diff --git a/api/ocm/extensions/repositories/genericocireg/annotation_test.go b/api/ocm/extensions/repositories/genericocireg/annotation_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fa55bca87f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/ocm/extensions/repositories/genericocireg/annotation_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+package genericocireg_test
+
+import (
+	. "github.com/mandelsoft/goutils/testutils"
+	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
+	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
+	. "ocm.software/ocm/api/helper/builder"
+
+	"ocm.software/ocm/api/oci/extensions/repositories/ctf"
+	metav1 "ocm.software/ocm/api/ocm/compdesc/meta/v1"
+	resourcetypes "ocm.software/ocm/api/ocm/extensions/artifacttypes"
+	"ocm.software/ocm/api/utils/accessio"
+	"ocm.software/ocm/api/utils/accessobj"
+	"ocm.software/ocm/api/utils/mime"
+)
+
+const (
+	ARCH          = "/tmp/ctf"
+	PROVIDER      = "mandelsoft"
+	VERSION       = "v1"
+	TEST_CONTENT1 = "this is a test"
+	TEST_CONTENT2 = "this is another test"
+)
+
+var _ = Describe("Transfer handler", func() {
+	var env *Builder
+
+	BeforeEach(func() {
+		env = NewBuilder()
+
+		env.OCMCommonTransport(ARCH, accessio.FormatDirectory, func() {
+			env.Component(COMPONENT, func() {
+				env.Version(VERSION, func() {
+					env.Provider(PROVIDER)
+					env.Resource("test1", "", resourcetypes.PLAIN_TEXT, metav1.LocalRelation, func() {
+						env.BlobStringData(mime.MIME_TEXT, TEST_CONTENT1)
+					})
+					env.Resource("test2", "", resourcetypes.PLAIN_TEXT, metav1.LocalRelation, func() {
+						env.BlobStringData(mime.MIME_TEXT, TEST_CONTENT1)
+					})
+					env.Resource("test3", "", resourcetypes.PLAIN_TEXT, metav1.LocalRelation, func() {
+						env.BlobStringData(mime.MIME_TEXT, TEST_CONTENT2)
+					})
+					env.Source("test4", "", resourcetypes.PLAIN_TEXT, func() {
+						env.BlobStringData(mime.MIME_TEXT, TEST_CONTENT2)
+					})
+				})
+			})
+		})
+	})
+
+	AfterEach(func() {
+		env.Cleanup()
+	})
+
+	It("check expected oci layer annotation", func() {
+		arch := Must(ctf.Open(env, accessobj.ACC_READONLY, ARCH, 0, env))
+		defer Close(arch)
+		c := Must(arch.LookupNamespace("component-descriptors/" + COMPONENT))
+		defer Close(c)
+		v := Must(c.GetArtifact(VERSION))
+		defer Close(v)
+		Expect(v.GetDescriptor()).To(YAMLEqual(`
+  mediaType: application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json
+  schemaVersion: 2
+  config:
+    digest: sha256:edf034a303e8cc7e5a05c522bb5fc74a09a00ed3aca390ffafba1020c97470cc
+    mediaType: application/vnd.ocm.software.component.config.v1+json
+    size: 201
+  layers:
+  - digest: sha256:43d7113c5e6dd84c617477c5713368cffb86b059808df176bbf3e02849ea6b3e
+    mediaType: application/vnd.ocm.software.component-descriptor.v2+yaml+tar
+    size: 3584
+  - annotations:
+      ocm-artifact: '[{"kind":"resource","identity":{"name":"test1"}},{"kind":"resource","identity":{"name":"test2"}}]'
+    digest: sha256:2e99758548972a8e8822ad47fa1017ff72f06f3ff6a016851f45c398732bc50c
+    mediaType: text/plain
+    size: 14
+  - annotations:
+      ocm-artifact: '[{"kind":"resource","identity":{"name":"test3"}},{"kind":"source","identity":{"name":"test4"}}]'
+    digest: sha256:f69bff44070ba35d7169196ba0095425979d96346a31486b507b4a3f77bd356d
+    mediaType: text/plain
+    size: 20
+`))
+	})
+})
diff --git a/api/ocm/extensions/repositories/genericocireg/componentversion.go b/api/ocm/extensions/repositories/genericocireg/componentversion.go
index 18317783ea..55e6225ef5 100644
--- a/api/ocm/extensions/repositories/genericocireg/componentversion.go
+++ b/api/ocm/extensions/repositories/genericocireg/componentversion.go
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"ocm.software/ocm/api/oci/artdesc"
 	"ocm.software/ocm/api/oci/extensions/repositories/artifactset"
 	"ocm.software/ocm/api/ocm/compdesc"
+	metav1 "ocm.software/ocm/api/ocm/compdesc/meta/v1"
 	"ocm.software/ocm/api/ocm/cpi"
 	"ocm.software/ocm/api/ocm/cpi/accspeccpi"
 	"ocm.software/ocm/api/ocm/cpi/repocpi"
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ import (
 	"ocm.software/ocm/api/utils/errkind"
 	common "ocm.software/ocm/api/utils/misc"
 	"ocm.software/ocm/api/utils/refmgmt"
+	"ocm.software/ocm/api/utils/runtime"
 )
 
 // newComponentVersionAccess creates a component access for the artifact access, if this fails the artifact acess is closed.
@@ -147,6 +149,20 @@ func (c *ComponentVersionContainer) SetDescriptor(cd *compdesc.ComponentDescript
 	return c.Update()
 }
 
+type LayerAnnotations []ArtifactInfo
+
+type ArtifactInfo struct {
+	// Kind specifies whether the artifact is a source, resource or a label
+	Kind     string          `json:"kind"`
+	Identity metav1.Identity `json:"identity"`
+}
+
+const (
+	ARTKIND_RESOURCE = "resource"
+	ARTKIND_SOURCE   = "source"
+	OCM_ARTIFACT     = "ocm-artifact"
+)
+
 func (c *ComponentVersionContainer) Update() error {
 	logger := Logger(c.GetContext()).WithValues("cv", common.NewNameVersion(c.comp.name, c.version))
 	err := c.Check()
@@ -155,6 +171,8 @@ func (c *ComponentVersionContainer) Update() error {
 	}
 
 	if c.state.HasChanged() {
+		layerAnnotations := map[int]LayerAnnotations{}
+
 		logger.Debug("update component version")
 		desc := c.GetDescriptor()
 		layers := set.Set[int]{}
@@ -167,6 +185,10 @@ func (c *ComponentVersionContainer) Update() error {
 				return fmt.Errorf("failed resource layer evaluation: %w", err)
 			}
 			if l > 0 {
+				layerAnnotations[l] = append(layerAnnotations[l], ArtifactInfo{
+					Kind:     ARTKIND_RESOURCE,
+					Identity: r.GetIdentity(desc.Resources),
+				})
 				layers.Delete(l)
 			}
 			if s != r.Access {
@@ -179,6 +201,10 @@ func (c *ComponentVersionContainer) Update() error {
 				return fmt.Errorf("failed source layer evaluation: %w", err)
 			}
 			if l > 0 {
+				layerAnnotations[l] = append(layerAnnotations[l], ArtifactInfo{
+					Kind:     ARTKIND_SOURCE,
+					Identity: r.GetIdentity(desc.Sources),
+				})
 				layers.Delete(l)
 			}
 			if s != r.Access {
@@ -186,6 +212,17 @@ func (c *ComponentVersionContainer) Update() error {
 			}
 		}
 		m := c.manifest.GetDescriptor()
+
+		for layer, info := range layerAnnotations {
+			data, err := runtime.DefaultJSONEncoding.Marshal(info)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			if m.Layers[layer].Annotations == nil {
+				m.Layers[layer].Annotations = map[string]string{}
+			}
+			m.Layers[layer].Annotations[OCM_ARTIFACT] = string(data)
+		}
 		i := len(m.Layers) - 1
 
 		for i > 0 {
diff --git a/api/ocm/resolver_test.go b/api/ocm/resolver_test.go
index ca4f7bd3d4..321bd952b3 100644
--- a/api/ocm/resolver_test.go
+++ b/api/ocm/resolver_test.go
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ import (
 	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
 	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
 	. "ocm.software/ocm/api/helper/builder"
-	"ocm.software/ocm/api/ocm/internal"
 
 	"ocm.software/ocm/api/ocm"
 	"ocm.software/ocm/api/ocm/extensions/repositories/ctf"
 	"ocm.software/ocm/api/ocm/extensions/repositories/ocireg"
+	"ocm.software/ocm/api/ocm/internal"
 	"ocm.software/ocm/api/utils/accessio"
 	"ocm.software/ocm/api/utils/accessobj"
 )
diff --git a/cmds/ocm/commands/ocmcmds/common/handlers/vershdlr/typehandler_test.go b/cmds/ocm/commands/ocmcmds/common/handlers/vershdlr/typehandler_test.go
index 1000de89ed..3d1e5b8367 100644
--- a/cmds/ocm/commands/ocmcmds/common/handlers/vershdlr/typehandler_test.go
+++ b/cmds/ocm/commands/ocmcmds/common/handlers/vershdlr/typehandler_test.go
@@ -15,13 +15,14 @@ import (
 	"ocm.software/ocm/api/utils/accessobj"
 )
 
-const ARCH = "ctf"
-const COMP = "acme.org/comp1"
-const VERS1 = "1.0.0"
-const VERS2 = "2.0.0"
+const (
+	ARCH  = "ctf"
+	COMP  = "acme.org/comp1"
+	VERS1 = "1.0.0"
+	VERS2 = "2.0.0"
+)
 
 var _ = Describe("version handler", func() {
-
 	var env *TestEnv
 
 	BeforeEach(func() {
diff --git a/cmds/ocm/commands/ocmcmds/common/inputs/types/npm/input_test.go b/cmds/ocm/commands/ocmcmds/common/inputs/types/npm/input_test.go
index f7c1600096..5be41f82c9 100644
--- a/cmds/ocm/commands/ocmcmds/common/inputs/types/npm/input_test.go
+++ b/cmds/ocm/commands/ocmcmds/common/inputs/types/npm/input_test.go
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ package npm_test
 import (
 	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
 	. "ocm.software/ocm/cmds/ocm/commands/ocmcmds/common/inputs/testutils"
-	"ocm.software/ocm/cmds/ocm/commands/ocmcmds/common/inputs/types/npm"
 
 	"ocm.software/ocm/cmds/ocm/commands/ocmcmds/common/inputs"
 	"ocm.software/ocm/cmds/ocm/commands/ocmcmds/common/inputs/options"
+	"ocm.software/ocm/cmds/ocm/commands/ocmcmds/common/inputs/types/npm"
 )
 
 var _ = Describe("Input Type", func() {