Pith Number

pith:WKZLFYQY

pith:2026:WKZLFYQYTAAFLUZDSXPTMUUJKS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Agentic Garden of Forking Paths

James Zou, Jiacheng Miao, Jonathan K Pritchard

arxiv:2607.01507 v1 · 2026-07-01 · cs.AI · stat.ME

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WKZLFYQYTAAFLUZDSXPTMUUJKS}

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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	2026-07-03T00:17:02.676482Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2b2b2e218980055d32395df365289548318bbed64b288e68342980ba29a0746

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.01507 · arxiv_version: 2607.01507v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.01507 · pith_short_12: WKZLFYQYTAAF · pith_short_16: WKZLFYQYTAAFLUZD · pith_short_8: WKZLFYQY

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/WKZLFYQYTAAFLUZDSXPTMUUJKS \
  | 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: b2b2b2e218980055d32395df365289548318bbed64b288e68342980ba29a0746

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "252f344730b5a020c028a85ccc3faaa00367b9f7500e72a994e081dbf2f1f920",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-01T22:15:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3f24424185fd6340e449acf63a129e9072e8fb7313c2c0ad9e56abeacd3f5294"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.01507",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}