windbg used to offer scripting capabilities that teams could use to trigger validation of any number of internal data structures essentially at every breakpoint or watchpoint trigger. it was a tremendous way to detect subtle state corruption. and sharing scripts across teams was also a way to share knowledge of a complex binary that was often not encoded in asserts or other aspects of the codebase.
thanks for the pointers glad to hear it’s all still there
i haven’t seen this type of capability used in too many companies tbh and it seems like a lot of opportunity to improve stability and debugging speed and even code exploration/learning (did i break something ?)
