Requesting support for

I see, thanks a lot for the explanation.

adding the ability to specify a custom certificate path

It's already supported by Core Tunnel, you can set CertificateFile directive:

appending the custom command prior to the diagnostic command

custom-jumphost-cli is a CLI tool, and Core Tunnel has no idea about its internal. Even Core Tunnel could run custom-jumphost-cli installCert before actual connecting, but it still has no means to interactive with the cli command.