diff --git a/evennia/contrib/utils/debugpy/README.md b/evennia/contrib/utils/debugpy/README.md
index e18453f01f..5538defa83 100644
--- a/evennia/contrib/utils/debugpy/README.md
+++ b/evennia/contrib/utils/debugpy/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-# In-game debugpy command
+# debugpy
+
+Contribution by electroglyph, 2025
 
 This registers an in-game command `debugpy` which starts the debugpy debugger and listens on port 5678.
 For now this is only available for Visual Studio Code (VS Code).
@@ -9,11 +11,8 @@ https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-63403/Support-debugpy
 
 Credit for this goes to Moony on the Evennia Discord getting-help channel, thx Moony!
 
-0xDEADFED5 simply tied a pretty bow around it and stuck it here for everybody else.
 
-
-
-## Dependencies
+## Installation
 
 This requires VS Code and debugpy, so make sure you're using VS Code.
 
@@ -21,7 +20,7 @@ From the venv where you installed Evennia run:
 
 `pip install debugpy`
 
-## Enable the command in Evennia
+### Enable the command in Evennia
 
 In your Evennia mygame folder, open up `/commands/default_cmdsets.py`
 
@@ -31,49 +30,7 @@ in CharacterCmdSet.at_cmdset_creation add this under `super().at_cmdset_creation
 
 `self.add(CmdDebugPy)`
 
-For a newly initialized game, the result would look like this at the top of the file:
-
-```python
-"""
-Command sets
-
-All commands in the game must be grouped in a cmdset.  A given command
-can be part of any number of cmdsets and cmdsets can be added/removed
-and merged onto entities at runtime.
-
-To create new commands to populate the cmdset, see
-`commands/command.py`.
-
-This module wraps the default command sets of Evennia; overloads them
-to add/remove commands from the default lineup. You can create your
-own cmdsets by inheriting from them or directly from `evennia.CmdSet`.
-
-"""
-
-from evennia import default_cmds
-from evennia.contrib.utils.debugpy.cmd import CmdDebugPy
-
-class CharacterCmdSet(default_cmds.CharacterCmdSet):
-    """
-    The `CharacterCmdSet` contains general in-game commands like `look`,
-    `get`, etc available on in-game Character objects. It is merged with
-    the `AccountCmdSet` when an Account puppets a Character.
-    """
-
-    key = "DefaultCharacter"
-
-    def at_cmdset_creation(self):
-        """
-        Populates the cmdset
-        """
-        super().at_cmdset_creation()
-        #
-        # any commands you add below will overload the default ones.
-        #
-        self.add(CmdDebugPy)
-```
-
-## Add "remote attach" option to VS Code debugger
+### Add "remote attach" option to VS Code debugger
 
 Start VS Code and open your launch.json like this:
 
@@ -88,7 +45,7 @@ Add this to your configuration:
             "type": "debugpy",
             "request": "attach",
             "connect": {
-                "host": "localhost",
+                "host": "127.0.0.1",
                 "port": 5678
             },
             "pathMappings": [
@@ -100,7 +57,7 @@ Add this to your configuration:
         },
 ```
 
-Use `localhost` for the host if you are running Evennia from the same machine you'll be debugging from.  Otherwise, if you want to debug a remote server, change host (and possibly remoteRoot mapping) as necessary.
+Use `127.0.0.1` for the host if you are running Evennia from the same machine you'll be debugging from.  Otherwise, if you want to debug a remote server, change host (and possibly remoteRoot mapping) as necessary.
 
 Afterwards it should look something like this:
 
@@ -124,7 +81,7 @@ Afterwards it should look something like this:
             "type": "debugpy",
             "request": "attach",
             "connect": {
-                "host": "localhost",
+                "host": "127.0.0.1",
                 "port": 5678
             },
             "pathMappings": [
@@ -140,7 +97,7 @@ Afterwards it should look something like this:
 
 (notice the comma between the curly braces)
 
-## Use it
+## Usage
 
 Set a breakpoint in VS Code where you want the debugger to stop at.
 
diff --git a/evennia/contrib/utils/debugpy/cmd.py b/evennia/contrib/utils/debugpy/cmd.py
index 71f0b9116b..58f127013e 100644
--- a/evennia/contrib/utils/debugpy/cmd.py
+++ b/evennia/contrib/utils/debugpy/cmd.py
@@ -29,6 +29,6 @@ class CmdDebugPy(COMMAND_DEFAULT_CLASS):
         caller = self.caller
         caller.msg("Waiting for debugger attach...")
         yield 0.1  # make sure msg is sent first
-        debugpy.listen(("localhost", 5678))
+        debugpy.listen(5678)
         debugpy.wait_for_client()
         caller.msg("Debugger attached.")