Pith Number

pith:F2ULYW6K

pith:2026:F2ULYW6KI4KEQT5EUDE6MEUVR4

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Agents Catching Agents: Shortcut Cascades and Benchmark Gaming in Clinical Multi-Agent Systems

Aaditya Panchal, Agastya Munnangi, Aldo Marzullo, Anqi Peter Li, Armaan Grewal, Arshnoor Bhutani, Emmanuel Paul Kwesiga, Felipe Ocampo Osorio, Josephine Nanyonjo, Leo Anthony Celi, Maximin Lange, Milit S. Patel, Mohammad Shahin, Nikhil Jaiswal, Quang Bui, Sebasti\'an Andr\'es Cajas Ord\'o\~nez

arxiv:2608.03744 v1 · 2026-08-04 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F2ULYW6KI4KEQT5EUDE6MEUVR4}

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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	2026-08-05T01:37:00.760975Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ea8bc5bca4714484fa4a0c9e612958f36abfb9cb26d183ddab0dd705c7c88d6

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.03744 · arxiv_version: 2608.03744v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.03744 · pith_short_12: F2ULYW6KI4KE · pith_short_16: F2ULYW6KI4KEQT5E · pith_short_8: F2ULYW6K

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/F2ULYW6KI4KEQT5EUDE6MEUVR4 \
  | 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: 2ea8bc5bca4714484fa4a0c9e612958f36abfb9cb26d183ddab0dd705c7c88d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc94b604212a8e04d4dff856e74aafd13d0db1f8de809ee5b28796e11ec89471",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-04T14:37:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ff8556f69964cca176701af4e7ea946f787bc01949e8222f49d9c1e69b286a79"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.03744",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}