Pith Number

pith:GTX37APV

pith:2026:GTX37APVYO6T3TUYQBXZNLAEPK

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Plans Don't Persist: Why Context Management Is Load Bearing for LLM Agents

Aman Mehta, Anupam Datta

arxiv:2606.22953 v1 · 2026-06-22 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GTX37APVYO6T3TUYQBXZNLAEPK}

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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	2026-06-23T03:14:05.144654Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

34efbf81f5c3bd3dce98806f96ac047a8e3229e061afd52c6de713b24d41c129

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.22953 · arxiv_version: 2606.22953v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.22953 · pith_short_12: GTX37APVYO6T · pith_short_16: GTX37APVYO6T3TUY · pith_short_8: GTX37APV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GTX37APVYO6T3TUYQBXZNLAEPK \
  | 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: 34efbf81f5c3bd3dce98806f96ac047a8e3229e061afd52c6de713b24d41c129

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0d2c75be5eb63c267e4a208ea39f22ecda7b84183d3e0aa7c9984cb4bdc3b451",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-22T07:30:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8d8d718773714b49ebf50237ad390826c6dfe18e864afe6e19dd6197f15e769a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.22953",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}