📄 Full text: arXiv:2604.17460 · local
Using agentic AI workflows (Claude Code) to teach AI coding tools — structured pedagogy for tool mastery.
The Gap in AI Coding Education
Naboulsi (2026) identifies a paradox: AI coding assistants proliferate rapidly, but pedagogical frameworks for learning them remain scarce.
Current State
Learners face:- Fragmented resources: Blog posts, video tutorials, trial-and-error
- Documentation-to-practice gap: Tool docs ≠ pedagogical structure
- No progression scaffold: Jump from "hello world" to "production use" without intermediate structure
Agentic Workflow Pedagogy
The paper presents a framework for teaching Claude Code (agentic coding assistant) using Claude Code itself — recursive/agentic education.
Pedagogical Structure
| Phase | Focus | Agentic Capability |
|---|---|---|
| Tool familiarization | Basic commands, setup | Single-turn interactions |
| Task decomposition | Breaking problems into agentic steps | Multi-step planning |
| Autonomous execution | Letting agent run, monitoring | Self-correction, iteration |
| Meta-cognition | When to use (and not use) agentic workflows | Strategic tool selection |
Connection to Agentic Workflows in Education
This operationalizes agentic-workflows-education for a specific tool:
- Reflection: Agent reflects on its own code/approach
- Planning: Decomposes tasks before execution
- Tool use: Uses file I/O, shell, other tools
- Multi-agent: Could extend to peer-agent collaboration (cf. collaborative-ai-tutoring)
Implications
For CS Education
- Agentic literacy: Learning how to direct AI agents is a new learning objective
- Scaffolded autonomy: Progressive release of agentic control (teacher-guided → student-directed)
- Meta-cognitive skill: Knowing when agentic approaches help vs. hinder learning
For ITS Design
- Teach tool + teach with tool: Agentic systems can be both tutor and tutee
- Recursive pedagogy: Advanced agents can teach novice users (and novice agents)
- Transfer concerns: Does learning with Claude Code transfer to other agentic tools?
Related Pages
- computational-thinking-ai-agent-creation — No-code agent creation vs. coding assistants for CT development
- academiclaw-student-agent-benchmark — AcademiClaw: tests agentic AI on real student coding/research tasks — directly relevant to education coding workflows
- genai-meta-analysis-programming-learning — Synthesis frames individual studies on teaching coding with AI agents
- human-ai-co-mentorship — human mentors + AI tools co-mentoring in project-based learning
- agentic-workflows-education — Four-paradigm framework (reflection, planning, tool use, multi-agent)
- collaborative-ai-tutoring — Agentic collaboration (ProPACT pair programming)
- programming-its — ITS for programming (SCRIPT for Python)
- ai-literacy — Learning to use AI tools effectively
- metacognition — Strategic tool selection and self-regulation
- lecturaagents-multi-agent-teaching — LecturaAgents
- constructing-epistemic-ai-literacy-student-ai-co-programming — Constructing Epistemic AI Literacy: Detecting Epistemic Aims and Processes in St
Sources
- Naboulsi (2026). Agentic Education: Using Claude Code to Teach Claude Code. arXiv:2604.17460. PDF
- agents-that-teach-incidental-learning — Knowledge Debt and "agents that teach" design principles