Pith Number

pith:K6RPKDU6

pith:2026:K6RPKDU6FXKMHSQGMXNLFG77J6

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The Prompt Is Not the Query: How Request State Evolves Across Multi-Turn AI Conversations

Benjamin Tannenbaum

arxiv:2607.22392 v1 · 2026-07-24 · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K6RPKDU6FXKMHSQGMXNLFG77J6}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Beyond the Final Prompt: Measuring the Effect of Within-Conversation Context on AI Answers

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-27T01:21:18.413433Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

57a2f50e9e2dd4c3ca0665dab29bff4fb0cb9bdf3937117e57cb8a9a5e9205e8

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.22392 · arxiv_version: 2607.22392v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.22392 · pith_short_12: K6RPKDU6FXKM · pith_short_16: K6RPKDU6FXKMHSQG · pith_short_8: K6RPKDU6

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/K6RPKDU6FXKMHSQGMXNLFG77J6 \
  | 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: 57a2f50e9e2dd4c3ca0665dab29bff4fb0cb9bdf3937117e57cb8a9a5e9205e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8cc30db8163fc65daedb09ebc216ce3a5c6cceda535a0537f6eed0bd47f827dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-24T15:16:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ed36ce8eafea7ea24874f24f91d5c92748f85432b2ddd03f5a7008fdc61bf80a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.22392",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}