diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/lib/index.ts b/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/lib/index.ts
index 32ab6ebcb83b4..cabb094e65c00 100644
--- a/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/lib/index.ts
+++ b/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/lib/index.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ export * from './corking';
 export * from './integ-test';
 export * from './memoize';
 export * from './resource-pool';
+export * from './with-cli-lib';
 export * from './with-sam';
 export * from './shell';
 export * from './with-aws';
diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/lib/with-cli-lib.ts b/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/lib/with-cli-lib.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..03e56c7315508
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/lib/with-cli-lib.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+import * as os from 'os';
+import * as path from 'path';
+import { TestContext } from './integ-test';
+import { RESOURCES_DIR } from './resources';
+import { AwsContext, withAws } from './with-aws';
+import { cloneDirectory, installNpmPackages, TestFixture, DEFAULT_TEST_TIMEOUT_S, CdkCliOptions } from './with-cdk-app';
+import { withTimeout } from './with-timeout';
+
+/**
+ * Higher order function to execute a block with a CliLib Integration CDK app fixture
+ */
+export function withCliLibIntegrationCdkApp<A extends TestContext & AwsContext>(block: (context: CliLibIntegrationTestFixture) => Promise<void>) {
+  return async (context: A) => {
+    const randy = context.randomString;
+    const stackNamePrefix = `cdktest-${randy}`;
+    const integTestDir = path.join(os.tmpdir(), `cdk-integ-${randy}`);
+
+    context.log(` Stack prefix:   ${stackNamePrefix}\n`);
+    context.log(` Test directory: ${integTestDir}\n`);
+    context.log(` Region:         ${context.aws.region}\n`);
+
+    await cloneDirectory(path.join(RESOURCES_DIR, 'cdk-apps', 'simple-app'), integTestDir, context.output);
+    const fixture = new CliLibIntegrationTestFixture(
+      integTestDir,
+      stackNamePrefix,
+      context.output,
+      context.aws,
+      context.randomString);
+
+    let success = true;
+    try {
+      const installationVersion = fixture.packages.requestedFrameworkVersion();
+
+      if (fixture.packages.majorVersion() === '1') {
+        throw new Error('This test suite is only compatible with AWS CDK v2');
+      }
+
+      const alphaInstallationVersion = fixture.packages.requestedAlphaVersion();
+      await installNpmPackages(fixture, {
+        'aws-cdk-lib': installationVersion,
+        '@aws-cdk/cli-lib-alpha': alphaInstallationVersion,
+        '@aws-cdk/aws-lambda-go-alpha': alphaInstallationVersion,
+        '@aws-cdk/aws-lambda-python-alpha': alphaInstallationVersion,
+        'constructs': '^10',
+      });
+
+      await block(fixture);
+    } catch (e: any) {
+      // We survive certain cases involving gopkg.in
+      if (errorCausedByGoPkg(e.message)) {
+        return;
+      }
+      success = false;
+      throw e;
+    } finally {
+      if (process.env.INTEG_NO_CLEAN) {
+        context.log(`Left test directory in '${integTestDir}' ($INTEG_NO_CLEAN)\n`);
+      } else {
+        await fixture.dispose(success);
+      }
+    }
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Return whether or not the error is being caused by gopkg.in being down
+ *
+ * Our Go build depends on https://gopkg.in/, which has errors pretty often
+ * (every couple of days). It is run by a single volunteer.
+ */
+function errorCausedByGoPkg(error: string) {
+  // The error is different depending on what request fails. Messages recognized:
+  ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+  //    go: github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go@v1.28.0 requires
+  //        gopkg.in/yaml.v3@v3.0.0-20200615113413-eeeca48fe776: invalid version: git ls-remote -q origin in /go/pkg/mod/cache/vcs/0901dc1ef67fcce1c9b3ae51078740de4a0e2dc673e720584ac302973af82f36: exit status 128:
+  //        remote: Cannot obtain refs from GitHub: cannot talk to GitHub: Get https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack: net/http: request canceled (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)
+  //        fatal: unable to access 'https://gopkg.in/yaml.v3/': The requested URL returned error: 502
+  ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+  //    go: downloading github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go v1.28.0
+  //    go: github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go@v1.28.0 requires
+  //        gopkg.in/yaml.v3@v3.0.0-20200615113413-eeeca48fe776: unrecognized import path "gopkg.in/yaml.v3": reading https://gopkg.in/yaml.v3?go-get=1: 502 Bad Gateway
+  //        server response: Cannot obtain refs from GitHub: cannot talk to GitHub: Get https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack: net/http: request canceled (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)
+  ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+  //    go: github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go@v1.28.0 requires
+  //        gopkg.in/yaml.v3@v3.0.0-20200615113413-eeeca48fe776: invalid version: git fetch -f origin refs/heads/*:refs/heads/* refs/tags/*:refs/tags/* in /go/pkg/mod/cache/vcs/0901dc1ef67fcce1c9b3ae51078740de4a0e2dc673e720584ac302973af82f36: exit status 128:
+  //        error: RPC failed; HTTP 502 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 502
+  //        fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
+  ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+
+  return (error.includes('gopkg\.in.*invalid version.*exit status 128')
+    || error.match(/unrecognized import path[^\n]gopkg\.in/));
+}
+
+/**
+ * SAM Integration test fixture for CDK - SAM integration test cases
+ */
+export function withCliLibFixture(block: (context: CliLibIntegrationTestFixture) => Promise<void>) {
+  return withAws(withTimeout(DEFAULT_TEST_TIMEOUT_S, withCliLibIntegrationCdkApp(block)));
+}
+
+export class CliLibIntegrationTestFixture extends TestFixture {
+  /**
+   *
+   */
+  public async cdk(args: string[], options: CdkCliOptions = {}) {
+    const cliOpts = {
+      stacks: args[1] ? [args[1]] : undefined,
+      requireApproval: options.neverRequireApproval ? 'never' : undefined,
+    };
+
+    return this.shell(['node', '--input-type=module', `<<__EOS__
+      import { AwsCdkCli } from '@aws-cdk/cli-lib-alpha';
+      const cli = AwsCdkCli.fromCdkAppDirectory();
+
+      await cli.${args[0]}(${JSON.stringify(cliOpts)});
+__EOS__`], {
+      ...options,
+      modEnv: {
+        AWS_REGION: this.aws.region,
+        AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: this.aws.region,
+        STACK_NAME_PREFIX: this.stackNamePrefix,
+        PACKAGE_LAYOUT_VERSION: this.packages.majorVersion(),
+        ...options.modEnv,
+      },
+    });
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/resources/cdk-apps/simple-app/app.js b/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/resources/cdk-apps/simple-app/app.js
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000..9a9ad4425121e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/resources/cdk-apps/simple-app/app.js
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+const cdk = require('aws-cdk-lib/core');
+const sqs = require('aws-cdk-lib/aws-sqs');
+
+const stackPrefix = process.env.STACK_NAME_PREFIX;
+if (!stackPrefix) {
+  throw new Error(`the STACK_NAME_PREFIX environment variable is required`);
+}
+
+class SimpleStack extends cdk.Stack {
+  constructor(scope, id, props) {
+    super(scope, id, props);
+    new sqs.Queue(this, 'queue', {
+      visibilityTimeout: cdk.Duration.seconds(300)
+    });
+  }
+}
+
+const app = new cdk.App();
+new SimpleStack(app, `${stackPrefix}-simple-1`);
+
+app.synth();
diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/resources/cdk-apps/simple-app/cdk.json b/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/resources/cdk-apps/simple-app/cdk.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..44809158dbdac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/resources/cdk-apps/simple-app/cdk.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+  "app": "node app.js",
+  "versionReporting": false,
+  "context": {
+    "aws-cdk:enableDiffNoFail": "true"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/tests/cli-integ-tests/cli-lib.integtest.ts b/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/tests/cli-integ-tests/cli-lib.integtest.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..c88b4d272f28d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/@aws-cdk-testing/cli-integ/tests/cli-integ-tests/cli-lib.integtest.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+import { integTest, withCliLibFixture } from '../../lib';
+
+jest.setTimeout(2 * 60 * 60_000); // Includes the time to acquire locks, worst-case single-threaded runtime
+
+integTest('cdk synth', withCliLibFixture(async (fixture) => {
+  await fixture.cdk(['synth', fixture.fullStackName('simple-1')]);
+  expect(fixture.template('simple-1')).toEqual(expect.objectContaining({
+    Resources: {
+      queue276F7297: {
+        Type: 'AWS::SQS::Queue',
+        Properties: {
+          VisibilityTimeout: 300,
+        },
+        DeletionPolicy: 'Delete',
+        UpdateReplacePolicy: 'Delete',
+        Metadata: {
+          'aws:cdk:path': `${fixture.stackNamePrefix}-simple-1/queue/Resource`,
+        },
+      },
+    },
+  }));
+}));
+
+integTest('cdk ls', withCliLibFixture(async (fixture) => {
+  const listing = await fixture.cdk(['list'], { captureStderr: false });
+  expect(listing).toContain(fixture.fullStackName('simple-1'));
+}));
+
+integTest('deploy', withCliLibFixture(async (fixture) => {
+  try {
+    // deploy the stack
+    const stackArn = await fixture.cdk(['deploy', fixture.fullStackName('simple-1')], {
+      captureStderr: false,
+      neverRequireApproval: true,
+    });
+
+    // verify the number of resources in the stack
+    const shouldHaveStack = await fixture.aws.cloudFormation('describeStackResources', {
+      StackName: stackArn,
+    });
+    expect(shouldHaveStack.StackResources?.length).toEqual(1);
+  } finally {
+    // delete the stack
+    await fixture.cdk(['destroy', fixture.fullStackName('simple-1')]);
+  }
+}));