{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-09T21:13:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-04-axiom-stacks-project-lean-formalization/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-04-axiom-stacks-project-lean-formalization/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-11-04-axiom-stacks-project-lean-formalization","date":"2026-11-04","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Axiom: the Stacks Project formalized in Lean","deck":null,"takeaway":"On 4 Nov 2026 Axiom Math released AxiomMath/Stacks, a Lean 4 formalization of 'every tag of the Stacks Project with formalizable content' (about 63,000 modules), with an agent-written StacksFrontier tier and a human-reviewed StacksCore tier. Axiom's X post had 6.9M views.","category":"science","category_label":"Science & math","importance":4,"confidence":"medium","status":{"key":"pending","labels":["Awaiting review"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"AxiomMath/Stacks repository and README","url":"https://github.com/AxiomMath/Stacks","type":"code","group":"primary","domain":"github.com"},{"n":2,"title":"Stacks in Lean website","url":"https://stacks.axiommath.ai/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"stacks.axiommath.ai"},{"n":3,"title":"Axiom on X: release post (4 Nov)","url":"https://x.com/axiommathai/status/2118028834515874112","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"x.com"},{"n":4,"title":"TechBuzz: Axiom Math verifies Stacks Project to combat AI proof slop","url":"https://techbuzz.ai/articles/axiom-math-verifies-stacks-project-to-combat-ai-proof-slop","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"techbuzz.ai"}],"official":3,"filed":"2026-11-07","updated":"2026-11-09","orgs":["Axiom Math"],"title":"Axiom releases a 16M-line Lean formalization of the Stacks Project, mostly written by AI agents and split into human-reviewed and unreviewed tiers","summary":"Axiom Math published github.com/AxiomMath/Stacks (created 4 Nov 2026), \"A Lean 4 (v4.34.0-rc2) formalization of the Stacks Project\", the open reference work on algebraic geometry. The README says \"We have formalized every tag of the Stacks Project with formalizable content\", with declarations also tagged by EGA and SGA items. Code sits in two tiers: StacksCore, human-reviewed, and StacksFrontier, \"formalizations written by AI agents\", where \"review is most needed\". Axiom's X post called it \"a 16M-line formalization of the entire Stacks Project\"; two days later it released a proof of the Weil conjectures built on it.","key_facts":["Claim (README, verbatim): 'We have formalized every tag of the Stacks Project with formalizable content'; proofs use only propext, Classical.choice and Quot.sound","Size: about 63,000 modules (README); '16M-line' (Axiom on X, 4 Nov)","Review status: StacksCore is 'human-reviewed … brought to Mathlib standards'; StacksFrontier is written by AI agents and needs review before moving to StacksCore. The share of each tier is not stated in the README","Reach: Axiom's X post 'Most think vibecoding at scale is slop. Here's a counterexample. Today we release a 16M-line formalization of the entire Stacks Project…' had 6.94M views by 7 Nov (fxtwitter)","Follow-up: AxiomMath/Weil (6 Nov), a Lean proof of the Weil conjectures built on the library (own entry)","Contributions are taken through claimed tasks with blueprints reviewed by maintainers (README)"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["math","algebraic-geometry","stacks-project","lean","formalization","autoformalization","agents","axiom"],"science":{"field":"mathematics","subfield":"algebraic geometry, formal verification","problem":"Formalizing the Stacks Project (de Jong et al.) in Lean","result":"Claimed Lean 4 formalization of every formalizable Stacks tag, in human-reviewed and agent-written tiers","open_since":"","ai_system":["Axiom agents"],"human_role":"AI agents wrote StacksFrontier; humans reviewed StacksCore","verification":{"key":"lean","label":"Lean-verified","text":"Lean kernel-checked per the repository; agent tier not human-reviewed"},"status":"pending","shock":""},"body_md":"## What happened\n\nAxiom Math released a Lean formalization of the Stacks Project. The 5 Nov listing had mentioned the repository only in passing; its reach (6.9M views on X) became clear on 7 Nov, so it gets its own entry. The library separates human-reviewed code from code written by AI agents and asks the community to review and promote the latter.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nThe Stacks Project is the standard reference for modern algebraic geometry, and Mathlib covered only a small part of it. A machine-checked version, even one only partly reviewed, makes large formal proofs in the area possible: Axiom's Weil conjectures proof two days later builds on it.","disputed":[{"label":"Verification","text":"Lean kernel-checked per the repository; agent tier not human-reviewed","sources":[]}],"related":[{"id":"2026-11-06-axiom-weil-conjectures-lean-formalization","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-06-axiom-weil-conjectures-lean-formalization/","date":"2026-11-06","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Axiom: the Weil conjectures proved in Lean","deck":null,"takeaway":"On 6 Nov 2026 Axiom Math published AxiomMath/Weil, a kernel-checked Lean 4 proof of rationality, the functional equation, the Riemann hypothesis (Deligne) and the Betti-number statement, following Freitag–Kiehl. About 980 modules were written by AI agents; the code has not been reviewed by humans.","category":"science","category_label":"Science & math","importance":4,"confidence":"medium","status":{"key":"pending","labels":["Awaiting review"]},"sources":3,"official":3,"filed":"2026-11-07","updated":"2026-11-08","orgs":["Axiom Math"]},{"id":"2026-11-05-ai-assisted-results-november-5-listing","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-05-ai-assisted-results-november-5-listing/","date":"2026-11-05","date_precision":"day","short_title":"AI-assisted results, 5 Nov: arXiv of 5 Nov and Hexagon of 4 Nov","deck":null,"takeaway":"The 5 Nov sweep listed 424 arXiv papers mentioning AI (about 240 new) and 44 uncited Hexagon works. Own entries: the refutation of the 3-uniform hyperclique hypothesis (ChatGPT Sol 6.1), Najman's elliptic-curve torsion in degrees 6–9 (GPT-6.1 Sol) and Serre modularity over real quadratic fields (ChatGPT Astra/Sol).","category":"science","category_label":"Science & math","importance":2,"confidence":"medium","status":{"key":"pending","labels":["Awaiting review"]},"sources":67,"official":67,"filed":"2026-11-05","updated":"2026-11-05","orgs":["OpenAI","Anthropic","various researchers"]},{"id":"2026-10-27-axiom-cfsg-classification-finite-simple-groups-lean","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-27-axiom-cfsg-classification-finite-simple-groups-lean/","date":"2026-10-27","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Axiom: Classification of Finite Simple Groups formalized in Lean","deck":null,"takeaway":"On 27 Oct 2026 Axiom Math published a Lean 4 formalization of the Classification of Finite Simple Groups (CFSG). The proof was originally spread over hundreds of papers and an estimated 10,000–15,000 pages. Axiom says it is sorry-free, follows the first-generation proof, and was built by AI agents working with about 30 mathematicians and engineers. Press reports put the build time at 24 days. Along the way the team found a false step in one published route to the Unbalanced Group Theorem and wrote a replacement argument. The project is self-reviewed: outside experts have not yet re-run the build or checked that the Lean statement matches CFSG.","category":"science","category_label":"Science & math","importance":5,"confidence":"medium","status":{"key":"pending","labels":["Awaiting review"]},"sources":14,"official":8,"filed":"2026-10-28","updated":"2026-11-03","orgs":["Axiom Math"]}],"people":[],"posts":[{"id":"x-axiommathai-2118028834515874112","title":"“Most think vibecoding at scale is slop. Here’s a counterexample. 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