Pith Number

pith:AFQNWBK6

pith:2026:AFQNWBK66MDSHEP2ZILGVJUEPQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

KYA: A Framework-Agnostic Trust Layer for Autonomous Systems with Verifiable Provenance and Hierarchical Policy Composition

Kolawole Quadri

arxiv:2605.25376 v1 · 2026-05-25 · cs.CR · cs.AI · cs.CY · cs.MA · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AFQNWBK66MDSHEP2ZILGVJUEPQ}

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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	2026-05-26T02:04:31.542019Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0160db055ef3072391faca166aa6847c380b45243db8f5e41aef57c56d6c9a59

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.25376 · arxiv_version: 2605.25376v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.25376 · pith_short_12: AFQNWBK66MDS · pith_short_16: AFQNWBK66MDSHEP2 · pith_short_8: AFQNWBK6

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/AFQNWBK66MDSHEP2ZILGVJUEPQ \
  | 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: 0160db055ef3072391faca166aa6847c380b45243db8f5e41aef57c56d6c9a59

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "63ebd5d8034918b7d313c4b5a70413de1f6491f2a8a5bcba3198710220d77584",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.MA",
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-25T02:59:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a261da824513614874090085abd146a7c62408e76ecde6d5bfde7588e45bbd1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.25376",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}