Pith Number

pith:5UXEKRJP

pith:2026:5UXEKRJPG6XDGH2MDSZ52T7ZLA

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"So There's a Catch-22 Here": How Early Adopters Who Build Multi-Agent LLM Systems Conceptualize Transparency

Amanda Hall, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Samir Passi, Scott Saponas, Suchismita Naik

arxiv:2606.08323 v1 · 2026-06-06 · cs.HC · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{5UXEKRJPG6XDGH2MDSZ52T7ZLA}

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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	2026-06-09T01:05:33.613509Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed2e45452f37ae331f4c1cb3dd4ff9583b77b0a3e0d63cc67430fcb6770ad764

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.08323 · arxiv_version: 2606.08323v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.08323 · pith_short_12: 5UXEKRJPG6XD · pith_short_16: 5UXEKRJPG6XDGH2M · pith_short_8: 5UXEKRJP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5UXEKRJPG6XDGH2MDSZ52T7ZLA \
  | 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: ed2e45452f37ae331f4c1cb3dd4ff9583b77b0a3e0d63cc67430fcb6770ad764

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c54db87b24e5333852ad2a425b0b5a0d43ff58708ae262e7391e4473a31f7fd3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-06T20:24:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a3b2167ced692821c2e7cbc4f1170d86120e92207097e4ed248d1caf56c073e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.08323",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}