diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index bd34e98..6e9d74c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@ jobs:
         # And the DataTable models file must land at Components/UI/Models/, not be missing.
         test -f Components/UI/Models/DataTableModels.cs || (echo "shellui add data-table did not install data-table-models"; exit 1)
 
+        # chart-styles ships the CSS for the custom tooltip + ApexCharts chrome.
+        # Without it, hovering a chart shows invisible white-on-white text.
+        test -f wwwroot/css/charts.css || (echo "shellui add chart did not install chart-styles CSS"; exit 1)
+        grep -q '<link href="css/charts.css"' Components/App.razor || (echo "shellui add chart did not link charts.css in App.razor"; exit 1)
+
         dotnet build -c Debug
 
     - name: Upload build artifacts
diff --git a/ShellUI.Tests/ChartStylesTests.cs b/ShellUI.Tests/ChartStylesTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8acb5e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ShellUI.Tests/ChartStylesTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+using ShellUI.CLI.Services;
+using ShellUI.Templates;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace ShellUI.Tests;
+
+public class ChartStylesRegistryTests
+{
+    [Fact]
+    public void ChartStyles_IsRegisteredAndHidden()
+    {
+        var metadata = ComponentRegistry.GetMetadata("chart-styles");
+        Assert.NotNull(metadata);
+        Assert.False(metadata!.IsAvailable, "chart-styles is a CSS asset bundled with chart, not a standalone install target");
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Chart_DependsOnChartStyles()
+    {
+        var metadata = ComponentRegistry.GetMetadata("chart");
+        Assert.NotNull(metadata);
+        Assert.Contains("chart-styles", metadata!.Dependencies);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void ChartStyles_FilePathTargetsWwwroot()
+    {
+        var metadata = ComponentRegistry.GetMetadata("chart-styles");
+        Assert.NotNull(metadata);
+        // The `../../wwwroot/` prefix walks out of Components/UI/ to project root,
+        // matching the shellui-js convention. Without it the file lands inside the
+        // component tree and is never served.
+        Assert.StartsWith("../../wwwroot/", metadata!.FilePath);
+        Assert.EndsWith(".css", metadata.FilePath);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void ChartStyles_ContentCoversCustomTooltipAndApexClasses()
+    {
+        var content = ComponentRegistry.GetComponentContent("chart-styles");
+        Assert.NotNull(content);
+        // Custom tooltip emitted by ChartVariants' Custom HTML — these were invisible
+        // before this branch because the CSS template existed but was never installed.
+        Assert.Contains(".custom-tooltip", content);
+        Assert.Contains(".custom-tooltip-title", content);
+        Assert.Contains(".custom-tooltip-item", content);
+        Assert.Contains(".custom-tooltip-marker", content);
+        Assert.Contains(".custom-tooltip-label", content);
+        Assert.Contains(".custom-tooltip-value", content);
+        // ApexCharts built-in classes also styled so charts without the custom HTML still look right.
+        Assert.Contains(".apexcharts-tooltip", content);
+        Assert.Contains(".apexcharts-legend", content);
+        Assert.Contains(".apexcharts-xaxis-label", content);
+        // Theme-aware: values come from the CSS variables the init script ships.
+        Assert.Contains("var(--popover", content);
+        Assert.Contains("var(--foreground", content);
+        Assert.Contains("var(--border", content);
+    }
+}
+
+public class StylesheetInjectionTests
+{
+    [Fact]
+    public void ResolveHostStylesheetHref_StripsWwwrootPrefix()
+    {
+        Assert.Equal("css/charts.css", ComponentInstaller.ResolveHostStylesheetHref("../../wwwroot/css/charts.css"));
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void ResolveHostStylesheetHref_IgnoresNonWwwrootFilePaths()
+    {
+        Assert.Null(ComponentInstaller.ResolveHostStylesheetHref("Button.razor"));
+        Assert.Null(ComponentInstaller.ResolveHostStylesheetHref("Variants/ButtonVariants.cs"));
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void ResolveHostStylesheetHref_IgnoresNonCssAssets()
+    {
+        // shellui.js also uses ../../wwwroot/ but is a script, not a stylesheet.
+        Assert.Null(ComponentInstaller.ResolveHostStylesheetHref("../../wwwroot/shellui.js"));
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void InjectStylesheetLink_AddsLinkBeforeHeadClose()
+    {
+        const string app = "<html><head><HeadOutlet /></head><body></body></html>";
+
+        var result = InitService.InjectStylesheetLink(app, "css/charts.css");
+
+        Assert.Contains("<link href=\"css/charts.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" />", result);
+        var linkIdx = result.IndexOf("<link href=\"css/charts.css\"");
+        var headCloseIdx = result.IndexOf("</head>");
+        Assert.True(linkIdx > 0 && linkIdx < headCloseIdx, "link tag must sit inside <head>");
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void InjectStylesheetLink_IsIdempotent()
+    {
+        const string app = "<html><head><HeadOutlet /></head><body></body></html>";
+
+        var once = InitService.InjectStylesheetLink(app, "css/charts.css");
+        var twice = InitService.InjectStylesheetLink(once, "css/charts.css");
+
+        Assert.Equal(once, twice);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void InjectStylesheetLink_SupportsMultipleDifferentHrefs()
+    {
+        const string app = "<html><head><HeadOutlet /></head><body></body></html>";
+
+        var result = InitService.InjectStylesheetLink(app, "css/charts.css");
+        result = InitService.InjectStylesheetLink(result, "css/another.css");
+
+        Assert.Contains("css/charts.css", result);
+        Assert.Contains("css/another.css", result);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/ShellUI.CLI/Services/ComponentInstaller.cs b/src/ShellUI.CLI/Services/ComponentInstaller.cs
index 3a799a9..b82ee64 100644
--- a/src/ShellUI.CLI/Services/ComponentInstaller.cs
+++ b/src/ShellUI.CLI/Services/ComponentInstaller.cs
@@ -77,6 +77,20 @@ await AnsiConsole.Status()
         // (so `dotnet add package` doesn't restore between every component).
         await InstallNuGetDependenciesAsync(projectInfo, pendingNuGetDeps);
 
+        // Wire any installed wwwroot/ stylesheets into the host so the user doesn't
+        // have to add <link> tags by hand. Detected via FilePath, which uses the
+        // `../../wwwroot/` traversal trick that asset templates already follow.
+        foreach (var name in installedSet)
+        {
+            var metadata = ComponentRegistry.GetMetadata(name);
+            if (metadata == null) continue;
+            var href = ResolveHostStylesheetHref(metadata.FilePath);
+            if (href != null)
+            {
+                await InitService.InjectStylesheetIntoHostAsync(href);
+            }
+        }
+
         // Update config
         var updatedJson = JsonSerializer.Serialize(config, new JsonSerializerOptions
         {
@@ -327,6 +341,18 @@ private static async Task InstallNuGetDependenciesAsync(ProjectInfo projectInfo,
         }
     }
 
+    // Returns the href that should appear in the host's <link> tag, or null if the
+    // component's FilePath isn't a CSS asset under wwwroot/. Strips the `../../wwwroot/`
+    // prefix that asset templates use to escape Components/UI/.
+    internal static string? ResolveHostStylesheetHref(string filePath)
+    {
+        if (!filePath.EndsWith(".css", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) return null;
+        var normalized = filePath.Replace('\\', '/');
+        const string prefix = "../../wwwroot/";
+        if (!normalized.StartsWith(prefix, StringComparison.Ordinal)) return null;
+        return normalized.Substring(prefix.Length);
+    }
+
     private enum InstallResult
     {
         Success,
diff --git a/src/ShellUI.CLI/Services/InitService.cs b/src/ShellUI.CLI/Services/InitService.cs
index 8cd1906..f6c6d90 100644
--- a/src/ShellUI.CLI/Services/InitService.cs
+++ b/src/ShellUI.CLI/Services/InitService.cs
@@ -540,6 +540,50 @@ internal static string RewriteWasmIndexHtml(string content)
         return content;
     }
 
+    // Idempotent injection of a stylesheet <link> before </head>. Used by post-install
+    // hooks when a component ships a CSS asset (e.g. chart-styles → css/charts.css).
+    internal static string InjectStylesheetLink(string content, string href)
+    {
+        var linkTag = $"<link href=\"{href}\" rel=\"stylesheet\" />";
+        if (content.Contains($"href=\"{href}\""))
+        {
+            return content;
+        }
+        return Regex.Replace(content, @"</head>", $"    {linkTag}\n</head>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
+    }
+
+    // Used by ComponentInstaller after `shellui add` so newly-installed CSS assets
+    // are wired into the host without requiring the user to edit App.razor by hand.
+    internal static async Task InjectStylesheetIntoHostAsync(string href)
+    {
+        var cwd = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
+
+        var appRazor = Path.Combine(cwd, "Components", "App.razor");
+        if (File.Exists(appRazor))
+        {
+            var original = await File.ReadAllTextAsync(appRazor);
+            var patched = InjectStylesheetLink(original, href);
+            if (patched != original)
+            {
+                await File.WriteAllTextAsync(appRazor, patched);
+                AnsiConsole.MarkupLine($"[green]Linked:[/] Components/App.razor → {href}");
+            }
+            return;
+        }
+
+        var indexHtml = Path.Combine(cwd, "wwwroot", "index.html");
+        if (File.Exists(indexHtml))
+        {
+            var original = await File.ReadAllTextAsync(indexHtml);
+            var patched = InjectStylesheetLink(original, href);
+            if (patched != original)
+            {
+                await File.WriteAllTextAsync(indexHtml, patched);
+                AnsiConsole.MarkupLine($"[green]Linked:[/] wwwroot/index.html → {href}");
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     private static void RemoveBootstrapFiles()
     {
         try
diff --git a/src/ShellUI.Templates/ComponentRegistry.cs b/src/ShellUI.Templates/ComponentRegistry.cs
index 56238e0..a1eb868 100644
--- a/src/ShellUI.Templates/ComponentRegistry.cs
+++ b/src/ShellUI.Templates/ComponentRegistry.cs
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ public static class ComponentRegistry
         { "carousel-dots", CarouselDotsTemplate.Metadata },
         { "file-upload", FileUploadTemplate.Metadata },
         { "chart-variants", ChartVariantsTemplate.Metadata },
+        { "chart-styles", ChartStylesTemplate.Metadata },
         { "chart", ChartTemplate.Metadata },
         { "bar-chart", BarChartTemplate.Metadata },
         { "line-chart", LineChartTemplate.Metadata },
@@ -331,6 +332,7 @@ public static class ComponentRegistry
             "carousel-dots" => CarouselDotsTemplate.Content,
             "file-upload" => FileUploadTemplate.Content,
             "chart-variants" => ChartVariantsTemplate.Content,
+            "chart-styles" => ChartStylesTemplate.Content,
             "chart" => ChartTemplate.Content,
             "bar-chart" => BarChartTemplate.Content,
             "line-chart" => LineChartTemplate.Content,
diff --git a/src/ShellUI.Templates/Templates/ChartStylesTemplate.cs b/src/ShellUI.Templates/Templates/ChartStylesTemplate.cs
index 5f054c7..abf387f 100644
--- a/src/ShellUI.Templates/Templates/ChartStylesTemplate.cs
+++ b/src/ShellUI.Templates/Templates/ChartStylesTemplate.cs
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ public class ChartStylesTemplate
         DisplayName = "Chart Styles",
         Description = "CSS styles for ApexCharts integration with ShellUI theme system",
         Category = ComponentCategory.DataDisplay,
-        FilePath = "wwwroot/css/charts.css",
+        // FilePath walks up out of Components/UI/ to project root then into wwwroot/css/,
+        // matching the trick shellui-js uses for its own asset path.
+        FilePath = "../../wwwroot/css/charts.css",
         IsAvailable = false,
         Dependencies = new List<string>(),
         Variants = new List<string>(),
diff --git a/src/ShellUI.Templates/Templates/ChartTemplate.cs b/src/ShellUI.Templates/Templates/ChartTemplate.cs
index 478e9e8..14b57b5 100644
--- a/src/ShellUI.Templates/Templates/ChartTemplate.cs
+++ b/src/ShellUI.Templates/Templates/ChartTemplate.cs
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ public class ChartTemplate
         Description = "Base chart component with ShellUI theming and ApexCharts integration",
         Category = ComponentCategory.DataDisplay,
         FilePath = "Chart.razor",
-        Dependencies = new List<string> { "chart-variants" },
+        Dependencies = new List<string> { "chart-variants", "chart-styles" },
         NuGetDependencies = new List<NuGetDependency>
         {
             new() { PackageId = "Blazor-ApexCharts", Version = "6.0.2" }