Pith Number

pith:67QU5YDW

pith:2026:67QU5YDWP4ZP373T2T5ID6MEPN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stop Hand-Holding Your Coding Agent: Engineering the Loops that Replace Step-by-Step Prompting

Sandeco Macedo

arxiv:2607.00038 v1 · 2026-06-28 · cs.SE

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{67QU5YDWP4ZP373T2T5ID6MEPN}

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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	2026-07-02T00:18:32.136993Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f7e14ee0767f32fdff73d4fa81f9847b6363f51511b668d8c4f349fdafaa0718

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.00038 · arxiv_version: 2607.00038v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.00038 · pith_short_12: 67QU5YDWP4ZP · pith_short_16: 67QU5YDWP4ZP373T · pith_short_8: 67QU5YDW

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/67QU5YDWP4ZP373T2T5ID6MEPN \
  | 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: f7e14ee0767f32fdff73d4fa81f9847b6363f51511b668d8c4f349fdafaa0718

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95e0e7556ecfd908d9e6bd7500839aa1d0b1a760450207fcba878c150c101db3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-28T18:30:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "15c6678b16894cc8e6d6d3ac47eed45a0b817238ba83ae3e2ef040ccce05011a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.00038",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}