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pith:2025:N5BEKJMHTXP72R3UPIZIQNIABG

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Exploring Autonomous Agents: A Closer Look at Why They Fail When Completing Tasks

Ruofan Lu, Yichen Li, Yintong Huo

arxiv:2508.13143 v1 · 2025-08-18 · cs.AI · cs.SE

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:55:33.033880Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

6f424525879ddffd47747a3288350009ad43dac2a097a2d000f38fb06d9f6134

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arxiv: 2508.13143 · arxiv_version: 2508.13143v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.13143 · pith_short_12: N5BEKJMHTXP7 · pith_short_16: N5BEKJMHTXP72R3U · pith_short_8: N5BEKJMH

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N5BEKJMHTXP72R3UPIZIQNIABG \
  | 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: 6f424525879ddffd47747a3288350009ad43dac2a097a2d000f38fb06d9f6134

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