Pith Number

pith:OVXTJS2L

pith:2026:OVXTJS2LIKXI2W3GOB7QYDHXHX

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Does Code Cleanliness Affect Coding Agents? A Controlled Minimal-Pair Study

Olivier Schmitt (SonarSource), Priyansh Trivedi

arxiv:2605.20049 v1 · 2026-05-19 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OVXTJS2LIKXI2W3GOB7QYDHXHX}

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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	2026-05-20T02:06:00.145854Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

756f34cb4b42ae8d5b66707f0c0cf73de662be4523d281100a5d11b97118ca97

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.20049 · arxiv_version: 2605.20049v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.20049 · pith_short_12: OVXTJS2LIKXI · pith_short_16: OVXTJS2LIKXI2W3G · pith_short_8: OVXTJS2L

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OVXTJS2LIKXI2W3GOB7QYDHXHX \
  | 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: 756f34cb4b42ae8d5b66707f0c0cf73de662be4523d281100a5d11b97118ca97

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ba05e4937f3eb2bf4e63220bb5f3e5ca1fe021b268f22da9ca91299656297fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-19T16:06:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf78b64c90580c565398bff012ed440c16c4592004b3e218a95af2ab6781264d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.20049",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}