Pith Number

pith:6RSK5U7R

pith:2026:6RSK5U7RWDT6OXK6742EB373YB

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Reasoning effort, not tool access, buys first-try reliability in agentic code generation: an observational study

Achint Mehta

arxiv:2607.02436 v1 · 2026-07-02 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6RSK5U7RWDT6OXK6742EB373YB}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-03T01:17:59.194336Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f464aed3f1b0e7e75d5eff3440effbc04884aff6a13dab599655c23e8a82c26a

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.02436 · arxiv_version: 2607.02436v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.02436 · pith_short_12: 6RSK5U7RWDT6 · pith_short_16: 6RSK5U7RWDT6OXK6 · pith_short_8: 6RSK5U7R

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/6RSK5U7RWDT6OXK6742EB373YB \
  | 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: f464aed3f1b0e7e75d5eff3440effbc04884aff6a13dab599655c23e8a82c26a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1708ecee6afad14c77bc02639508248d1e1dcc49532e666dc8e39a6c7b71e521",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-02T17:08:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b4e83c17eb796c08183ded765d28651be8df585c064f767b3f986a49c2bde400"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.02436",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}