Pith Number

pith:3GZ56ZTY

pith:2026:3GZ56ZTYHNGIFETF43KJ7IKKOZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

More Skills, Worse Agents? Skill Shadowing Degrades Performance When Expanding Skill Libraries

Hongwen Song, Song (Vinson) Wei

arxiv:2605.24050 v1 · 2026-05-21 · cs.SE · cs.AI · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3GZ56ZTYHNGIFETF43KJ7IKKOZ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-26T01:02:42.896312Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d9b3df66783b4c829265e6d49fa14a765141ed6941a13eaae03940621ca8fb3a

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.24050 · arxiv_version: 2605.24050v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.24050 · pith_short_12: 3GZ56ZTYHNGI · pith_short_16: 3GZ56ZTYHNGIFETF · pith_short_8: 3GZ56ZTY

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/3GZ56ZTYHNGIFETF43KJ7IKKOZ \
  | 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: d9b3df66783b4c829265e6d49fa14a765141ed6941a13eaae03940621ca8fb3a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f1578b7fc574945a0652a3ede714053363f5a9c16fb619b135e68156ece4ec90",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-21T23:33:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2af471339e5f63e7ed4bca7a8d448cec52f9bf2f783979e1ace0d7d11431b036"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.24050",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}