Pith Number

pith:4ZHUKHKM

pith:2026:4ZHUKHKMOESTHSWAGJQH2NIP4O

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The Illusion of Agentic Complexity in README.md Generation: Evaluating Single-Agent vs. Multi-Agent RAG Systems

Abu Saleh, Davide Di Ruscio, Juri Di Rocco, Muhammad Umar Zeshan, Phuong T. Nguyen, Tesfay Welegebreal Tesfay

arxiv:2606.30524 v1 · 2026-06-29 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4ZHUKHKMOESTHSWAGJQH2NIP4O}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-06-30T02:18:18.607533Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e64f451d4c712533cac032607d350fe3a021f45a587caf4855a28ae7eee981c2

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.30524 · arxiv_version: 2606.30524v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.30524 · pith_short_12: 4ZHUKHKMOEST · pith_short_16: 4ZHUKHKMOESTHSWA · pith_short_8: 4ZHUKHKM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4ZHUKHKMOESTHSWAGJQH2NIP4O \
  | 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: e64f451d4c712533cac032607d350fe3a021f45a587caf4855a28ae7eee981c2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c851e665d1cda86df632e466fdf3716b27f4747c845bbf110bb87c913001b90",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-29T16:29:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c4bbad722bfc6f07fe1d46917f5501750b4ddf0fad0562bf89fc48bffbda1676"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.30524",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}