diff --git a/cmd/ctr/images.go b/cmd/ctr/images.go
index 6b035ea5d..6be8b9ccb 100644
--- a/cmd/ctr/images.go
+++ b/cmd/ctr/images.go
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ var imageCommand = cli.Command{
 	Usage: "manage images",
 	Subcommands: cli.Commands{
 		imagesListCommand,
+		imagesCheckCommand,
 		imageRemoveCommand,
 		imagesSetLabelsCommand,
 		imagesImportCommand,
@@ -176,6 +177,90 @@ var imagesSetLabelsCommand = cli.Command{
 	},
 }
 
+var imagesCheckCommand = cli.Command{
+	Name:        "check",
+	Usage:       "Check that an image has all content available locally.",
+	ArgsUsage:   "[flags] <ref> [<ref>, ...]",
+	Description: "Check that an image has all content available locally.",
+	Flags:       []cli.Flag{},
+	Action: func(clicontext *cli.Context) error {
+		var (
+			exitErr error
+		)
+		ctx, cancel := appContext(clicontext)
+		defer cancel()
+
+		client, err := newClient(clicontext)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+
+		imageStore := client.ImageService()
+		contentStore := client.ContentStore()
+
+		tw := tabwriter.NewWriter(os.Stdout, 1, 8, 1, ' ', 0)
+		fmt.Fprintln(tw, "REF\tTYPE\tDIGEST\tSTATUS\tSIZE\t")
+
+		args := []string(clicontext.Args())
+		imageList, err := imageStore.List(ctx, args...)
+		if err != nil {
+			return errors.Wrap(err, "failed listing images")
+		}
+
+		for _, image := range imageList {
+			var (
+				status       string = "complete"
+				size         string
+				requiredSize int64
+				presentSize  int64
+			)
+
+			available, required, present, missing, err := images.Check(ctx, contentStore, image.Target, platforms.Default())
+			if err != nil {
+				if exitErr == nil {
+					exitErr = errors.Wrapf(err, "unable to check %v", image.Name)
+				}
+				log.G(ctx).WithError(err).Errorf("unable to check %v", image.Name)
+				status = "error"
+			}
+
+			if status != "error" {
+				for _, d := range required {
+					requiredSize += d.Size
+				}
+
+				for _, d := range present {
+					presentSize += d.Size
+				}
+
+				if len(missing) > 0 {
+					status = "incomplete"
+				}
+
+				if available {
+					status += fmt.Sprintf(" (%v/%v)", len(present), len(required))
+					size = fmt.Sprintf("%v/%v", progress.Bytes(presentSize), progress.Bytes(requiredSize))
+				} else {
+					status = fmt.Sprintf("unavailable (%v/?)", len(present))
+					size = fmt.Sprintf("%v/?", progress.Bytes(presentSize))
+				}
+			} else {
+				size = "-"
+			}
+
+			fmt.Fprintf(tw, "%v\t%v\t%v\t%v\t%v\t\n",
+				image.Name,
+				image.Target.MediaType,
+				image.Target.Digest,
+				status,
+				size)
+		}
+		tw.Flush()
+
+		return exitErr
+	},
+}
+
 var imageRemoveCommand = cli.Command{
 	Name:        "remove",
 	Aliases:     []string{"rm"},
diff --git a/images/image.go b/images/image.go
index 855be1a0d..8179dc22c 100644
--- a/images/image.go
+++ b/images/image.go
@@ -87,7 +87,12 @@ func (image *Image) Size(ctx context.Context, provider content.Provider, platfor
 	}), ChildrenHandler(provider, platform)), image.Target)
 }
 
-// Manifest returns the manifest for an image.
+// Manifest resolves a manifest from the image for the given platform.
+//
+// TODO(stevvooe): This violates the current platform agnostic approach to this
+// package by returning a specific manifest type. We'll need to refactor this
+// to return a manifest descriptor or decide that we want to bring the API in
+// this direction because this abstraction is not needed.`
 func Manifest(ctx context.Context, provider content.Provider, image ocispec.Descriptor, platform string) (ocispec.Manifest, error) {
 	var (
 		matcher platforms.Matcher
@@ -165,7 +170,7 @@ func Manifest(ctx context.Context, provider content.Provider, image ocispec.Desc
 			return descs, nil
 
 		}
-		return nil, errors.New("could not resolve manifest")
+		return nil, errors.Wrap(errdefs.ErrNotFound, "could not resolve manifest")
 	}), image); err != nil {
 		return ocispec.Manifest{}, err
 	}
@@ -218,6 +223,49 @@ func Platforms(ctx context.Context, provider content.Provider, image ocispec.Des
 	}), ChildrenHandler(provider, "")), image)
 }
 
+// Check returns nil if the all components of an image are available in the
+// provider for the specified platform.
+//
+// If available is true, the caller can assume that required represents the
+// complete set of content required for the image.
+//
+// missing will have the components that are part of required but not avaiiable
+// in the provider.
+//
+// If there is a problem resolving content, an error will be returned.
+func Check(ctx context.Context, provider content.Provider, image ocispec.Descriptor, platform string) (available bool, required, present, missing []ocispec.Descriptor, err error) {
+	mfst, err := Manifest(ctx, provider, image, platform)
+	if err != nil {
+		if errdefs.IsNotFound(err) {
+			return false, []ocispec.Descriptor{image}, nil, []ocispec.Descriptor{image}, nil
+		}
+
+		return false, nil, nil, nil, errors.Wrap(err, "image check failed")
+	}
+
+	// TODO(stevvooe): It is possible that referenced conponents could have
+	// children, but this is rare. For now, we ignore this and only verify
+	// that manfiest components are present.
+	required = append([]ocispec.Descriptor{mfst.Config}, mfst.Layers...)
+
+	for _, desc := range required {
+		ra, err := provider.ReaderAt(ctx, desc.Digest)
+		if err != nil {
+			if errdefs.IsNotFound(err) {
+				missing = append(missing, desc)
+				continue
+			} else {
+				return false, nil, nil, nil, err
+			}
+		}
+		ra.Close()
+		present = append(present, desc)
+
+	}
+
+	return true, required, present, missing, nil
+}
+
 // Children returns the immediate children of content described by the descriptor.
 func Children(ctx context.Context, provider content.Provider, desc ocispec.Descriptor, platform string) ([]ocispec.Descriptor, error) {
 	var descs []ocispec.Descriptor