Pith Number

pith:HZ4QLHDS

pith:2026:HZ4QLHDSACF7WE2MNXZFLT65HK

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Compaction as Epistemic Failure: How Agentic LLM Tools Fabricate Confirmed Results from Killed Processes

Hiroki Tamba

arxiv:2607.13071 v1 · 2026-07-11 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HZ4QLHDSACF7WE2MNXZFLT65HK}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-07-16T00:21:54.470845Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3e79059c72008bfb134c6df255cfdd3aa5dfda382d0f6dd9238b9806591d7993

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.13071 · arxiv_version: 2607.13071v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.13071 · pith_short_12: HZ4QLHDSACF7 · pith_short_16: HZ4QLHDSACF7WE2M · pith_short_8: HZ4QLHDS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HZ4QLHDSACF7WE2MNXZFLT65HK \
  | 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: 3e79059c72008bfb134c6df255cfdd3aa5dfda382d0f6dd9238b9806591d7993

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "36c9afe8fc59e6c8ab90f740d6b35abd3b6ff1920d6be0dd7cca5e98aca4ab4d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-11T07:45:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "173a6191766c02d84893be0b9855ebdee48ee650feb46bcec29beff5e7dc3363"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.13071",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}