About BKPT Labs

Why BKPT Labs was founded

BKPT Labs brings together experience at chip vendors and in defense: knowledge of silicon internals and the practical demands of debugging complex systems.

Advanced debugging capabilities are often present in the silicon but poorly exposed by vendor tools. Engineers who need more are frequently directed to specialist products costing several thousand dollars for a single license.

That barrier leaves capabilities such as Embedded Trace Macrocell (ETM) instruction trace out of reach for many engineering teams. BKPT Labs was founded to make advanced debugging easier to discover, understand, and use, with accessible tools built around real engineering workflows.

Tools designed for engineers and AI

Engineers need a useful visual workspace. AI agents need direct control of the tools and structured access to the evidence. Adding an MCP server to a product built around its GUI does little for efficiency if an agent still needs repeated calls and raw-data parsing to work out what happened.

BKPT puts that access in the underlying tools: backend CLIs to control an investigation and queryable trace data to examine the results. Engineers, scripts, and agents can work with the same capabilities. An agent can ask for the evidence it needs and spend its context on the debugging problem.

Debug probe R&D

We’re also researching and developing an advanced debug probe with enterprise-level capture and debugging features. The goal is to bring those capabilities to a more accessible price point, so more engineers can use them on their own bench. This is active R&D, with the hardware still in development.

Explore the probe project →