Pith Number

pith:XLLWTQKG

pith:2026:XLLWTQKGFDYY6NJBFNBJTHRRDK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Agent Meltdowns: The Road to Hell Is Paved with Helpful Agents

Arkaprabha Bhattacharya, Harold Triedman, Rishi Jha, Vitaly Shmatikov

arxiv:2605.19149 v1 · 2026-05-18 · cs.CL · cs.CR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XLLWTQKGFDYY6NJBFNBJTHRRDK}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-20T01:05:29.570604Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bad769c14628f18f35212b42999e311ab035980623be6b13c62f78f72b067792

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.19149 · arxiv_version: 2605.19149v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.19149 · pith_short_12: XLLWTQKGFDYY · pith_short_16: XLLWTQKGFDYY6NJB · pith_short_8: XLLWTQKG

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/XLLWTQKGFDYY6NJBFNBJTHRRDK \
  | 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: bad769c14628f18f35212b42999e311ab035980623be6b13c62f78f72b067792

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "13bf411e8175ed644f473fd925a8b7a6379e23ae404675c69723a59fd682b987",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T22:03:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8075e2ba24673b9c4b70cae6926261f74c7f30e6fbe1f7cebfd4875f576e4df6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.19149",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}