eca314b999677146fd757ca38cd359

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.27386 · arxiv_version: 2606.27386v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.27386 · pith_short_12: W4ZJVY6KGL5Q · pith_short_16: W4ZJVY6KGL5QFAYY · pith_short_8: W4ZJVY6K

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/W4ZJVY6KGL5QFAYYKTBDE4L5VI \
  | 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: b7329ae3ca32fb02831854c232717daa17eca314b999677146fd757ca38cd359

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "01f18b001854dd5c587e30fa9ac954224ab083bb4bca9cb3c5baecaba9ff0d98",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-15T08:52:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b144b4000e3b91d3b4d5559d9b198dd0cd8339619368a3f61187add0908d91b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.27386",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}