Pith Number

pith:4RIIXM24

pith:2026:4RIIXM247Z4RKXV2BAMNBKTAFO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Gate Is Only as Honest as Its Contracts: ContractGuard for the Contract Layer of Risk-Aware Causal Gating

Laxmipriya Ganesh Iyer, Rahul Suresh Babu

arxiv:2606.18550 v1 · 2026-06-17 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4RIIXM247Z4RKXV2BAMNBKTAFO}

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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	2026-06-19T16:11:40.645125Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4508bb35cfe79155eba0818d0aa602b9f88923a3d3c1243eac5827347be0bb1

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.18550 · arxiv_version: 2606.18550v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.18550 · pith_short_12: 4RIIXM247Z4R · pith_short_16: 4RIIXM247Z4RKXV2 · pith_short_8: 4RIIXM24

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/4RIIXM247Z4RKXV2BAMNBKTAFO \
  | 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: e4508bb35cfe79155eba0818d0aa602b9f88923a3d3c1243eac5827347be0bb1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4a10435d6d5f023d9f758ff36922d292cc389af34a114c409b6b0744cb6e13fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-17T00:00:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fda6fd8bfc965a526cf6ca2a9e7c34339d7f1498f50ea6b1a8a891d427297e30"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.18550",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}