diff --git a/packages/core/src/sheet.js b/packages/core/src/sheet.js
index b6ffbba0..27542e72 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/sheet.js
+++ b/packages/core/src/sheet.js
@@ -25,6 +25,15 @@ const isSheetAccessible = (/** @type {CSSStyleSheet} */ sheet) => {
 	}
 }
 
+/** Whether `root` supports constructable stylesheets (`new CSSStyleSheet()` + `adoptedStyleSheets`). */
+const supportsConstructedStylesheets = (/** @type {DocumentOrShadowRoot} */ root) => {
+	try {
+		return Array.isArray(Object(root).adoptedStyleSheets) && typeof CSSStyleSheet !== 'undefined' && 'replaceSync' in CSSStyleSheet.prototype
+	} catch (e) {
+		return false
+	}
+}
+
 export const createSheet = (/** @type {DocumentOrShadowRoot} */ root) => {
 	/** @type {SheetGroup} Object hosting the hydrated stylesheet. */
 	let groupSheet
@@ -71,8 +80,8 @@ export const createSheet = (/** @type {DocumentOrShadowRoot} */ root) => {
 			}
 		}
 
-		/** @type {StyleSheetList} */
-		const sheets = Object(root).styleSheets || []
+		/** @type {(CSSStyleSheet)[]} Stylesheets from `<style>`/`<link>` elements, plus any adopted stylesheets. */
+		const sheets = [...(Object(root).styleSheets || []), ...(Object(root).adoptedStyleSheets || [])]
 
 		// iterate all stylesheets until a hydratable stylesheet is found
 		for (const sheet of sheets) {
@@ -139,6 +148,15 @@ export const createSheet = (/** @type {DocumentOrShadowRoot} */ root) => {
 				if (!root) {
 					return createCSSMediaRule('', 'text/css')
 				}
+
+				// constructable stylesheets aren't gated by CSP style-src, since no <style>
+				// element is ever inserted into the DOM — prefer them when available.
+				if (supportsConstructedStylesheets(root)) {
+					const adoptedSheet = new CSSStyleSheet()
+					root.adoptedStyleSheets = [...root.adoptedStyleSheets, adoptedSheet]
+					return adoptedSheet
+				}
+
 				const styleEl = document.createElement('style')
 				const nonce = getNonce()
 				if (nonce) {
diff --git a/packages/core/tests/internal/fakeDom.js b/packages/core/tests/internal/fakeDom.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3e5c9a78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/core/tests/internal/fakeDom.js
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+/**
+ * Minimal in-memory CSSOM/DOM mocks that exercise sheet.js's browser-dependent branches
+ * (constructable stylesheets, and the classic <style>-element fallback) without a real
+ * browser — jsdom doesn't implement constructable stylesheets, so it can't be used here.
+ */
+
+class FakeCSSMediaGroupRule {
+	constructor() {
+		this.type = 4
+		this.cssRules = []
+	}
+	get cssText() {
+		return `@media{${this.cssRules.map((rule) => rule.cssText).join('')}}`
+	}
+	insertRule(cssText, index) {
+		this.cssRules.splice(index, 0, { type: 1, cssText })
+	}
+	deleteRule(index) {
+		this.cssRules.splice(index, 1)
+	}
+}
+
+/**
+ * Reformats a `--sxs{--sxs:N}` marker into the spaced-out shape a real browser's CSSOM
+ * serializer returns for a simple style rule (`selector { prop: value; }`), since sheet.js's
+ * hydration scan parses that exact shape back out via `cssText.slice(14, -3)`.
+ */
+const formatMarkerRuleCssText = (/** @type {string} */ insertedCssText) => {
+	const index = insertedCssText.slice('--sxs{--sxs:'.length, -1)
+	return `--sxs { --sxs: ${index}; }`
+}
+
+export class FakeCSSStyleSheet {
+	constructor() {
+		this.cssRules = []
+	}
+	insertRule(cssText, index) {
+		const rule = cssText === '@media{}' ? new FakeCSSMediaGroupRule() : { type: 1, cssText: formatMarkerRuleCssText(cssText) }
+		this.cssRules.splice(index, 0, rule)
+		return index
+	}
+	deleteRule(index) {
+		this.cssRules.splice(index, 1)
+	}
+}
+// only needs to exist for sheet.js's `'replaceSync' in CSSStyleSheet.prototype` feature-detection
+FakeCSSStyleSheet.prototype.replaceSync = function replaceSync() {}
+
+/** A fake `DocumentOrShadowRoot`: enough surface for sheet.js — `styleSheets`, `adoptedStyleSheets`, `head.appendChild`. */
+export const createFakeRoot = () => {
+	const root = {
+		styleSheets: [],
+		adoptedStyleSheets: [],
+		head: {
+			appendChild(styleEl) {
+				styleEl.sheet = new FakeCSSStyleSheet()
+				root.styleSheets.push(styleEl.sheet)
+				return styleEl
+			},
+		},
+	}
+	return root
+}
+
+/**
+ * Installs the globals sheet.js's code reads directly: `CSSStyleSheet` (feature-detection +
+ * construction), and `document`/`window` for the `<style>`-element fallback path
+ * (`document.createElement`, `getNonce`). The test runner executes every test file in one
+ * shared Node process, so these must be restored afterwards or they'd leak into unrelated
+ * test files — e.g. making `createStitches()` elsewhere pick up a fake `root` by default.
+ * Returns a restore function; call it once all assertions for this file have run.
+ */
+export const installFakeGlobals = () => {
+	const previous = {
+		CSSStyleSheet: globalThis.CSSStyleSheet,
+		window: globalThis.window,
+		document: globalThis.document,
+	}
+
+	globalThis.CSSStyleSheet = FakeCSSStyleSheet
+	globalThis.window = {}
+	globalThis.document = {
+		createElement: (tagName) => ({
+			tagName,
+			attributes: {},
+			setAttribute(name, value) {
+				this.attributes[name] = value
+			},
+		}),
+	}
+
+	return () => {
+		globalThis.CSSStyleSheet = previous.CSSStyleSheet
+		globalThis.window = previous.window
+		globalThis.document = previous.document
+	}
+}
diff --git a/packages/core/tests/sheet-adopted-stylesheets.js b/packages/core/tests/sheet-adopted-stylesheets.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..403558ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/core/tests/sheet-adopted-stylesheets.js
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+import { createSheet, names } from '../src/sheet.js'
+import { createFakeRoot, FakeCSSStyleSheet, installFakeGlobals } from './internal/fakeDom.js'
+
+// sheet.js reads `CSSStyleSheet`/`document`/`window` as ambient globals, so they're faked here.
+// restoreGlobals() runs synchronously right after describe() below — every test() body in this
+// file is itself synchronous, so by the time describe()'s own internal `await call()` yields,
+// all assertions below have already executed and it's safe to restore the real globals before
+// the test runner moves on to the next file (it shares one Node process across all test files).
+const restoreGlobals = installFakeGlobals()
+
+describe('sheet.js — constructable stylesheets', () => {
+	test('uses adoptedStyleSheets when supported, and never appends a <style> element', () => {
+		const root = createFakeRoot()
+
+		const groupSheet = createSheet(root)
+
+		expect(root.adoptedStyleSheets.length).toBe(1)
+		expect(groupSheet.sheet).toBe(root.adoptedStyleSheets[0])
+		expect(root.adoptedStyleSheets[0]).toBeInstanceOf(FakeCSSStyleSheet)
+		expect(root.styleSheets.length).toBe(0)
+	})
+
+	test('applies and serializes rules through the adopted stylesheet', () => {
+		const root = createFakeRoot()
+		const groupSheet = createSheet(root)
+
+		groupSheet.rules.styled.apply('.a{color:red}')
+
+		expect(groupSheet.toString()).toBe('--sxs{--sxs:2}@media{.a{color:red}}')
+	})
+
+	test('reset() rehydrates from the adopted stylesheet instead of re-adopting or duplicating groups', () => {
+		const root = createFakeRoot()
+		const groupSheet = createSheet(root)
+
+		groupSheet.rules.styled.apply('.a{color:red}')
+		groupSheet.reset()
+
+		// must not have adopted a second stylesheet
+		expect(root.adoptedStyleSheets.length).toBe(1)
+
+		// the rule applied before reset() must still be there
+		expect(groupSheet.toString()).toBe('--sxs{--sxs:2}@media{.a{color:red}}')
+
+		// applying after reset() must append to the rehydrated group, not a duplicate one
+		groupSheet.rules.styled.apply('.b{color:blue}')
+		expect(groupSheet.toString()).toBe('--sxs{--sxs:2}@media{.a{color:red}.b{color:blue}}')
+
+		// every group's marker/media pair must appear exactly once, not duplicated by the rescan
+		const markerRuleCount = root.adoptedStyleSheets[0].cssRules.filter((rule) => rule.cssText.startsWith('--sxs')).length
+		expect(markerRuleCount).toBe(names.length)
+
+		groupSheet.reset()
+		expect(root.adoptedStyleSheets.length).toBe(1)
+	})
+
+	test('falls back to a <style> element when constructable stylesheets are unsupported', () => {
+		const originalReplaceSync = FakeCSSStyleSheet.prototype.replaceSync
+		delete FakeCSSStyleSheet.prototype.replaceSync
+
+		try {
+			const root = createFakeRoot()
+			const groupSheet = createSheet(root)
+
+			expect(root.adoptedStyleSheets.length).toBe(0)
+			expect(root.styleSheets.length).toBe(1)
+
+			groupSheet.rules.styled.apply('.c{color:green}')
+			expect(groupSheet.toString()).toBe('--sxs{--sxs:2}@media{.c{color:green}}')
+		} finally {
+			FakeCSSStyleSheet.prototype.replaceSync = originalReplaceSync
+		}
+	})
+})
+
+restoreGlobals()