Gradle Task to check if configured dependencies are available

Question

I have a project that builds into an SDK library. Before building a release I would like to verify that all configured dependencies are available using a gradle task. Somehow current build operations pass, because it manages to resolve a different version of a misconfigured dependency as it gets used by some other library. However, this is not a guaranteed situation and therefor I'd like a task that verifies if all configured dependencies are actually available or not and otherwise, fail.

I started a Task like this:

abstract class CheckDependenciesTask : DefaultTask() {
    @TaskAction
    fun checkDependencies() {
        project.configurations.forEach { config ->
            if (config.isCanBeResolved) {
                println("Resolving ${config.name}")
                config.resolve()
            } else {
                println("Not resolving ${config.name}")
            }
        }
    }
}

But that really aims to resolve configs, rather than dependencies. Somehow I'm not able to figure out how to check if dependencies are available. When running lintAnalyzeDebug --info it neatly prints that they are missing, so there must be some command that checks this, but then just fails instead of try to resolve it.

Any idea or pointers on how to achieve this would be appreciated. Thank you.