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llmdbg

llmdbg is an early-stage debugger for stepping through language-model layers and presenting human-readable interpretations of internal vectors. It speaks the Debug Adapter Protocol so editor integrations can use a standard debugger UI.

The current prototype includes real GPT-2 Small loading, layer-state capture, logit-lens interpretations, and a VS Code debug extension. A deterministic built-in trace remains available when no model is configured.

pip install --pre llmdbg
llmdbg --version

VS Code prototype

Build and install the extension:

cd vscode-extension
npm install
npm run package
code --install-extension llmdbg-0.0.1.vsix

Create a gpt2.llmdbg file in the workspace:

[model]
id = "openai-community/gpt2"
revision = "main"
device = "cuda"
dtype = "bfloat16"

[input]
prompt = "The capital of France is"

[debug]
stop_on_entry = true

[[step]]
kind = "embedding"
path = "token_embedding"

[[step]]
kind = "attention"
path = "transformer.h.0.attention"

[[step]]
kind = "mlp"
path = "transformer.h.0.mlp"

Open that file and press F5. If VS Code asks for a debugger, choose llmdbg. No launch.json is required. If a workspace launch configuration is preferred, the complete minimal version is:

{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "type": "llmdbg",
      "request": "launch",
      "name": "llmdbg: Active file",
      "config": "${file}"
    }
  ]
}

On first use, the extension creates a private Python environment in VS Code's extension storage. It does not install anything into the workspace. The first GPT-2 run downloads and loads the model, then keeps its tensors resident in a persistent model-host process. Stopping and restarting the debugger reuses the resident model and runs only a new forward pass. Closing/reloading VS Code stops the host and releases the model. Each [[step]] is an authored model execution stop. Set breakpoints inside these tables or use Step Over to advance through them. Runtime vectors appear in debugger scopes; the source file is never rewritten.

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