Dbg
One CLI debugger for every language (AI-agent ready)
Details
- External ID
- 47754296
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Dbg
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- April 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.38817480719794345
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
AI agents are great at writing code but blind at runtime. They guess, print, and waste tokens.I built dbg to give them a real debugger experience. Since it is backend based with the few I implemented (still at basic level) it can support 15+ languages with one simple CLI (still some work needed but it is functional as it is):LLDB, Delve, PDB, JDB, node inspect, rdbg, phpdbg, GHCi, etc. Profilers too (perf, pprof, cProfile, Valgrind…)I also added GPU profiling via `gdbg` (CUDA, PyTorch, Triton kernels). It auto-dispatches and shares the same unified interface. (Planning to bring those advanced concepts back to the main dbg).Works with Claude & Codex (probably works on others but didn't try them)Quick start: ``` curl -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/redknightlois/dbg/main/ins... | sh dbg --init claude (for claude) ```Then just say: “use dbg to debug the crash in src/foo.rs”Docs: https://redknightlois.github.io/dbg/ GitHub (MIT Licensed): https://github.com/redknightlois/dbgWould love feedback from anyone building agents. What languages or features are you missing most? Ping me at @federicolois on X or open issues.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent frameworks and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- universal debugger cli for all languages
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Interfacing with the Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) or native debuggers (GDB, LLDB, PDB, Delve) across 15+ programming languages requires deep systems programming and debugging architecture expertise.
What it would actually take: Building a unified CLI debugger requires implementing or embedding a full Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) client, managing process lifecycles, signal handling, breakpoints, stack frame unwinding, and runtime variable inspection across diverse debug runtimes. The architecture involves a core orchestrator (Rust/Go) managing subprocess I/O and DAP JSON-RPC streams across language-specific adapters, with robust fallback mechanisms for headless agent environments.
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