Pith Number

pith:NV5FI6HM

pith:2026:NV5FI6HMYKYBQK4Q5UP7VPDVAO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ask or Assume? Uncertainty-Aware Clarification-Seeking in Coding Agents

Nicholas Edwards, Sebastian Schuster

arxiv:2603.26233 v2 · 2026-03-27 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NV5FI6HMYKYBQK4Q5UP7VPDVAO}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-05T00:13:46.140645Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d7a5478ecc2b0182b90ed1ffabc75039103b81baa8c61e4bed19ca4f5b6cba2

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.26233 · arxiv_version: 2603.26233v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.26233 · pith_short_12: NV5FI6HMYKYB · pith_short_16: NV5FI6HMYKYBQK4Q · pith_short_8: NV5FI6HM

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/NV5FI6HMYKYBQK4Q5UP7VPDVAO \
  | 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: 6d7a5478ecc2b0182b90ed1ffabc75039103b81baa8c61e4bed19ca4f5b6cba2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52f79fe6aaaea121833d7f2e5cc10de036d367600cf96bc25583ea6c46ac2d20",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-27T09:56:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d7bb8f456fa5fad7a8c52f71b8acd209982437f007a19281466074217e6ed264"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.26233",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}