Pith Number

pith:ZKA3FN2Y

pith:2026:ZKA3FN2YLBXJ3FTTDTZYQ3PE7W

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Decoupling Code Complexity from Newcomer Participation: A Causal Study of AI Coding Agent Adoption in OSS

Hengzhi Ye, Minghui Zhou, Weiwei Xu, Xuanning Cui

arxiv:2607.01810 v1 · 2026-07-02 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{ZKA3FN2YLBXJ3FTTDTZYQ3PE7W}

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First computed	2026-07-03T01:17:30.497451Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ca81b2b758586e9d96731cf3886de4fd8777542e28a92adc6f79f1e949b5a6d4

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.01810 · arxiv_version: 2607.01810v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.01810 · pith_short_12: ZKA3FN2YLBXJ · pith_short_16: ZKA3FN2YLBXJ3FTT · pith_short_8: ZKA3FN2Y

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZKA3FN2YLBXJ3FTTDTZYQ3PE7W \
  | 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: ca81b2b758586e9d96731cf3886de4fd8777542e28a92adc6f79f1e949b5a6d4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b12d7389101b10a0630c2220ae57ceaf4315255fc79b4b0a78b680913aadd5d2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-02T07:24:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "572606ed5f53318d53248cd6a2ef1007f14135aad6f0b83d3c71a57fb8874fb4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.01810",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}