How to debug when tasks are loaded from external project I don't control

[mbabauer]

I am new to Gulp, and new to this project, but basically I am working on some node code that uses a base project, such that our code gets copied in as a module to theirs. We use gulp to start the app, and I'd like to add a task that will start it using node-inspector instead of plain node, but I am struggling.

In our gulpfile.js I have:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var nodeInspector = require('gulp-node-inspector');

var workflow = require('base-workflow');

workflow.use({
  gulp: gulp
});

gulp.task('default', ['base:default']);
gulp.task('debug', ['default'], function() { gulp.src([]).pipe(nodeInspector()); });

Where base:default is the task we run from the "parent" project, which copies our code in and runs 2 servers, one using Hapi for the web app and another started via gulp-nodemon that serves as a proxy for REST requests (proxies to a Java-based REST app or regurgitates pre-canned simulated responses). I this case, the only thing I want to debug is the Hapi server.

I have tried several iterations of the debug task, but nothing seems to work. If I pass default in as a dependency to the gulp.task('debug'), the app servers start but nothing is in the node-inspector. On the flip side, if I pass default to gulp.src() neither the web server or the REST proxy start, and node-inspector shows nothing.

How do I get node-inspector working when the tasks that start the app are pulled in from a separate gulpfile.js that I have no control over?