Show HN: I built a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crashes

summary

ForensicDbg is a modern post-mortem debugger for Windows designed to simplify the process of tracking down complex bugs. It combines a high-performance UI with advanced data interpretation capabilities to provide clearer insights into crash dumps. The tool integrates with AI tools via an MCP server, allowing LLMs to analyze crashes more efficiently. This approach reduces token costs while increasing the accuracy of AI-assisted debugging.

key points

1. The debugger features an intuitive, color-coded UI that allows users to navigate process spaces by clicking addresses and viewing labeled memory regions. It uses multi-threaded symbol loading to keep panels synchronized and responsive.
2. The engine incorporates expert-level data interpretation, such as simulating image loaders to reconstruct missing regions in mini-dumps and validating callstacks to remove misleading references. It automatically identifies the exact thread and instruction that caused an exception.
3. The MCP interface allows AI tools to access the powerful debugging engine directly. By providing interpreted and labeled data, it reduces the workload on the LLMs, leading to lower token costs and higher quality analysis results.

who should read it

Windows software developers and security researchers who need to perform post-mortem debugging on x86 and x64 crash dumps.

discussion mixed