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pith:T6NCHRKN

pith:2026:T6NCHRKNBUF45WPFKY3F5GWWNY

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Proof-of-Guardrail in AI Agents and What (Not) to Trust from It

Aaron Chan, Junyi Du, Michael Duan, Qin Lin, Xiang Ren, Xisen Jin, Zhenglun Chen

arxiv:2603.05786 v2 · 2026-03-06 · cs.CR · cs.AI · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-06-30T00:15:09.400387Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9f9a23c54d0d0bced9e556365e9ad66e35398084cc54e0178dc6018c307e3c07

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.05786 · arxiv_version: 2603.05786v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.05786 · pith_short_12: T6NCHRKNBUF4 · pith_short_16: T6NCHRKNBUF45WPF · pith_short_8: T6NCHRKN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/T6NCHRKNBUF45WPFKY3F5GWWNY \
  | 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: 9f9a23c54d0d0bced9e556365e9ad66e35398084cc54e0178dc6018c307e3c07

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-06T00:34:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ed69b839771b70a3a0b9648e058031c1908053a99de1a06466dbb5f088cd9da"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}