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Paper Integrity Record · LEDGER

When Skills Don't Help: A Negative Result on Procedural Knowledge for Tool-Grounded Agents in Offensive Cybersecurity

As of 2 June 2026, Pith completed 11 of 12 listed checks against arXiv:2605.20023. The completed checks produced 2 public findings within their stated scope. 1 check was skipped and produced no result.

This is a record of named checks, not a clean-status claim or a paper verdict.

pith.integrity.v1
2605.20023 v2
pith:2026:FQABGMQ26GCZWK3HXCJJLYTDVH

Coverage vector

completed 11 of 12 listed checks

Counted as completed checks in the claim sentence numerator.

skipped 1 of 12 listed checks

Skipped checks produced no result and say nothing about absence.

Listed checks

ai_meta_artifact

completed

v1.0.0, observed 2026-06-02 23:41:14.052176+00:00

Scope
Paper body text scanned for literal AI-assistant artifacts.
Completed surface
Checked 1 reference.

doi_title_agreement

completed

v1.0.0, observed 2026-05-29 01:03:43.622058+00:00

Scope
Cited titles compared with titles resolved from their DOI or arXiv identifier.
Completed surface
Completed within the stated scope.

doi_compliance

completed

v1.0.0, observed 2026-05-27 01:05:36.819930+00:00

Scope
DOI and arXiv identifiers listed in the bibliography checked against named registries.
Completed surface
Completed within the stated scope.

claim_evidence

completed

v1.0.0, observed 2026-05-26 23:44:17.379197+00:00

Scope
Recorded paper claims checked for the evidence artifacts they name.
Completed surface
Completed within the stated scope.

doi_title_agreement

completed

v1.0.0, observed 2026-05-25 09:02:42.269580+00:00

Scope
Cited titles compared with titles resolved from their DOI or arXiv identifier.
Completed surface
Checked 4 references.

claim_evidence

completed

v1.0.0, observed 2026-05-25 08:03:45.313609+00:00

Scope
Recorded paper claims checked for the evidence artifacts they name.
Completed surface
Completed within the stated scope.

doi_compliance

completed

v1.0.0, observed 2026-05-25 06:11:18.716634+00:00

Scope
DOI and arXiv identifiers listed in the bibliography checked against named registries.
Completed surface
Checked 2 references.

external_links

completed

v1.0.0, observed 2026-05-20 23:34:59.520535+00:00

Scope
External URLs extracted from paper text checked at the stated time.
Completed surface
Checked 3 references. Recorded 1 finding from this run.

shingle_duplication

completed

v0.1.0, observed 2026-05-20 17:50:01.589024+00:00

Scope
Available paper body text compared for identical 40-token sequences under the detector's stated exclusions.
Completed surface
Checked 600 references.

citation_quote_validity

completed

v0.1.0, observed 2026-05-20 07:49:44.546519+00:00

Scope
Specific factual attributions checked against cited-paper text available in Pith.
Completed surface
Completed within the stated scope.

cited_work_retraction

completed

v1.0.0, observed 2026-05-20 04:53:40.406665+00:00

Scope
Cited references checked for source-reported retractions or expressions of concern.
Completed surface
Completed within the stated scope.

ai_meta_artifact

skipped

v1.0.0, observed 2026-05-20 02:33:27.891980+00:00

Scope
Paper body text scanned for literal AI-assistant artifacts.
Reason
Paper body text was unavailable.

Observations

Methods and limits

Each listed check names the surface it examined. A skipped, failed, partial, unavailable, not collected, not requested, or withheld check says nothing about what a completed check would have returned.

  • Only checks with status completed enter the claim sentence numerator.
  • Findings appear only from completed checks and only within the scope printed for that check.
  • Severity labels describe one observation row. They do not roll up into a paper judgment.