Pith Number

pith:NRPU7DSD

pith:2026:NRPU7DSDS5LDD2XNY6RATMYRSG

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A Behavioural and Representational Evaluation of Goal-Directedness in Language Model Agents

Angelos Nalmpantis, Calum McNamara, Evgenii Kortukov, Fade Chen, Gabriele Sarti, Mario Giulianelli, Moksh Nirvaan, Niall Dalton, Raghu Arghal

arxiv:2602.08964 v2 · 2026-02-09 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.CY

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\pithnumber{NRPU7DSDS5LDD2XNY6RATMYRSG}

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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	2026-06-01T02:03:34.694555Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c5f4f8e43975631eaedc7a209b31191a4a20d9fdea7dbc351de662a7ab81745

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.08964 · arxiv_version: 2602.08964v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.08964 · pith_short_12: NRPU7DSDS5LD · pith_short_16: NRPU7DSDS5LDD2XN · pith_short_8: NRPU7DSD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NRPU7DSDS5LDD2XNY6RATMYRSG \
  | 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: 6c5f4f8e43975631eaedc7a209b31191a4a20d9fdea7dbc351de662a7ab81745

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a10af04004cbaabdd004c3933055d72bd49c84bddb88a423c0ff831a63b9d49f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-09T18:00:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2dccb0ecdf73d37338bfce391c6ff9c3958d528aa95da399ec8188f7263301e6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.08964",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}