Pith Number

pith:LIXJWEBK

pith:2026:LIXJWEBKPLJ4BXCUIY3XF2FAIN

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Benign Alone, Harmful Together: Exploiting Experience Composition in Self-Evolving LLM Agents

Bingyu Yan, Chaozhuo Li, Litian Zhang, Xiaoming Zhang, Yirui Qi, Ziyi Zhou

arxiv:2608.01759 v1 · 2026-08-03 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LIXJWEBKPLJ4BXCUIY3XF2FAIN}

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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	2026-08-04T02:06:49.167329Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5a2e9b102a7ad3c0dc54463772e8a043634eec6781e618c4dc4e7ed739b88c18

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.01759 · arxiv_version: 2608.01759v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.01759 · pith_short_12: LIXJWEBKPLJ4 · pith_short_16: LIXJWEBKPLJ4BXCU · pith_short_8: LIXJWEBK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LIXJWEBKPLJ4BXCUIY3XF2FAIN \
  | 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: 5a2e9b102a7ad3c0dc54463772e8a043634eec6781e618c4dc4e7ed739b88c18

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ac65b1c0d215aa423213d15f5ff9f7c71221a369d2beaa40cef5dc2448cb9cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T06:28:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "35867e69722e8d53ff2114ae6c2aeb385cfbbab4daf110c92ae3e30a1206ea19"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.01759",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}