diff --git a/task/prefetch-dependencies-oci-ta/0.1/prefetch-dependencies-oci-ta.yaml b/task/prefetch-dependencies-oci-ta/0.1/prefetch-dependencies-oci-ta.yaml
index 69eed7fdb1..bfbc121b91 100644
--- a/task/prefetch-dependencies-oci-ta/0.1/prefetch-dependencies-oci-ta.yaml
+++ b/task/prefetch-dependencies-oci-ta/0.1/prefetch-dependencies-oci-ta.yaml
@@ -57,6 +57,22 @@ spec:
       - mountPath: /var/workdir
         name: workdir
   steps:
+  - name: skip-ta
+    image: registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal:9.3-1612@sha256:119ac25920c8bb50c8b5fd75dcbca369bf7d1f702b82f3d39663307890f0bf26
+    env:
+    - name: INPUT
+      value: $(params.input)
+    - name: SOURCE_ARTIFACT
+      value: $(params.SOURCE_ARTIFACT)
+    script: |
+      if [ -z "${INPUT}" ]; then
+        mkdir -p /var/workdir/source
+        mkdir -p /var/workdir/cachi2
+        echo "true" > /var/workdir/source/.skip-trusted-artifacts
+        echo "true" > /var/workdir/cachi2/.skip-trusted-artifacts
+        echo -n "${SOURCE_ARTIFACT}" > $(results.SOURCE_ARTIFACT.path)
+        echo -n "" > $(results.CACHI2_ARTIFACT.path)
+      fi
   - image: quay.io/redhat-appstudio/build-trusted-artifacts:latest@sha256:4e39fb97f4444c2946944482df47b39c5bbc195c54c6560b0647635f553ab23d
     name: use-trusted-artifact
     args: