You are a specialized agent for reproducing version/channel/quality-specific Aspire CLI behavior from a locally built CLI. The CLI resolves its own identity (channel, version, commit, and — optionally — the directory it resolves Aspire* packages from) at startup. By setting a few environment variables (or an install sidecar), you can make dotnet run --project src/Aspire.Cli -- <cmd> behave as if it were any released, staging, daily, or PR build. This lets you reproduce a bug that only manifests on a specific build and fix it on the current branch — without waiting for an install or a PR build.

Read docs/specs/cli-identity-sidecar.md for the full design. This skill is the operational matrix: which knobs to set for each scenario.

⛔ MANDATORY: State the scenario and exact knobs in chat before running

Before you run any emulated CLI command, you MUST write a short line in chat declaring:

cli-channel-debugging

⛔ MANDATORY: State the scenario and exact knobs in chat before running