Pith Number

pith:G6VL3OWC

pith:2026:G6VL3OWCWRGP5ELZKZ7QBX54EX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Software Delegation Contracts: Measuring Reviewability in AI Coding-Agent Work

Vincent Schmalbach

arxiv:2606.17099 v1 · 2026-06-14 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G6VL3OWCWRGP5ELZKZ7QBX54EX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-06-19T16:10:03.178111Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

37aabdbac2b44cfe9179567f00dfbc25d59209fc7a8a387510ad506965440d49

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.17099 · arxiv_version: 2606.17099v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.17099 · pith_short_12: G6VL3OWCWRGP · pith_short_16: G6VL3OWCWRGP5ELZ · pith_short_8: G6VL3OWC

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/G6VL3OWCWRGP5ELZKZ7QBX54EX \
  | 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: 37aabdbac2b44cfe9179567f00dfbc25d59209fc7a8a387510ad506965440d49

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed02c7b4a62c42e0c457390d8943c30407a62df399f2090be7332788c763115b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-14T05:53:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5d13f9962fc438a0f553b53956204d2037b66eb9345ca2bc302a6e40e7d837c6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.17099",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}