Pith Number

pith:ZXGSYV6Z

pith:2026:ZXGSYV6ZNTCPYWHWQIMBOIBO64

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Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents

Fan Yang, Gen Dong, Liqun Li, Tianyin Xu, Yanjie Gao, Yu Hua

arxiv:2608.11888 v1 · 2026-08-12 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZXGSYV6ZNTCPYWHWQIMBOIBO64}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-08-13T01:28:46.645824Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cdcd2c57d96cc4fc58f6821817202ef723a09c41631fafaed49a719741572ca8

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.11888 · arxiv_version: 2608.11888v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.11888 · pith_short_12: ZXGSYV6ZNTCP · pith_short_16: ZXGSYV6ZNTCPYWHW · pith_short_8: ZXGSYV6Z

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZXGSYV6ZNTCPYWHWQIMBOIBO64 \
  | 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: cdcd2c57d96cc4fc58f6821817202ef723a09c41631fafaed49a719741572ca8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "042abc12f7f9ec6cefc8abf1d6ef86898e5d9a4ee54772cd8efdca4c26139683",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-12T10:15:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc9bac28c860a4066c5c8c6bf147bb2dbe13ef8ae76f0c5c6179d580a1310fa8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.11888",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}