Golang x/tools/gopls: under vscode run and debug choses wrong types

What version of Go are you using (`go version`)?

$ go version
go version go1.25.1 darwin/arm64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (`go env`)?

go env Output

$ go env
AR='ar'
CC='cc'
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_ENABLED='1'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CXX='c++'
GCCGO='gccgo'
GO111MODULE=''
GOARCH='arm64'
GOARM64='v8.0'
GOAUTH='netrc'
GOBIN=''
GOCACHE='/Users/a25058/Library/Caches/go-build'
GOCACHEPROG=''
GODEBUG=''
GOENV='/Users/a25058/Library/Application Support/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFIPS140='off'
GOFLAGS=''
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -arch arm64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/var/folders/cl/_2y767694xv2bmsy7svq871w0000gp/T/go-build2988189532=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common'
GOHOSTARCH='arm64'
GOHOSTOS='darwin'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMOD='/Users/a25058/htdocs/evcc/go.mod'
GOMODCACHE='/Users/a25058/go/pkg/mod'
GONOPROXY=''
GONOSUMDB=''
GOOS='darwin'
GOPATH='/Users/a25058/go'
GOPRIVATE=''
GOPROXY='https://proxy.golang.org,direct'
GOROOT='/opt/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.25.1/libexec'
GOSUMDB='sum.golang.org'
GOTELEMETRY='local'
GOTELEMETRYDIR='/Users/a25058/Library/Application Support/go/telemetry'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='auto'
GOTOOLDIR='/opt/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.25.1/libexec/pkg/tool/darwin_arm64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.25.1'
GOWORK=''
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'
uname -v: Darwin Kernel Version 24.6.0: Mon Aug 11 21:15:09 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.140.69.701.11~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6041
ProductName:        macOS
ProductVersion:     15.7
BuildVersion:       24G222
lldb --version: lldb-1700.0.9.502
Apple Swift version 6.1.2 (swiftlang-6.1.2.1.2 clang-1700.0.13.5)

What did you do?

Start debug session in VScode, look at variables:

What did you expect to see?

requiredDuration should be type time.Duration.

What did you see instead?

requiredDuration is shown as grpc type with a confusing value (actual value is 0).

Comment From: gabyhelp

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Comment From: ArjitGopher

please assign this issue to me