Pith Number

pith:USH7WACP

pith:2025:USH7WACP3BTD7V2V2TKVXHFZ66

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Rethinking Agent Design: From Top-Down Workflows to Bottom-Up Skill Evolution

Bing Li, Jiawei Du, Jinlong Wu, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Yucheng Hu, Yuzheng Chen

arxiv:2505.17673 v1 · 2025-05-23 · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{USH7WACP3BTD7V2V2TKVXHFZ66}

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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	2026-07-05T11:08:30.199392Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a48ffb004fd8663fd755d4d55b9cb9f7a23885f020f589f9690425255fd15c12

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.17673 · arxiv_version: 2505.17673v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.17673 · pith_short_12: USH7WACP3BTD · pith_short_16: USH7WACP3BTD7V2V · pith_short_8: USH7WACP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/USH7WACP3BTD7V2V2TKVXHFZ66 \
  | 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: a48ffb004fd8663fd755d4d55b9cb9f7a23885f020f589f9690425255fd15c12

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-23T09:38:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "45c8075c236aa63cf707731141fb7efbf5beaa50a6576dd8bce7846e1a0cb637"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2505.17673",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}