Pith Number

pith:6DIPLW5U

pith:2026:6DIPLW5U6R7SQ5GA2FLDNWLXLM

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Independent Patch Verification for Coding Agents with a Bidirectional Reconstruct-and-Verify Framework

Chenglin Li, Shin Hwei Tan, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, Yisen Xu, Zehao Wang

arxiv:2608.08950 v1 · 2026-08-09 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6DIPLW5U6R7SQ5GA2FLDNWLXLM}

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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	2026-08-11T01:25:49.057967Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f0d0f5dbb4f47f2874c0d15636d9775b1a438d336a36cd0d1d5ca07a3bd3a4a2

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.08950 · arxiv_version: 2608.08950v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.08950 · pith_short_12: 6DIPLW5U6R7S · pith_short_16: 6DIPLW5U6R7SQ5GA · pith_short_8: 6DIPLW5U

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/6DIPLW5U6R7SQ5GA2FLDNWLXLM \
  | 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: f0d0f5dbb4f47f2874c0d15636d9775b1a438d336a36cd0d1d5ca07a3bd3a4a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5290000d43f6cdeb1d460ea735c43359482c09b4b0a8dffe478595d180abc77c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-09T22:59:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ac132c1bc33bc67c5bd953153ffaf6f7a700cb24c4eb87b701f44c1f6218e325"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.08950",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}