Pith Number

pith:XYPGECFN

pith:2024:XYPGECFNQW2DXIWNY5ZQYI66UV

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The Hidden Costs of Automation: An Empirical Study on GitHub Actions Workflow Maintenance

Alexandre Bergel, Oscar Nierstrasz, Pablo Valenzuela-Toledo, Timo Kehrer

arxiv:2409.02366 v1 · 2024-09-04 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XYPGECFNQW2DXIWNY5ZQYI66UV}

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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	2026-07-05T09:02:46.196404Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be1e6208ad85b43ba2cdc7730c23dea56a422dd96a746a591452c1dc0c06fc6a

Aliases

arxiv: 2409.02366 · arxiv_version: 2409.02366v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2409.02366 · pith_short_12: XYPGECFNQW2D · pith_short_16: XYPGECFNQW2DXIWN · pith_short_8: XYPGECFN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XYPGECFNQW2DXIWNY5ZQYI66UV \
  | 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: be1e6208ad85b43ba2cdc7730c23dea56a422dd96a746a591452c1dc0c06fc6a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d7edb0e661f1a76128a206905f371e26de4b7fb58f067c204cfdafbe5d1e77f0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2024-09-04T01:33:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62c74aaafb0e094865db2387a5357e6c9701c3c4a64fe42e8df886c41f638b7a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2409.02366",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}