Pith Number

pith:2BBTPBHS

pith:2026:2BBTPBHSP6MRL73C7U33YBXGLE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When Agents Do Not Stop: Uncovering Infinite Agentic Loops in LLM Agents

Haoyu Wang, Shenao Wang, Xinyi Hou, Yanjie Zhao

arxiv:2607.01641 v1 · 2026-07-02 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2BBTPBHSP6MRL73C7U33YBXGLE}

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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	2026-07-03T01:17:04.254943Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d0433784f27f9915ff62fd37bc06e65918362f4c6d2ae60b3c03984743a1bda6

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.01641 · arxiv_version: 2607.01641v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.01641 · pith_short_12: 2BBTPBHSP6MR · pith_short_16: 2BBTPBHSP6MRL73C · pith_short_8: 2BBTPBHS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2BBTPBHSP6MRL73C7U33YBXGLE \
  | 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: d0433784f27f9915ff62fd37bc06e65918362f4c6d2ae60b3c03984743a1bda6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "be78a5c7214888c983b7e17ffcd92de4a12aff3d12b44fc410e0987280e0137d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-02T03:14:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4bcf2f1296739970bb6580dc4dc9761c54be8be8f4c5004c5f0edcb4e9cb4757"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.01641",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}