Pith Number

pith:YSME6DCN

pith:2026:YSME6DCNOMYB4GM3BEZQARRJGF

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Failure as a Process: An Anatomy of CLI Coding Agent Trajectories

Earl T. Barr, Federica Sarro, Han Li, He Ye, Shuaiting Li, Tianyi Zhao, Xiangxin Zhao

arxiv:2607.09510 v1 · 2026-07-10 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YSME6DCNOMYB4GM3BEZQARRJGF}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-13T01:20:14.911405Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c4984f0c4d73301e199b0933004629314e5c5b958dd962eb9c60e5e74f8acd55

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.09510 · arxiv_version: 2607.09510v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.09510 · pith_short_12: YSME6DCNOMYB · pith_short_16: YSME6DCNOMYB4GM3 · pith_short_8: YSME6DCN

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/YSME6DCNOMYB4GM3BEZQARRJGF \
  | 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: c4984f0c4d73301e199b0933004629314e5c5b958dd962eb9c60e5e74f8acd55

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "24ed073fb1068ee4c399c81d882567c688ffd285cfbe234bef148f1889ba9012",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-10T15:25:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a135a278da4a7a64363e6adc6ad9933a349a957fbd33e1c9a611f80945404e4d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.09510",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}