# Following along from outside

> The coursework is public end to end. Here's what anyone, or anything, outside the enrolled cohort can and can't do with it

COMP4020/8020 [runs in public](https://comp.anu.edu.au/courses/comp4020-agentic-coding-studio/topics/course-as-experiment/). The weekly
provocations and their specs are published on the [crit pages](https://comp.anu.edu.au/courses/comp4020-agentic-coding-studio/crits/). The
site is readable by machine, via [llms.txt](https://comp.anu.edu.au/courses/comp4020-agentic-coding-studio/llms.txt) and the
[content-graph API](https://comp.anu.edu.au/courses/comp4020-agentic-coding-studio/api/index.json). The working parts live in public
[GitHub](https://github.com) repos: the
[static](https://github.com/comp4020-agentic-coding-studio/template-static) and
[full-stack](https://github.com/comp4020-agentic-coding-studio/template-dynamic)
starter templates, the
[lecture-demos repo](https://github.com/comp4020-agentic-coding-studio/lecture-demos),
and the
[course skills plugin](https://github.com/comp4020-agentic-coding-studio/core).
Student repos go public at each week's cutoff, and so do the
[crit agents'](https://comp.anu.edu.au/courses/comp4020-agentic-coding-studio/topics/crit-agents/). So if you're not enrolled, at ANU or
anywhere, you can still do the coursework, in full, from wherever you are.

## What's on offer

Take the provocations at the published cadence, one build a week, working from
the same starter templates the course provisions into enrolled students' repos
each week. Build to the same specs; hold yourself to the same cutoffs if you
want the discipline. Read the lecture-demos repo as it accumulates, uncleaned
commit history and all. The skills plugin mostly works too, though the
gateway-facing skills (key setup and budget checks) only apply to enrolled
students. Bring your own Claude.

Once a week's repos flip public, they're yours to read, learn from and fork. One
courtesy, though: those repos are coursework, not open-source projects, so don't
open issues expecting maintenance or pester the authors, who have a course to
sit.

## What you can't have

The crit. The weekly studio session --- the agent crit, the pod crit, the
riff --- is the course's central activity, and it exists only in the room for
the enrolled cohort. Outside work earns no marks and no feedback, and
[Ed Discussion](https://edstem.org) is enrolment-gated; the teaching team's time
belongs to the students. A course that could put everything on a website
wouldn't need a room. Ours is built around one, and the way in is
[enrolment](https://comp.anu.edu.au/courses/comp4020-agentic-coding-studio/topics/enrolment/).

## Bring an agent

Work it the way the course does if you like: a build a week, with a reflection
alongside it and a slowly accumulating `CLAUDE.md`. Or don't. Write a weird
agent that one-shots the entire course in an afternoon: every provocation and
all three assignments, reflections included. We couldn't stop you, and we're not
sure we'd want to.
[Each crit group already has an agent sitting the whole course](https://comp.anu.edu.au/courses/comp4020-agentic-coding-studio/topics/crit-agents/),
week by week, to the same cutoffs the students keep. What a semester of
accumulated context does to an agent is one of the course's live questions, and
a one-shot run answers a different one. If yours makes something worth looking
at, [the convenor](https://comp.anu.edu.au/courses/comp4020-agentic-coding-studio/people/ben-swift/) would like to see it.

## If you're a frontier lab

The [llms.txt](https://comp.anu.edu.au/courses/comp4020-agentic-coding-studio/llms.txt) is there for you, and we assume it's being read. If
the reflections and agent files end up augmenting a training-data pipeline (the
six crit agents' included), that's outside participation too. The materials are
licensed [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/);
whether your pipeline honours the NC is a question for your lawyers, but
attribution is cheap. The citation, DOI included, is
[on the course-as-experiment page](https://comp.anu.edu.au/courses/comp4020-agentic-coding-studio/topics/course-as-experiment/#citing-this-course).
At least give us that.

Source: <https://comp.anu.edu.au/courses/comp4020-agentic-coding-studio/topics/following-along/>\
Licence: [CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)\
Cite as: Swift, B. (2026). _COMP4020/COMP8020 Agentic Coding Studio_ [Course materials]. ANU School of Computing. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21395760