Pith Number

pith:FS5UTUET

pith:2026:FS5UTUET4YCXZHIVMSTEGTAHG2

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The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images

Bo Peng, Chaochao Lu, Lai Wei, Zhiheng Wang

arxiv:2608.06270 v1 · 2026-08-06 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FS5UTUET4YCXZHIVMSTEGTAHG2}

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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	2026-08-07T01:41:05.840831Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2cbb49d093e6057c9d1564a6434c0736bdcb105bf7a426cad0033a47d0852d37

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06270 · arxiv_version: 2608.06270v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06270 · pith_short_12: FS5UTUET4YCX · pith_short_16: FS5UTUET4YCXZHIV · pith_short_8: FS5UTUET

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FS5UTUET4YCXZHIVMSTEGTAHG2 \
  | 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: 2cbb49d093e6057c9d1564a6434c0736bdcb105bf7a426cad0033a47d0852d37

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "87536f61abbe87dfc431763648242fb3d77afd285f513cc21950331215485913",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T17:01:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "afc2fdcc240ca580ef5ad9841dab9d8772761bc6c3369ba4de4096b9dc1b132a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06270",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}