diff --git a/lib/internal/util/inspector.js b/lib/internal/util/inspector.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..634d3302333584
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/internal/util/inspector.js
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const hasInspector = process.config.variables.v8_enable_inspector === 1;
+const inspector = hasInspector ? require('inspector') : undefined;
+
+let session;
+
+function sendInspectorCommand(cb, onError) {
+  if (!hasInspector) return onError();
+  if (session === undefined) session = new inspector.Session();
+  try {
+    session.connect();
+    try {
+      return cb(session);
+    } finally {
+      session.disconnect();
+    }
+  } catch (e) {
+    return onError();
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  sendInspectorCommand
+};
diff --git a/lib/repl.js b/lib/repl.js
index da3ed78e9ebab6..0378a6664c43e4 100644
--- a/lib/repl.js
+++ b/lib/repl.js
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ const Module = require('module');
 const domain = require('domain');
 const debug = util.debuglog('repl');
 const errors = require('internal/errors');
+const { sendInspectorCommand } = require('internal/util/inspector');
 
 const parentModule = module;
 const replMap = new WeakMap();
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ for (var n = 0; n < GLOBAL_OBJECT_PROPERTIES.length; n++) {
     GLOBAL_OBJECT_PROPERTIES[n];
 }
 const kBufferedCommandSymbol = Symbol('bufferedCommand');
+const kContextId = Symbol('contextId');
 
 try {
   // hack for require.resolve("./relative") to work properly.
@@ -158,6 +160,8 @@ function REPLServer(prompt,
   self.last = undefined;
   self.breakEvalOnSigint = !!breakEvalOnSigint;
   self.editorMode = false;
+  // Context id for use with the inspector protocol.
+  self[kContextId] = undefined;
 
   // just for backwards compat, see github.com/joyent/node/pull/7127
   self.rli = this;
@@ -755,7 +759,16 @@ REPLServer.prototype.createContext = function() {
   if (this.useGlobal) {
     context = global;
   } else {
-    context = vm.createContext();
+    sendInspectorCommand((session) => {
+      session.post('Runtime.enable');
+      session.on('Runtime.executionContextCreated', ({ params }) => {
+        this[kContextId] = params.context.id;
+      });
+      context = vm.createContext();
+      session.post('Runtime.disable');
+    }, () => {
+      context = vm.createContext();
+    });
     context.global = context;
     const _console = new Console(this.outputStream);
     Object.defineProperty(context, 'console', {
@@ -890,6 +903,18 @@ function filteredOwnPropertyNames(obj) {
   return Object.getOwnPropertyNames(obj).filter(intFilter);
 }
 
+function getGlobalLexicalScopeNames(contextId) {
+  return sendInspectorCommand((session) => {
+    let names = [];
+    session.post('Runtime.globalLexicalScopeNames', {
+      executionContextId: contextId
+    }, (error, result) => {
+      if (!error) names = result.names;
+    });
+    return names;
+  }, () => []);
+}
+
 REPLServer.prototype.complete = function() {
   this.completer.apply(this, arguments);
 };
@@ -1053,6 +1078,7 @@ function complete(line, callback) {
         // If context is instance of vm.ScriptContext
         // Get global vars synchronously
         if (this.useGlobal || vm.isContext(this.context)) {
+          completionGroups.push(getGlobalLexicalScopeNames(this[kContextId]));
           var contextProto = this.context;
           while (contextProto = Object.getPrototypeOf(contextProto)) {
             completionGroups.push(
diff --git a/node.gyp b/node.gyp
index c1c83f6213f262..04d6eff57395b9 100644
--- a/node.gyp
+++ b/node.gyp
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@
       'lib/internal/url.js',
       'lib/internal/util.js',
       'lib/internal/util/comparisons.js',
+      'lib/internal/util/inspector.js',
       'lib/internal/util/types.js',
       'lib/internal/http2/core.js',
       'lib/internal/http2/compat.js',
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-repl-inspector.js b/test/parallel/test-repl-inspector.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..b02f6139e72d60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-repl-inspector.js
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const common = require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const repl = require('repl');
+
+common.skipIfInspectorDisabled();
+
+// This test verifies that the V8 inspector API is usable in the REPL.
+
+const putIn = new common.ArrayStream();
+let output = '';
+putIn.write = function(data) {
+  output += data;
+};
+
+const testMe = repl.start('', putIn);
+
+putIn.run(['const myVariable = 42']);
+
+testMe.complete('myVar', common.mustCall((error, data) => {
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(data, [['myVariable'], 'myVar']);
+}));
+
+putIn.run([
+  'const inspector = require("inspector")',
+  'const session = new inspector.Session()',
+  'session.connect()',
+  'session.post("Runtime.evaluate", { expression: "1 + 1" }, console.log)',
+  'session.disconnect()'
+]);
+
+assert(output.includes(
+  "null { result: { type: 'number', value: 2, description: '2' } }"));
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-repl-tab-complete.js b/test/parallel/test-repl-tab-complete.js
index 4bf6b7209d0bb4..c9048d887d5cab 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-repl-tab-complete.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-repl-tab-complete.js
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 const common = require('../common');
 const assert = require('assert');
 const fixtures = require('../common/fixtures');
+const hasInspector = process.config.variables.v8_enable_inspector === 1;
 
 // We have to change the directory to ../fixtures before requiring repl
 // in order to make the tests for completion of node_modules work properly
@@ -529,3 +530,23 @@ editorStream.run(['.editor']);
 editor.completer('var log = console.l', common.mustCall((error, data) => {
   assert.deepStrictEqual(data, [['console.log'], 'console.l']);
 }));
+
+{
+  // tab completion of lexically scoped variables
+  const stream = new common.ArrayStream();
+  const testRepl = repl.start({ stream });
+
+  stream.run([`
+    let lexicalLet = true;
+    const lexicalConst = true;
+    class lexicalKlass {}
+  `]);
+
+  ['Let', 'Const', 'Klass'].forEach((type) => {
+    const query = `lexical${type[0]}`;
+    const expected = hasInspector ? [[`lexical${type}`], query] : [];
+    testRepl.complete(query, common.mustCall((error, data) => {
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(data, expected);
+    }));
+  });
+}