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pith:PVQVSZVI

pith:2026:PVQVSZVIMTXHASXHXA4SVEX6GY

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When Agents Disagree With Themselves: Behavioral Consistency as an Uncertainty Signal for LLM Agents

Aman Mehta

arxiv:2602.11619 v2 · 2026-02-12 · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-16T00:21:45.283421Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d615966a864ee704ae7b8392a92fe3631ad0af674c7e1179108654fe5add4b0

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.11619 · arxiv_version: 2602.11619v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.11619 · pith_short_12: PVQVSZVIMTXH · pith_short_16: PVQVSZVIMTXHASXH · pith_short_8: PVQVSZVI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PVQVSZVIMTXHASXHXA4SVEX6GY \
  | 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: 7d615966a864ee704ae7b8392a92fe3631ad0af674c7e1179108654fe5add4b0

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-12T06:15:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7f48dd60d781344b1abdf9d2e3cdb00f151aa63bd305613b1d4e2b19ade77833"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.11619",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}