Pith Number

pith:FRZA3CZQ

pith:2026:FRZA3CZQ2B3GH2VH4UQVV7FDKQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding

Kushal Chakrabarti

arxiv:2608.11095 v1 · 2026-08-11 · cs.AI · cs.LG · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FRZA3CZQ2B3GH2VH4UQVV7FDKQ}

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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	2026-08-12T01:24:35.882455Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2c720d8b30d07663eaa7e5215afca3542f4dde18297dd14661123ce1dce1cce2

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.11095 · arxiv_version: 2608.11095v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.11095 · pith_short_12: FRZA3CZQ2B3G · pith_short_16: FRZA3CZQ2B3GH2VH · pith_short_8: FRZA3CZQ

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/FRZA3CZQ2B3GH2VH4UQVV7FDKQ \
  | 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: 2c720d8b30d07663eaa7e5215afca3542f4dde18297dd14661123ce1dce1cce2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c29f6dda27578d873bb88f31079683d6f8e15771f976c5492b58518cca3f38bc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-11T16:00:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "15b2e845582a60062bc75d6bcc8593c5b530e680ece189016740df509fb4e816"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.11095",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}