Pith Number

pith:NSXGAYOA

pith:2026:NSXGAYOABZKBI5FUDCUF6TTM3O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Story Shapes the Agent: Narrative Priors in LLM Behavior

James Lester, Shashank Srivastava, Yixuan Wang

arxiv:2607.18566 v1 · 2026-07-20 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NSXGAYOABZKBI5FUDCUF6TTM3O}

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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	2026-07-22T00:22:54.593865Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6cae6061c00e541474b418a85f4e6cdba5bc5c61cf6cd4c38d677affb3e5bee2

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.18566 · arxiv_version: 2607.18566v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.18566 · pith_short_12: NSXGAYOABZKB · pith_short_16: NSXGAYOABZKBI5FU · pith_short_8: NSXGAYOA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NSXGAYOABZKBI5FUDCUF6TTM3O \
  | 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: 6cae6061c00e541474b418a85f4e6cdba5bc5c61cf6cd4c38d677affb3e5bee2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "90e6857835c9b1e71e472d44fbc197a785c47bc746d84e368bd24cb7b8d998ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-20T23:03:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "458c921ce06312e5b2964b681a5f0401739b1bcf19b237ab8fe1d6c8c347cbc3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.18566",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}