Pith Number

pith:GAFH3ZEY

pith:2026:GAFH3ZEYKMKQITQPQVHYDGGHXH

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A measurement substrate for agentic Kubernetes operations: Methodology and a case study in retrieval-compounding falsification

Deon van der Vyver, Gideon Rubin, Joshua Odmark

arxiv:2605.23058 v1 · 2026-05-21 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GAFH3ZEYKMKQITQPQVHYDGGHXH}

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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	2026-05-25T02:01:36.573627Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

300a7de4985315044e0f854f8198c7b9e1f31085c8aed97fca4b391a50245888

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.23058 · arxiv_version: 2605.23058v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.23058 · pith_short_12: GAFH3ZEYKMKQ · pith_short_16: GAFH3ZEYKMKQITQP · pith_short_8: GAFH3ZEY

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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/GAFH3ZEYKMKQITQPQVHYDGGHXH \
  | 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: 300a7de4985315044e0f854f8198c7b9e1f31085c8aed97fca4b391a50245888

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "246b9650172cf19533a83ae80e2881f0994aace940d6f4bb7164df72f5961860",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-21T21:47:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "37a9feadef13dbfd94c51264e8d453ae8655901abc712acf8e5ce2962f618877"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.23058",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}