diff --git a/CONTEXT.md b/CONTEXT.md
index f3ca4ab4..b7b15809 100644
--- a/CONTEXT.md
+++ b/CONTEXT.md
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ Metro integration:
 
 - `withUniwindConfig(config, uniwindConfig)` patches Metro graph support for uncached modules.
 - Metro adds `css` as source extension and removes it from asset extensions.
-- Metro transformer handles the configured CSS entry file specially.
+- Metro transformer handles the configured CSS entry file specially. In development, native entries declare imported local CSS files as Metro dependencies, including nested imports and workspace files resolved outside `node_modules`, so token-only edits trigger recompilation. Dependencies are collected afresh on each compile.
+- Non-entry native CSS is an empty module in plain Metro; Expo keeps its own CSS handling. Web CSS handling is unchanged.
 - Metro transformer worker selection is lazy, cached per Expo/non-Expo config type, and follows Expo transformer paths or Expo-specific config markers.
 - Native platform CSS transforms into a JS module that calls `Uniwind.__reinit(...)` with a fingerprint of the generated styles and themes. During development, the native runtime skips reinitialization when that fingerprint is unchanged.
 - Web platform CSS transforms into CSS plus web runtime setup.
diff --git a/packages/uniwind/src/bundler/adapters/metro/transformer.ts b/packages/uniwind/src/bundler/adapters/metro/transformer.ts
index da6a0352..94c8de5a 100644
--- a/packages/uniwind/src/bundler/adapters/metro/transformer.ts
+++ b/packages/uniwind/src/bundler/adapters/metro/transformer.ts
@@ -63,13 +63,28 @@ export const transform = async (
     }
 
     if (!isCss) {
+        if (!config.uniwind.isExpoProject && options.platform !== Platform.Web && options.type !== 'asset' && filePath.endsWith('.css')) {
+            // Plain Metro parses CSS as JavaScript; these modules only register watched files.
+            return worker.transform(config, projectRoot, `${filePath}.js`, Buffer.from(''), options)
+        }
+
         return worker.transform(config, projectRoot, filePath, data, options)
     }
 
     const bundlerConfig = UniwindBundlerConfig.fromMetroConfig(config.uniwind, options.platform)
     await bundlerConfig.generateArtifacts(cssArtifactPath)
-    const virtualCode = await compileCSS(bundlerConfig)
     const isWeb = bundlerConfig.platform === Platform.Web
+    const importedStylesheets = new Set<string>()
+    const virtualCode = await compileCSS(bundlerConfig, dependency => {
+        if (!isWeb && options.dev && dependency.endsWith('.css') && !dependency.includes(`${path.sep}node_modules${path.sep}`)) {
+            importedStylesheets.add(dependency)
+        }
+    })
+    const importedStylesheetRequires = Array.from(importedStylesheets).sort().map(stylesheet => {
+        const relativePath = path.relative(path.dirname(bundlerConfig.cssPath), stylesheet).split(path.sep).join('/')
+
+        return `require(${JSON.stringify(relativePath.startsWith('../') ? relativePath : `./${relativePath}`)});`
+    })
     const nativeStylesFingerprint = isWeb
         ? undefined
         : createHash('sha256')
@@ -82,6 +97,7 @@ export const transform = async (
         isWeb
             ? virtualCode
             : [
+                ...importedStylesheetRequires,
                 `const { Uniwind } = require('uniwind');`,
                 `Uniwind.__reinit(rt => ${virtualCode}, ${bundlerConfig.stringifiedThemes}, '${nativeStylesFingerprint}');`,
             ].join(''),
diff --git a/packages/uniwind/src/bundler/css-compiler/compileCSS.ts b/packages/uniwind/src/bundler/css-compiler/compileCSS.ts
index bc3e7566..0853a1c6 100644
--- a/packages/uniwind/src/bundler/css-compiler/compileCSS.ts
+++ b/packages/uniwind/src/bundler/css-compiler/compileCSS.ts
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ import { compileNativeCSS } from './compileNativeCSS'
 import { compileTailwind } from './compileTailwind'
 import { compileWebCSS } from './compileWebCSS'
 
-export const compileCSS = async (bundlerConfig: UniwindBundlerConfig) => {
-    const tailwindCSS = await compileTailwind(bundlerConfig)
+export const compileCSS = async (bundlerConfig: UniwindBundlerConfig, onDependency?: (dependency: string) => void) => {
+    const tailwindCSS = await compileTailwind(bundlerConfig, onDependency)
 
     if (bundlerConfig.platform === Platform.Web) {
         return compileWebCSS(bundlerConfig, tailwindCSS)
diff --git a/packages/uniwind/src/bundler/css-compiler/compileTailwind.ts b/packages/uniwind/src/bundler/css-compiler/compileTailwind.ts
index 402c2ea3..2bf9cf6b 100644
--- a/packages/uniwind/src/bundler/css-compiler/compileTailwind.ts
+++ b/packages/uniwind/src/bundler/css-compiler/compileTailwind.ts
@@ -4,11 +4,14 @@ import fs from 'fs'
 import path from 'path'
 import type { UniwindBundlerConfig } from '../config'
 
-export const compileTailwind = async (bundlerConfig: UniwindBundlerConfig) => {
+export const compileTailwind = async (
+    bundlerConfig: UniwindBundlerConfig,
+    onDependency: (dependency: string) => void = () => void 0,
+) => {
     const css = await fs.promises.readFile(bundlerConfig.cssPath, 'utf-8')
     const compiler = await compile(css, {
         base: path.dirname(bundlerConfig.cssPath),
-        onDependency: () => void 0,
+        onDependency,
     })
     const scanner = new Scanner({
         sources: [