Pith Number

pith:W6GHYR5X

pith:2026:W6GHYR5XNVZ2SSHZZWGEB4XC2D

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Missing Layer: Specification Infrastructure for AI Oversight

Satyam Kumar, Saurabh Jha

arxiv:2607.24866 v1 · 2026-07-26 · cs.CR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W6GHYR5XNVZ2SSHZZWGEB4XC2D}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-29T00:24:48.796354Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b78c7c47b76d73a948f9cd8c40f2e2d0e0c7020151fc1b271c6da7e46bebf430

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.24866 · arxiv_version: 2607.24866v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.24866 · pith_short_12: W6GHYR5XNVZ2 · pith_short_16: W6GHYR5XNVZ2SSHZ · pith_short_8: W6GHYR5X

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/W6GHYR5XNVZ2SSHZZWGEB4XC2D \
  | 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: b78c7c47b76d73a948f9cd8c40f2e2d0e0c7020151fc1b271c6da7e46bebf430

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9de5e6e61cfffb582fb2acbb8f1d24829a41418406f2f776b8904fe3efedd054",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-26T18:12:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "981cfc2e55ba65a020a2b71427d7d9e19e4cf036a7e1ddf7eb1e3565ca054718"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.24866",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}