diff --git a/.changeset/hip-books-eat.md b/.changeset/hip-books-eat.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2a3a4b1e9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/hip-books-eat.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@finos/legend-application-pure-ide': patch
+---
+
+Introduce Pure IDE terminal debug command
diff --git a/packages/legend-application-pure-ide/src/__lib__/LegendPureIDECommand.ts b/packages/legend-application-pure-ide/src/__lib__/LegendPureIDECommand.ts
index af1b05dda9..5ba26b22fc 100644
--- a/packages/legend-application-pure-ide/src/__lib__/LegendPureIDECommand.ts
+++ b/packages/legend-application-pure-ide/src/__lib__/LegendPureIDECommand.ts
@@ -162,4 +162,5 @@ export enum LEGEND_PURE_IDE_TERMINAL_COMMAND {
   CLEAR = 'clear',
   ANSI = 'ansi',
   HELP = 'help',
+  DEBUG = 'debug',
 }
diff --git a/packages/legend-application-pure-ide/src/stores/LegendPureIDETerminal.ts b/packages/legend-application-pure-ide/src/stores/LegendPureIDETerminal.ts
index 264a88cf6d..c2e35abbf5 100644
--- a/packages/legend-application-pure-ide/src/stores/LegendPureIDETerminal.ts
+++ b/packages/legend-application-pure-ide/src/stores/LegendPureIDETerminal.ts
@@ -343,6 +343,18 @@ export const setupTerminal = (ideStore: PureIDEStore): void => {
           return Promise.resolve();
         },
       },
+      {
+        command: LEGEND_PURE_IDE_TERMINAL_COMMAND.DEBUG,
+        description:
+          'Introsptect debug state.  When passing no parameters, will show display summary of available variables',
+        usage: 'debug [summary | abort | _expression_to_eval_]',
+        aliases: [],
+        handler: async (args: string[]): Promise<void> => {
+          flowResult(ideStore.debugging({ args })).catch(
+            ideStore.applicationStore.alertUnhandledError,
+          );
+        },
+      },
       {
         command: LEGEND_PURE_IDE_TERMINAL_COMMAND.HELP,
         description: 'Show help',
diff --git a/packages/legend-application-pure-ide/src/stores/PureIDEStore.ts b/packages/legend-application-pure-ide/src/stores/PureIDEStore.ts
index 484705f6db..64b2552278 100644
--- a/packages/legend-application-pure-ide/src/stores/PureIDEStore.ts
+++ b/packages/legend-application-pure-ide/src/stores/PureIDEStore.ts
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ export class PureIDEStore implements CommandRegistrar {
       loadFile: flow,
       execute: flow,
       executeGo: flow,
+      debugging: flow,
       manageExecuteGoResult: flow,
       executeTests: flow,
       executeFullTestSuite: flow,
@@ -880,6 +881,24 @@ export class PureIDEStore implements CommandRegistrar {
     );
   }
 
+  *debugging(command: { args: string[] }): GeneratorFn<void> {
+    yield flowResult(
+      this.client
+        .execute([], 'debugging', command)
+        .then((r) => {
+          const execResult = deserializeExecutionResult(
+            guaranteeNonNullable(r),
+          );
+          this.applicationStore.terminalService.terminal.output(
+            execResult.text!,
+          );
+        })
+        .catch((er) => {
+          this.applicationStore.terminalService.terminal.fail(er.message);
+        }),
+    );
+  }
+
   *manageExecuteGoResult(
     result: ExecutionResult,
     potentiallyAffectedFiles: string[],