Pith Number

pith:F53EGRGN

pith:2026:F53EGRGNN7R3EHSLSNGF2CDYET

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When Agents Commit Too Soon: Diagnosing Premature Commitment in LLM Agents

Aman Mehta

arxiv:2606.22936 v1 · 2026-06-22 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F53EGRGNN7R3EHSLSNGF2CDYET}

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-06-23T03:14:04.726900Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2f764344cd6fe3b21e4b934c5d087824f58e7a1b4759b4e2a41159db8d77fcb7

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.22936 · arxiv_version: 2606.22936v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.22936 · pith_short_12: F53EGRGNN7R3 · pith_short_16: F53EGRGNN7R3EHSL · pith_short_8: F53EGRGN

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/F53EGRGNN7R3EHSLSNGF2CDYET \
  | 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: 2f764344cd6fe3b21e4b934c5d087824f58e7a1b4759b4e2a41159db8d77fcb7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "af6ed676ad79d2702a169cdfa3b3a649024080caac885ad574f2f25a6bba44a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-22T07:13:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "41779691cf6643104f5a461a413b44925bf981f3672a6416db440cd43256e8e5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.22936",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}