diff --git a/src/spec-node/featuresCLI/test.ts b/src/spec-node/featuresCLI/test.ts
index 8909b2540..8b0f2c569 100644
--- a/src/spec-node/featuresCLI/test.ts
+++ b/src/spec-node/featuresCLI/test.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ export function featuresTestOptions(y: Argv) {
 			'remote-user': { type: 'string', alias: 'u', describe: 'Remote user.  Not used for scenarios.', },  // TODO: Optionally replace 'scenario' configs with this value?
 			'log-level': { choices: ['info' as 'info', 'debug' as 'debug', 'trace' as 'trace'], default: 'info' as 'info', description: 'Log level.' },
 			'skip-image-metadata': { type: 'boolean', default: false, description: 'Skip applying image metadata to the resultant test image.  Image metadata is potentially appended to base images built with the dev container CLI' },
+			'remote-env': { type: 'string', description: 'Remote environment variables of the format name=value. These will be added when executing the user commands.' },
 			'quiet': { type: 'boolean', alias: 'q', default: false, description: 'Quiets output' },
 		})
 		// DEPRECATED: Positional arguments don't play nice with the variadic/array --features option.
@@ -39,6 +40,10 @@ export function featuresTestOptions(y: Argv) {
 			if (argv['filter-scenarios'] && argv['skip-scenarios']) {
 				throw new Error('Cannot combine --filter-scenarios and --skip-scenarios');
 			}
+			const remoteEnvs = (argv['remote-env'] && (Array.isArray(argv['remote-env']) ? argv['remote-env'] : [argv['remote-env']])) as string[] | undefined;
+			if (remoteEnvs?.some(remoteEnv => !/.+=.+/.test(remoteEnv))) {
+				throw new Error('Unmatched argument format: remote-env must match <name>=<value>');
+			}
 			return true;
 
 		});
@@ -56,6 +61,7 @@ export interface FeaturesTestCommandInput {
 	skipScenarios: boolean;
 	skipAutogenerated: boolean;
 	remoteUser: string | undefined;
+	remoteEnv: string[] | undefined;
 	quiet: boolean;
 	skipImageMetadata: boolean;
 	logLevel: LogLevel;
@@ -76,6 +82,7 @@ async function featuresTest({
 	'skip-scenarios': skipScenarios,
 	'skip-autogenerated': skipAutogenerated,
 	'remote-user': remoteUser,
+	'remote-env': remoteEnvString,
 	quiet,
 	'skip-image-metadata': skipImageMetadata,
 	'log-level': inputLogLevel,
@@ -94,6 +101,8 @@ async function featuresTest({
 	// Prefer the new --project-folder option over the deprecated positional argument.
 	const targetProject = collectionFolder !== '.' ? collectionFolder : collectionFolder_deprecated;
 
+	const remoteEnv = (remoteEnvString && (Array.isArray(remoteEnvString) ? remoteEnvString : [remoteEnvString])) as string[] | undefined;
+
 	const args: FeaturesTestCommandInput = {
 		baseImage,
 		cliHost,
@@ -108,9 +117,11 @@ async function featuresTest({
 		skipAutogenerated,
 		remoteUser,
 		skipImageMetadata,
+		remoteEnv,
 		disposables
 	};
 
+
 	const exitCode = await doFeaturesTestCommand(args);
 
 	await dispose();
diff --git a/src/spec-node/featuresCLI/testCommandImpl.ts b/src/spec-node/featuresCLI/testCommandImpl.ts
index a3a6b4a5b..d4a6017dc 100644
--- a/src/spec-node/featuresCLI/testCommandImpl.ts
+++ b/src/spec-node/featuresCLI/testCommandImpl.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { CLIHost } from '../../spec-common/cliHost';
 import { launch, ProvisionOptions, createDockerParams } from '../devContainers';
 import { doExec } from '../devContainersSpecCLI';
 import { LaunchResult, staticExecParams, staticProvisionParams, testLibraryScript } from './utils';
-import { DockerResolverParameters } from '../utils';
+import { DockerResolverParameters, envListToObj } from '../utils';
 import { DevContainerConfig } from '../../spec-configuration/configuration';
 import { FeaturesTestCommandInput } from './test';
 import { cpDirectoryLocal, rmLocal } from '../../spec-utils/pfs';
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ async function generateDockerParams(workspaceFolder: string, args: FeaturesTestC
 		persistedFolder: undefined,
 		additionalMounts: [],
 		updateRemoteUserUIDDefault: 'never',
-		remoteEnv: {},
+		remoteEnv: envListToObj(args.remoteEnv),
 		additionalCacheFroms: [],
 		omitLoggerHeader: true,
 		useBuildKit: 'auto',
diff --git a/src/test/container-features/featuresCLICommands.test.ts b/src/test/container-features/featuresCLICommands.test.ts
index 37b829197..7c4c8d727 100644
--- a/src/test/container-features/featuresCLICommands.test.ts
+++ b/src/test/container-features/featuresCLICommands.test.ts
@@ -443,6 +443,27 @@ describe('CLI features subcommands', async function () {
 			const hasExpectedTestReport = result.stdout.includes(expectedTestReport);
 			assert.isTrue(hasExpectedTestReport);
 		});
+
+		it('lifecycle-hooks-remote-env', async function () {
+			const collectionFolder = `${__dirname}/example-v2-features-sets/lifecycle-hooks-remote-env`;
+			let success = false;
+			let result: ExecResult | undefined = undefined;
+			try {
+				result = await shellExec(`${cli} features test --project-folder ${collectionFolder} --remote-env MY_SECRET=you-found-my-secret-string --log-level trace `);
+				success = true;
+
+			} catch (error) {
+				assert.fail('features test sub-command should not throw');
+			}
+
+			assert.isTrue(success);
+			assert.isDefined(result);
+
+			const expectedTestReport = `  ================== TEST REPORT ==================
+✅ Passed:      'puppy'`;
+			const hasExpectedTestReport = result.stdout.includes(expectedTestReport);
+			assert.isTrue(hasExpectedTestReport);
+		});
 	});
 
 	describe('features package', function () {