Pith Number

pith:5B7RV4TJ

pith:2026:5B7RV4TJQHTNC2EGAJENX3C4XO

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Reason Less, Verify More: Deterministic Gates Recover a Silent Policy-Violation Failure Mode in Tool-Using LLM Agents

Abhishek Basu, Sumanth Reddy Challaram, Vikas Reddy

arxiv:2607.07405 v1 · 2026-07-08 · cs.AI · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5B7RV4TJQHTNC2EGAJENX3C4XO}

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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	2026-07-09T01:20:24.121335Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e87f1af26981e6d168860248dbec5cbbbb94fa87b18e0dfca7d2d028f18e9109

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.07405 · arxiv_version: 2607.07405v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.07405 · pith_short_12: 5B7RV4TJQHTN · pith_short_16: 5B7RV4TJQHTNC2EG · pith_short_8: 5B7RV4TJ

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/5B7RV4TJQHTNC2EGAJENX3C4XO \
  | 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: e87f1af26981e6d168860248dbec5cbbbb94fa87b18e0dfca7d2d028f18e9109

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6e27de801ff9cb83b4f0c60a6b972aadc1b92eea6f8b45b4428b2f8356dbf29a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-08T13:38:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fd9fc2c42a6b4e4945c7d7ae87d5bd8542a4db0bd83a3c316f7fd4e32d29a80b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.07405",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}