Pith Number

pith:NOBXI263

pith:2026:NOBXI263DC4ZTAUYX6NXRMNFSJ

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HALT: Verification-Aware Stopping for Retrieval-Augmented Search Agents

Daeyoung Roh, Donghee Han

arxiv:2608.02009 v1 · 2026-08-03 · cs.AI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NOBXI263DC4ZTAUYX6NXRMNFSJ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-08-04T02:10:29.191955Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6b83746bdb18b9998298bf9b78b1a59260689c7f10be6373ab1938dcad64781d

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02009 · arxiv_version: 2608.02009v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02009 · pith_short_12: NOBXI263DC4Z · pith_short_16: NOBXI263DC4ZTAUY · pith_short_8: NOBXI263

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/NOBXI263DC4ZTAUYX6NXRMNFSJ \
  | 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: 6b83746bdb18b9998298bf9b78b1a59260689c7f10be6373ab1938dcad64781d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3fc4bb3818f45e4ce6f7817249fd061adac06665c2931a43c7beca75c891d8e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T10:09:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba7a9af6b26a70f9b5e8716355eda250f06372f50b7b58d1cc243597f592f677"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02009",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}