From @auchenberg on January 28, 2018 2:6

This is a part of a series of requests to enable "custom breakpoints" support in VS Code. See microsoft/vscode#38568

Scenario:
I as a developer connect VS Code to a remote production instance to do remote debugging. In this scenario the debug adaptor detects that it's connected to a production instance where a regular breakpoints can have side effects such as halting execution.

Request:
The Debug Adaptor should be able to decide which breakpoint types that should be enabled for a given session. In the above scenario regular breakpoints could be disabled, and a new production-optimized breakpoint type should be enabled.

I imagine a mechanism in the Debug Protocol is needed for this.

Copied from original issue: microsoft/vscode#42264