diff --git a/spacy/tests/test_cli.py b/spacy/tests/test_cli.py
index 592999680..3efd5b76c 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/test_cli.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/test_cli.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from spacy.cli._util import parse_config_overrides, string_to_list
 from spacy.cli._util import substitute_project_variables
 from spacy.cli._util import validate_project_commands
 from spacy.cli._util import upload_file, download_file
-from spacy.cli.configure import configure_resume_cli
+from spacy.cli.configure import configure_resume_cli, use_transformer
 from spacy.cli.debug_data import _compile_gold, _get_labels_from_model
 from spacy.cli.debug_data import _get_labels_from_spancat
 from spacy.cli.debug_data import _get_distribution, _get_kl_divergence
@@ -1202,3 +1202,16 @@ def test_configure_resume(tmp_path):
 
     for comp, val in conf["components"].items():
         assert "source" in val, f"Non-sourced component: {comp}"
+
+
+def test_use_transformer(tmp_path):
+    nlp = spacy.blank("en")
+    nlp.add_pipe("tok2vec")
+    base_path = tmp_path / "tok2vec_sample"
+    nlp.to_disk(base_path)
+
+    out_path = tmp_path / "converted_to_trf"
+    conf = use_transformer(base_path, out_path)
+    assert out_path.exists(), "No model saved"
+
+    assert "transformer" in conf["components"], "No transformer component"