Pith Number

pith:DVV65SNS

pith:2026:DVV65SNSCWW25NTKQ76QZAPGYD

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Don't Blame the Large Language Model: How Scaffolding Evolution Shapes Coding Agent Quality

Ahmed E. Hassan, Bram Adams, Hao Li, Oussama Ben Sghaier

arxiv:2607.03691 v1 · 2026-07-04 · cs.SE · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{DVV65SNSCWW25NTKQ76QZAPGYD}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-07T02:18:01.811630Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1d6beec9b215adaeb66a87fd0c81e6c0c6e5c4dae4766be9b75e56e8ee71cb8a

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.03691 · arxiv_version: 2607.03691v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.03691 · pith_short_12: DVV65SNSCWW2 · pith_short_16: DVV65SNSCWW25NTK · pith_short_8: DVV65SNS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DVV65SNSCWW25NTKQ76QZAPGYD \
  | 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: 1d6beec9b215adaeb66a87fd0c81e6c0c6e5c4dae4766be9b75e56e8ee71cb8a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0c1628a036c722f8a56c69c93f3ceb90c4f935b14e383aefb5d86ab4d2e35f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-04T03:55:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9e7e043235c54f8a52c3f4ca6dfd1e70c53871c7f6d745eb47cbeeb109bf4881"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.03691",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}