diff --git a/src/Support/Stylesheets.php b/src/Support/Stylesheets.php
index a9c174eb..5f0f1cac 100644
--- a/src/Support/Stylesheets.php
+++ b/src/Support/Stylesheets.php
@@ -92,6 +92,29 @@ final class Stylesheets
         self::$cache = [];
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Every file `$files` reaches, transitively, through the same `@import` resolution `bundle()`
+     * walks — real paths, `$files` themselves included — without concatenating anything.
+     * `DesignGuard::missingStylesheets()` (plan step 41) asks this: whether an application's CSS
+     * entry's import graph already reaches a given package stylesheet, which needs the file
+     * identities `bundle()` resolves, not the CSS it produces. Shares `bundle()`'s cache (and so
+     * its freshness rule) under the same key, `$base` fixed to `null`, since only `bundle()` ever
+     * populates it.
+     *
+     * @param  list<string>  $files
+     * @return list<string>
+     */
+    public static function resolvedFiles(array $files): array
+    {
+        if ($files === []) {
+            return [];
+        }
+
+        self::bundle($files);
+
+        return array_keys(self::$cache[serialize([$files, null])]['files']);
+    }
+
     /**
      * @param  array<string, int|false>  $files  every file a cached bundle inlined, with its mtime then
      */
diff --git a/tests/Feature/StylesheetsBundleTest.php b/tests/Feature/StylesheetsBundleTest.php
index e768298e..bccb7e73 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/StylesheetsBundleTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/StylesheetsBundleTest.php
@@ -82,6 +82,17 @@ it('bundles all.css with every import resolved, foundation first, every componen
         ->and($foundationPosition)->toBeLessThan($earliestOtherPosition);
 });
 
+it('resolves the files an entry imports, transitively, without bundling any content', function () {
+    $files = Stylesheets::resolvedFiles([stylesheetsBundlePath('components/split-button.css')]);
+
+    expect($files)->toContain(
+        stylesheetsBundlePath('components/split-button.css'),
+        stylesheetsBundlePath('components/button.css'),
+        stylesheetsBundlePath('components/menu.css'),
+        stylesheetsBundlePath('components/icon.css'),
+    );
+});
+
 it('keeps a file two others import once, at its first position', function () {
     $dir = sys_get_temp_dir().'/livewire-material-bundle-'.Str::random(8);
     File::makeDirectory($dir);