Pith Number

pith:JIGXVSB3

pith:2026:JIGXVSB37ANQTGSJYSYJFZQ5WZ

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Cheap Code, Costly Judgment: A Case Study on Governable Agentic Software Engineering

Berk \c{C}akar, James C. Davis, Kirsten A. Davis, Paschal C. Amusuo, Tanmay Singla

arxiv:2607.01087 v1 · 2026-07-01 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JIGXVSB37ANQTGSJYSYJFZQ5WZ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-02T01:18:28.353340Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4a0d7ac83bf81b099a49c4b092e61db65b88db944dbc61fdbb76ae9bc7136edc

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.01087 · arxiv_version: 2607.01087v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.01087 · pith_short_12: JIGXVSB37ANQ · pith_short_16: JIGXVSB37ANQTGSJ · pith_short_8: JIGXVSB3

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JIGXVSB37ANQTGSJYSYJFZQ5WZ \
  | 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: 4a0d7ac83bf81b099a49c4b092e61db65b88db944dbc61fdbb76ae9bc7136edc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2c2b687224785e26750d245317c443127a5d669a8464245e9611dbb3a5aab866",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-01T15:44:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "82d93445ed40d6e7dbc82b62f4d29ca2c46b1f12da86b59a4950bf11fef3f4cd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.01087",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}