AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford

Stanford's CS336 provides guidelines for AI coding assistants to act as teaching aids rather than solution providers, emphasizing that students should write substantial code themselves to build genuine understanding. AI agents should explain concepts, guide debugging through questions, review student code, and point to relevant materials—but must not write code, complete assignments, or provide direct solutions. The teaching approach prioritizes helping students discover answers through clarifying questions, suggested sanity checks, and dialog rather than giving away implementations or fixes.