Stanford CS336 publishes guidelines telling AI coding assistants to tutor students without generating assignment solutions

Stanford’s CS336 repository includes a CLAUDE.md file that instructs AI coding tools to act as teaching assistants rather than solution generators. The guidance encourages explanations, debugging prompts, code review, references to course materials, and high-level algorithmic nudges while preserving the course’s implementation-heavy learning goals.

The document reflects a growing move to formalize AI tutoring norms inside software engineering and machine learning coursework. As coding agents become standard student tools, universities are likely to adopt explicit policies that separate acceptable guidance from academic-integrity violations.

AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford