diff --git a/packages/lang-core/package.json b/packages/lang-core/package.json
index ee2c87ed0..3e96ed168 100644
--- a/packages/lang-core/package.json
+++ b/packages/lang-core/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@openuidev/lang-core",
-  "version": "0.2.5",
+  "version": "0.2.6",
   "description": "Framework-agnostic core for OpenUI Lang: parser, prompt generation, validation, and type definitions",
   "license": "MIT",
   "type": "module",
diff --git a/packages/openui-cli/package.json b/packages/openui-cli/package.json
index 892181b08..f4adb8666 100644
--- a/packages/openui-cli/package.json
+++ b/packages/openui-cli/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@openuidev/cli",
-  "version": "0.0.7",
+  "version": "0.0.8",
   "description": "CLI for OpenUI — scaffold generative UI chat apps and generate LLM system prompts from component libraries",
   "bin": {
     "openui": "dist/index.js"
diff --git a/packages/react-ui/cp-css.js b/packages/react-ui/cp-css.js
index dc8f9b78a..bcf0fb785 100644
--- a/packages/react-ui/cp-css.js
+++ b/packages/react-ui/cp-css.js
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ function ensureDirectoryExists(dirPath) {
 // Wrap a CSS file's contents in @layer openui { ... } if not already wrapped.
 // Idempotency check protects watch-mode and back-to-back builds.
 function wrapInLayer(content) {
+  // Sass emits a UTF-8 BOM for files with non-ASCII output. At byte 0 the
+  // decoder strips it, but wrapping would push it inside the layer block,
+  // where U+FEFF parses as an identifier and kills the first rule
+  // (e.g. the :root theme tokens). Strip it before wrapping.
+  content = content.replace(/^\uFEFF/, "");
   if (content.trim() === "") return content;
   if (/^\s*@layer\s+openui\b/.test(content)) return content;
   return `@layer openui{${content}}`;
diff --git a/packages/react-ui/package.json b/packages/react-ui/package.json
index 9c3889a47..2b6c96253 100644
--- a/packages/react-ui/package.json
+++ b/packages/react-ui/package.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "type": "module",
   "name": "@openuidev/react-ui",
   "license": "MIT",
-  "version": "0.11.8",
+  "version": "0.12.0",
   "description": "Component library for Generative UI SDK",
   "main": "dist/index.cjs",
   "module": "dist/index.mjs",