Pith Number

pith:XKF7YJNP

pith:2026:XKF7YJNPL2BIPN3CSE7S7KSWP5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Govern the Repository, Not the Agent: Measuring Ecosystem-Level Risk in AI-Native Software

Daniel Russo

arxiv:2606.28235 v1 · 2026-06-26 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XKF7YJNPL2BIPN3CSE7S7KSWP5}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-06-29T01:15:10.059052Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba8bfc25af5e8287b762913f2faa567f6f58807e98fee6af9421dcf8a918d540

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.28235 · arxiv_version: 2606.28235v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.28235 · pith_short_12: XKF7YJNPL2BI · pith_short_16: XKF7YJNPL2BIPN3C · pith_short_8: XKF7YJNP

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/XKF7YJNPL2BIPN3CSE7S7KSWP5 \
  | 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: ba8bfc25af5e8287b762913f2faa567f6f58807e98fee6af9421dcf8a918d540

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "430f4a6e8fc7349888cf56c151523d1ec988ba0f7df58c8f873ba563f8f79cbf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-26T16:22:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d629d94ecb07b93fc91f34251e4d59cbaecc44d810bb6d405f7c3ee55743367f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.28235",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}