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title: "idea-scout triage: 'Teaching Software Engineering with LLM and MCP Integration' — a software-engineering EDUCATION / pedagogy paper, not a capability, threat, or mechanism-level prior art for an agent kernel. Close / not adopted — out of kernel scope. Recorded residual: it is one external data point that MCP is entering mainstream industry SE practice (the adoption trend fak's tool-call seam exists to govern), and a clean exemplar of the scout's keyword-vs-mission gap — a `model context protocol` / `mcp` title match that is on-topic by keyword and off-mission by content. No code change (2026-06-27)"
description: "Triage of the idea-scout candidate arXiv:2606.19167 (Kehui Chen, Jacky Keung, Weining Li, Xiangbing Shao, Yishu Li, Xiaoxue Ma — 'Teaching Software Engineering with LLM and MCP Integration: From Classroom to Industry Practice'): a pedagogy study that integrates LLM- and MCP-driven tools into a collaborative software-engineering TEACHING model — daily teaching, code assistance, engineering simulations, plus industry-internship partnerships — to bridge classroom instruction and industrial workflows. Verdict: close / not adopted — out of scope for an agent kernel. fak is a runtime trust + performance gate at the tool-call seam, not a curriculum, a teaching platform, or a learning framework; the paper proposes no system fak would adopt, no attack to defend against, and no mechanism-level prior art for fak's adjudication / cross-turn-reuse design. The only honest residual is contextual: the paper is one more external signal that MCP adoption is moving from frontier into mainstream industrial-and-now-academic SE practice — the very trend that makes a default-deny capability floor on MCP tool calls worth shipping — so it is recorded as adoption-trend context, not cited as prior art for any fak mechanism. Scout-calibration note: surfaced under topic mcp-security (score 47, the lowest of the day's three idea-scout hits) on a bare `model context protocol` / `mcp (title)` keyword match plus a freshness bonus; a true on-topic-by-keyword, off-mission-by-content candidate — the scout working as designed (flag for human triage, never auto-adopt). n=1 is not enough to retune the scorer. No change to tools/idea_scout.py."
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# idea-scout triage — teaching software engineering with LLM + MCP (issue #1009)

> Closes the daily idea-scout candidate [#1009](https://github.com/anthony-chaudhary/fak/issues/1009)
> (`tools/idea_scout.py`, filed 2026-06-27). The scout judges whether a candidate is
> *new and on-topic*; this note is the human triage it hands off — adopt as a
> capability, defend against as a threat, or cite as prior art (see
> [`docs/idea-scout.md`](../idea-scout.md)).
> **Verdict: close / not adopted — out of kernel scope. This is a software-engineering
> EDUCATION / pedagogy paper, not infrastructure, an attack, or a defense. It proposes
> no system fak would adopt, no threat to defend against, and no mechanism-level prior
> art for fak's adjudication or cross-turn-reuse design. Recorded only as one external
> data point on MCP's move into mainstream industrial SE practice — the adoption trend
> fak's tool-call seam exists to govern. No code change.**

**Source:** https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19167 — "Teaching Software Engineering with LLM
and MCP Integration: From Classroom to Industry Practice", Kehui Chen, Jacky Keung,
Weining Li, Xiangbing Shao, Yishu Li, Xiaoxue Ma (submitted 2026-06-17). Read from the
arXiv abstract via WebFetch on 2026-06-27; this is a surface read of the abstract, not a
paper audit.

## What it is

An **education** paper, not a security or systems one. Its premise: the rapid integration
of LLMs and the Model Context Protocol into *industrial* software engineering has created
a need to update software-engineering *education* to match. Its contribution is a
**collaborative teaching model** that embeds LLM- and MCP-driven tools into three places —
**daily teaching**, **code assistance**, and **engineering simulations** — and pairs that
with **industry-internship partnerships**, so students apply the same tools in real
settings. The reported outcome is pedagogical: stronger programming competence, practical
problem-solving, and proficiency with intelligent engineering tools, with a closer tie
between academic preparation and professional practice.

It proposes a **curriculum and a teaching framework**. It does not propose a serving
system, a protocol, an attack, or a defense.

## Why this is out of scope for fak

fak is an **agent kernel**: one Go binary that sits between an AI agent and the tools it
calls and adjudicates every tool call before it runs — a default-deny capability floor
(security gate) plus do-the-shared-setup-once cross-turn reuse (performance gate). The
three triage questions resolve cleanly, and all three to "no":

- **Adopt as a capability?** **No.** There is nothing to fold into the kernel. A teaching
  model, a course structure, and internship partnerships are not kernel components, MCP
  servers, or serving primitives. The paper's "MCP-driven tools" are the *teaching aids*
  students use, not a runtime fak would govern or a mechanism fak would implement.
- **Defend against as a threat?** **No.** There is no attack, adversary, or failure mode
  here — it is a pedagogy study on the same side of, and largely orthogonal to, fak's
  trust boundary.
- **Cite as mechanism-level prior art?** **No.** The paper says nothing about tool-call
  adjudication, capability floors, prompt-injection containment, KV/prefix-cache reuse,
  or any other seam fak builds. Citing it as prior art for a fak mechanism would be a
  keyword-driven stretch, not an honest lineage (contrast the genuine prior-art lineage
  in [AgenticOS](RESEARCH-agenticos-intent-os-triage-2026-06-26.md) /
  [out-of-band injection defenses](RESEARCH-out-of-band-injection-defense-taxonomy-triage-2026-06-26.md),
  each of which names fak's own security family).

## The one honest residual — adoption-trend context, not a citation

The single durable signal worth keeping is **contextual, not technical**: the paper is one
more external indicator that **MCP is moving from a frontier protocol into mainstream
industrial — and now academic — software-engineering practice**. That trend is precisely
what makes shipping a **default-deny capability floor on MCP tool calls** worth doing: the
more places MCP-driven tools run (including the hands of students heading into industry),
the larger the surface a runtime trust gate governs. This belongs in fak's *why-now*
context, alongside the broader MCP-adoption signal — it is **not** prior art for any fak
mechanism, and this note does not cite it as such.

## Triage decision

- **Adopt?** No — out of kernel scope (a curriculum, not infrastructure).
- **Defend against?** No — not a threat.
- **Cite as prior art?** No — no mechanism overlap; recorded as adoption-trend context only.

**Action:** close #1009 as triaged → **out of scope / not adopted** (this note). No code
change in this increment: the right small artifact for an off-mission research candidate is
the recorded verdict, not a speculative feature.

**Scout calibration (no code change).** The candidate surfaced under topic `mcp-security`
(score **47**, the lowest of the day's three idea-scout hits — cf. #1007 MIRROR red-teaming
and #1008 CoT-training-gains) on a bare `model context protocol` / `mcp (title)` keyword
match plus a recency/freshness bonus (≤30d). This is a true **on-topic-by-keyword,
off-mission-by-content** candidate: the title carries the exact term the scout watches, but
the body is education research. The scout behaved **as designed** — it judges *new and
on-topic*, never *worth building*, and it handed the call to human triage (see
[`docs/idea-scout.md`](../idea-scout.md), "A note on what it does *not* do"). A single hit
is not enough to retune the scorer (the same `mcp (title)` term correctly surfaced #911
ShareLock and #584 PrologMCP), so there is **no change to `tools/idea_scout.py`** — only
this recorded exemplar of the keyword-vs-mission gap, a sibling of the PrologMCP
capability/security miscategorization triaged in
[RESEARCH-prologmcp-symbolic-tool-triage-2026-06-24.md](RESEARCH-prologmcp-symbolic-tool-triage-2026-06-24.md).
