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pith:IM27INHB

pith:2026:IM27INHBY4DDBPIXMJDMDAGIQ2

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The Devil Is in the Interface: Evaluating How Tool Architecture Shapes Coding Agent Behavior

Hamidreza Saghir, Kexin Pei, Kiran Lakkaraju, Marc-Alexandre C\^ot\'e, Qianhui Wu, Tong Wang, Xiangyu Zhang, Xiangzhe Xu

arxiv:2608.11386 v1 · 2026-08-11 · cs.SE

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\pithnumber{IM27INHBY4DDBPIXMJDMDAGIQ2}

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First computed	2026-08-13T00:21:44.193926Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4335f434e1c70630bd176246c180c886afca657ed7fb89bdd0fb4fb7b12def76

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.11386 · arxiv_version: 2608.11386v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.11386 · pith_short_12: IM27INHBY4DD · pith_short_16: IM27INHBY4DDBPIX · pith_short_8: IM27INHB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IM27INHBY4DDBPIXMJDMDAGIQ2 \
  | 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: 4335f434e1c70630bd176246c180c886afca657ed7fb89bdd0fb4fb7b12def76

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ee27ed0d7c17ab749f91f5fd4125402da0ff61424721e1cc517283c457bbd37",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-11T19:50:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "867d70d73678ea960d5db22faaf3f5ba0ed5a35e5d67c5caea0cacabe5b4f274"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.11386",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}