Pith Number

pith:WTKHF2HN

pith:2026:WTKHF2HNX64DYPPXHA3Z26N5HV

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Co-Evolution in Agentic Systems: Toward Self-Directed Evolution Beyond Human Design

Cheng Qian, Jiayu Liu, Junhao Shen, Linsi Wu, Qing Zong, Rui Wang, Weiqi Wang, Xiusi Chen, Yangqiu Song, Yuxuan Liu, Zecong Tang, Zhaowei Wang

arxiv:2608.10299 v1 · 2026-08-10 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WTKHF2HNX64DYPPXHA3Z26N5HV}

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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.

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First computed	2026-08-12T00:23:49.630278Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4d472e8edbfb83c3df738379d79bd3d7723a3f4f27d5574587f9073d2f4ea14

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10299 · arxiv_version: 2608.10299v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10299 · pith_short_12: WTKHF2HNX64D · pith_short_16: WTKHF2HNX64DYPPX · pith_short_8: WTKHF2HN

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WTKHF2HNX64DYPPXHA3Z26N5HV \
  | 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: b4d472e8edbfb83c3df738379d79bd3d7723a3f4f27d5574587f9073d2f4ea14

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "976c324618ffdf7e1bfb59093cc01b62f7203ac1a322bcecac7d3e0bee556a9e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T23:10:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "57ebfa2f0b879130761dcee5814de2224feb29a452439fd4dc8bd479f9520c41"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10299",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}