Pith Number

pith:LQN7OZYF

pith:2026:LQN7OZYFQ3J6EEXQVKMBKWA3UB

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Diagnosing Tool-Selection Reasoning in LLM Agents with Canary Tools

Atul Anand, Sourav Chattaraj

arxiv:2608.04719 v1 · 2026-08-05 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LQN7OZYFQ3J6EEXQVKMBKWA3UB}

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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	2026-08-06T01:46:35.963079Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5c1bf7670586d3e212f0aa9815581ba04d87d3895b9b467ac07320de2f29e80e

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.04719 · arxiv_version: 2608.04719v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.04719 · pith_short_12: LQN7OZYFQ3J6 · pith_short_16: LQN7OZYFQ3J6EEXQ · pith_short_8: LQN7OZYF

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LQN7OZYFQ3J6EEXQVKMBKWA3UB \
  | 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: 5c1bf7670586d3e212f0aa9815581ba04d87d3895b9b467ac07320de2f29e80e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9947783645084c657fd23bf53f393c287915e656c5361aeaad796672d76a10cd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T11:38:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "30856efd3df7f0a82977db49a22c352202e8bb1d6d26fbee25cfc3ef7a531b67"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.04719",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}