Pith Number

pith:ARC3FN62

pith:2026:ARC3FN62W4K66HNXD2WGX2ZALZ

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Auditable AI-Assisted Research Writing: An Engineering Discipline with Pre-Registered Process Observation

Chengqun Yu, Yang Zhou

arxiv:2608.10858 v1 · 2026-08-11 · cs.DL · cs.CY · cs.HC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ARC3FN62W4K66HNXD2WGX2ZALZ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-12T01:23:34.953421Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0445b2b7dab715ef1db71eac6beb205e492012c1755950baac665e392d9e79ae

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10858 · arxiv_version: 2608.10858v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10858 · pith_short_12: ARC3FN62W4K6 · pith_short_16: ARC3FN62W4K66HNX · pith_short_8: ARC3FN62

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/ARC3FN62W4K66HNXD2WGX2ZALZ \
  | 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: 0445b2b7dab715ef1db71eac6beb205e492012c1755950baac665e392d9e79ae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3057c0fd171707fde210e0433ace43c65d06887d7bc4e25ef3f4802af4a2efc6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-11T12:30:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c4da4fa5541e87539962fe956c22dfab21fefb4aa3b5eb0fc1a6042e17c829d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10858",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}