{"state_type":"pith_open_graph_state","state_version":"1.0","pith_number":"pith:2026:45BMV5WIHHLC5AXUUSS4UZLHOB","merge_version":"pith-open-graph-merge-v1","event_count":2,"valid_event_count":2,"invalid_event_count":0,"equivocation_count":0,"current":{"canonical_record":{"metadata":{"abstract_canon_sha256":"f18e83d3768a4eb4c3b293a8746a643adda72d6a1c17f0ee607994a3821b9fbe","cross_cats_sorted":[],"license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","primary_cat":"cs.AI","submitted_at":"2026-06-17T14:53:36Z","title_canon_sha256":"364075c6f789deaabe5b15e6a3414d4f24150061c810ca7af63443f03bcf95ce"},"schema_version":"1.0","source":{"id":"2606.28374","kind":"arxiv","version":1}},"source_aliases":[{"alias_kind":"arxiv","alias_value":"2606.28374","created_at":"2026-06-30T00:15:12Z"},{"alias_kind":"arxiv_version","alias_value":"2606.28374v1","created_at":"2026-06-30T00:15:12Z"},{"alias_kind":"doi","alias_value":"10.48550/arxiv.2606.28374","created_at":"2026-06-30T00:15:12Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_12","alias_value":"45BMV5WIHHLC","created_at":"2026-06-30T00:15:12Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_16","alias_value":"45BMV5WIHHLC5AXU","created_at":"2026-06-30T00:15:12Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_8","alias_value":"45BMV5WI","created_at":"2026-06-30T00:15:12Z"}],"graph_snapshots":[{"event_id":"sha256:30866ffb0e22ee034b3a053c84ed6a57d46e81cd40329af957eb8419c5df4ea6","target":"graph","created_at":"2026-06-30T00:15:12Z","signer":{"key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","signer_id":"pith.science","signer_type":"pith_registry"},"payload":{"graph_snapshot":{"author_claims":{"count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","strong_count":0},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"integrity":{"available":true,"clean":true,"detectors_run":[],"endpoint":"/pith/2606.28374/integrity.json","findings":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938","summary":{"advisory":0,"by_detector":{},"critical":0,"informational":0}},"paper":{"abstract_excerpt":"LLM agents are increasingly improved without weight updates by evolving a natural-language artifact, such as reflections, workflows, playbooks, cheatsheets, or optimized prompts, that conditions a frozen policy. Such methods are typically reported as wins on the single benchmark where they help. We study them apples-to-apples and surface a sharper picture. We introduce RSEA, a Recursive Self-Evolving Agent that carries a compact three-layer natural-language state: an imperative strategy, reusable skills, and a procedural playbook. Across generations, RSEA rewrites all three layers from its own","authors_text":"Michael Nguyen, Paul Vuong, Quoc Nguyen","cross_cats":[],"headline":"","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","primary_cat":"cs.AI","submitted_at":"2026-06-17T14:53:36Z","title":"Recursive Self-Evolving Agents via Held-Out Selection"},"references":{"count":0,"internal_anchors":0,"resolved_work":0,"sample":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2606.28374","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"created_at":null,"id":null,"model_set":{},"one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"pith_extraction_headline":"","strongest_claim":"","weakest_assumption":""}},"verdict_id":null}}],"author_attestations":[],"timestamp_anchors":[],"storage_attestations":[],"citation_signatures":[],"replication_records":[],"corrections":[],"mirror_hints":[],"record_created":{"event_id":"sha256:e61523cd4e37654540e9991f480ec6f3fbee896337066fa816d7b5cbc68207b1","target":"record","created_at":"2026-06-30T00:15:12Z","signer":{"key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","signer_id":"pith.science","signer_type":"pith_registry"},"payload":{"attestation_state":"computed","canonical_record":{"metadata":{"abstract_canon_sha256":"f18e83d3768a4eb4c3b293a8746a643adda72d6a1c17f0ee607994a3821b9fbe","cross_cats_sorted":[],"license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","primary_cat":"cs.AI","submitted_at":"2026-06-17T14:53:36Z","title_canon_sha256":"364075c6f789deaabe5b15e6a3414d4f24150061c810ca7af63443f03bcf95ce"},"schema_version":"1.0","source":{"id":"2606.28374","kind":"arxiv","version":1}},"canonical_sha256":"e742caf6c839d62e82f4a4a5ca6567707b6b13862b1b861ecf48919470685b6e","receipt":{"algorithm":"ed25519","builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","canonical_sha256":"e742caf6c839d62e82f4a4a5ca6567707b6b13862b1b861ecf48919470685b6e","first_computed_at":"2026-06-30T00:15:12.322231Z","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","kind":"pith_receipt","last_reissued_at":"2026-06-30T00:15:12.322231Z","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","receipt_version":"0.3","signature_b64":"hrPQWbptku3hhh1CTEuF8wVR9KBhxOQpT4hN/VQQHSi+76PejWbh0dbCIQLH6oRgSrOpNEGAp6l0bKGRAwz+BA==","signature_status":"signed_v1","signed_at":"2026-06-30T00:15:12.322721Z","signed_message":"canonical_sha256_bytes"},"source_id":"2606.28374","source_kind":"arxiv","source_version":1}}},"equivocations":[],"invalid_events":[],"applied_event_ids":["sha256:e61523cd4e37654540e9991f480ec6f3fbee896337066fa816d7b5cbc68207b1","sha256:30866ffb0e22ee034b3a053c84ed6a57d46e81cd40329af957eb8419c5df4ea6"],"state_sha256":"56cc3424881fad0869520ab92761ae6ecb4f10b6725579eacd534103c23d80c8"}