diff --git a/internal/bazel/bazel.go b/internal/bazel/bazel.go
index 51dd07b..fe8637e 100644
--- a/internal/bazel/bazel.go
+++ b/internal/bazel/bazel.go
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ var ErrDigestMismatch = errors.New("body does not match its digest")
 type store interface {
 	Get(ctx context.Context, a ids.ActionID) (cache.Result, error)
 	Has(ctx context.Context, a ids.ActionID) bool
+	HasRemote(ctx context.Context, a ids.ActionID) bool
 	PutStaged(ctx context.Context, a ids.ActionID, o ids.OutputID, stagedPath string, size int64) (string, error)
 }
 
@@ -187,6 +188,11 @@ func (s *Store) Has(ctx context.Context, k Kind, d Digest) bool {
 	return s.cache.Has(ctx, k.actionID(d))
 }
 
+// HasRemote reports whether a digest is available from the shared cache tier.
+func (s *Store) HasRemote(ctx context.Context, k Kind, d Digest) bool {
+	return s.cache.HasRemote(ctx, k.actionID(d))
+}
+
 // Put stores a body under a digest, streaming it and hashing it on the way
 // past. It never holds the body in memory, and publishes by hardlink rather
 // than by copy, so the bytes cross the disk once however large they are.
diff --git a/internal/bazel/http_test.go b/internal/bazel/http_test.go
index 1866445..4d6ce11 100644
--- a/internal/bazel/http_test.go
+++ b/internal/bazel/http_test.go
@@ -420,6 +420,9 @@ func (failingStore) Get(context.Context, ids.ActionID) (cache.Result, error) {
 // Has always reports absent, so an upload is always attempted.
 func (failingStore) Has(context.Context, ids.ActionID) bool { return false }
 
+// HasRemote always reports absent because the test store has no shared tier.
+func (failingStore) HasRemote(context.Context, ids.ActionID) bool { return false }
+
 // PutStaged always fails.
 func (failingStore) PutStaged(context.Context, ids.ActionID, ids.OutputID, string, int64) (string, error) {
 	return "", errors.New("no space left on device")
diff --git a/internal/cache/cache.go b/internal/cache/cache.go
index 81adcd2..4178336 100644
--- a/internal/cache/cache.go
+++ b/internal/cache/cache.go
@@ -246,6 +246,25 @@ func (c *Cache) getRemote(ctx context.Context, a ids.ActionID) (Result, error) {
 	return Result{OutputID: outputID, Size: size, DiskPath: path, Time: time.Unix(0, created)}, nil
 }
 
+// HasRemote reports whether an action and its body are both available from the shared tier.
+//
+// It opens the remote body and closes it without reading, which obtains the
+// storage service's presence verdict without faulting bytes into the local tier.
+func (c *Cache) HasRemote(ctx context.Context, a ids.ActionID) bool {
+	if !c.cfg.RemoteEnabled() {
+		return false
+	}
+	outputID, _, err := c.rem.GetAction(ctx, a)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	body, _, err := c.rem.GetObject(ctx, outputID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	return body.Close() == nil
+}
+
 // Has reports whether an action already resolves to a readable body,
 // refreshing its last-used time if it does.
 //
diff --git a/internal/reapi/rrcc.go b/internal/reapi/rrcc.go
index 020044d..ff9b4e8 100644
--- a/internal/reapi/rrcc.go
+++ b/internal/reapi/rrcc.go
@@ -51,15 +51,15 @@ func (m *rrccMetrics) Snapshot() RRCCMetricsSnapshot {
 func (s *Server) RRCCMetrics() RRCCMetricsSnapshot { return s.rrccMetrics.Snapshot() }
 
 // validateRRCCLocalClosure accepts ordinary action results and synthetic
-// repository-cache results whose complete closure is local. A missing local body
-// is a cache miss: returning the ActionResult would make Bazel fail later while
-// lazily reading the injected repository.
+// repository-cache results whose complete closure is available locally or from
+// the shared tier. A missing body is a cache miss: returning the ActionResult
+// would make Bazel fail later while lazily reading the injected repository.
 func (s *Server) validateRRCCLocalClosure(ctx context.Context, result *repb.ActionResult) bool {
 	marker, tree, ok := rrccOutputs(result)
 	if !ok {
 		return true
 	}
-	if !s.hasLocalCAS(ctx, marker) {
+	if !s.hasCAS(ctx, marker) {
 		s.rrccMetrics.markerMissing.Add(1)
 		s.logf("bazel grpc: rrcc local closure missing marker %s", marker.GetHash())
 		return false
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ func (s *Server) validateRRCCLocalClosure(ctx context.Context, result *repb.Acti
 		return false
 	}
 	file, size, ok := s.store.OpenLocal(ctx, bazel.KindCAS, treeDigest)
+	if !ok && s.store.HasRemote(ctx, bazel.KindCAS, treeDigest) {
+		file, size, ok = s.store.Open(ctx, bazel.KindCAS, treeDigest)
+	}
 	if !ok {
 		s.rrccMetrics.treeMissing.Add(1)
 		s.logf("bazel grpc: rrcc local closure missing tree %s", tree.GetHash())
@@ -96,7 +99,7 @@ func (s *Server) validateRRCCLocalClosure(ctx context.Context, result *repb.Acti
 	}
 	for _, directory := range append([]*repb.Directory{contents.GetRoot()}, contents.GetChildren()...) {
 		for _, node := range directory.GetFiles() {
-			if !s.hasLocalCAS(ctx, node.GetDigest()) {
+			if !s.hasCAS(ctx, node.GetDigest()) {
 				s.rrccMetrics.fileMissing.Add(1)
 				s.logf("bazel grpc: rrcc local closure missing file %s", node.GetDigest().GetHash())
 				return false
@@ -107,10 +110,10 @@ func (s *Server) validateRRCCLocalClosure(ctx context.Context, result *repb.Acti
 	return true
 }
 
-// hasLocalCAS reports whether a valid digest is currently present in the local cache.
-func (s *Server) hasLocalCAS(ctx context.Context, d *repb.Digest) bool {
+// hasCAS reports whether a valid digest is available locally or from the shared tier.
+func (s *Server) hasCAS(ctx context.Context, d *repb.Digest) bool {
 	parsed, err := digest(d)
-	return err == nil && s.store.Has(ctx, bazel.KindCAS, parsed)
+	return err == nil && (s.store.Has(ctx, bazel.KindCAS, parsed) || s.store.HasRemote(ctx, bazel.KindCAS, parsed))
 }
 
 // rrccOutputs recognizes Bazel's synthetic remote repository-contents result shape.