Pith Number

pith:RIJY4VOH

pith:2026:RIJY4VOHDB5YDIHVRDORFCWY33

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Better, Faster, Stronger: Programmatic Skill Learning Best Reduces Agent Cost

Andrew Wang, Bernal Jim\'enez Guti\'errez, Daniel Khashabi, Nicholas Andrews, William Jurayj, Xiheng Wang, Zixi Huang

arxiv:2608.11338 v1 · 2026-08-11 · cs.CL · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RIJY4VOHDB5YDIHVRDORFCWY33}

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4 Citations 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	2026-08-13T00:21:37.773394Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a138e55c7187b81a0f588dd128ad8deeecb9375618d88893eeeae37b74b4ca5

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.11338 · arxiv_version: 2608.11338v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.11338 · pith_short_12: RIJY4VOHDB5Y · pith_short_16: RIJY4VOHDB5YDIHV · pith_short_8: RIJY4VOH

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RIJY4VOHDB5YDIHVRDORFCWY33 \
  | 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: 8a138e55c7187b81a0f588dd128ad8deeecb9375618d88893eeeae37b74b4ca5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4922f7b411ed699a8e6fca83c5dcd1329e065a1d948ae4084720af749fca347",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-11T18:42:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a6ef80ec88617e72c15a7b04830a12525d661662dd7940fad465b89dc417161e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.11338",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}