Pith Number

pith:OPTQBBIX

pith:2026:OPTQBBIXHHSVPL23EJXODABIU5

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Governance Decay: How Context Compaction Silently Erases Safety Constraints in Long-Horizon LLM Agents

Shiyang Chen

arxiv:2606.22528 v1 · 2026-06-21 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OPTQBBIXHHSVPL23EJXODABIU5}

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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	2026-06-23T02:13:40.864566Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

73e700851739e557af5b226ee18028a74fa7772dee12177664a8989b11f15fba

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.22528 · arxiv_version: 2606.22528v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.22528 · pith_short_12: OPTQBBIXHHSV · pith_short_16: OPTQBBIXHHSVPL23 · pith_short_8: OPTQBBIX

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OPTQBBIXHHSVPL23EJXODABIU5 \
  | 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: 73e700851739e557af5b226ee18028a74fa7772dee12177664a8989b11f15fba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5bd3202a8e915a56ce9cdfa69fb7c1fc4802a65144bf6825dac2f79f32b93890",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-21T14:30:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b47f8d4a7bebecc3a39ebb3159e45a7826af8a57b6ab641aca2f79466f66ea99"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.22528",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}