Pith Number

pith:ZFHY3IYH

pith:2026:ZFHY3IYH4XMHBXO3OETEB7T7MW

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Strained Coherence: A Pre-Failure Signal in Coding Agent Execution Trajectories

Baiqing Lyu, Kasey Zhang, Marut Pandya

arxiv:2606.07889 v1 · 2026-06-05 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZFHY3IYH4XMHBXO3OETEB7T7MW}

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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	2026-06-09T01:04:54.620060Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c94f8da307e5d870dddb712640fe7f65ae2f799568f5c069bf15c9c1a881654b

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.07889 · arxiv_version: 2606.07889v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.07889 · pith_short_12: ZFHY3IYH4XMH · pith_short_16: ZFHY3IYH4XMHBXO3 · pith_short_8: ZFHY3IYH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZFHY3IYH4XMHBXO3OETEB7T7MW \
  | 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: c94f8da307e5d870dddb712640fe7f65ae2f799568f5c069bf15c9c1a881654b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "72b5b3b6acad2dde5da424af16455766dc3b29b325985c2c4f556501762279c0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-05T22:52:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "de52eb9341914ed67da4efe94b1ff614486e976beb2446691d4046d1b0ef7a84"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.07889",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}