diff --git a/src/__tests__/routes/BundleDetail.test.tsx b/src/__tests__/routes/BundleDetail.test.tsx
index 762c205..c115e63 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/routes/BundleDetail.test.tsx
+++ b/src/__tests__/routes/BundleDetail.test.tsx
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import { BundleDetailRoute } from '@/routes/BundleDetail';
 import { loadFixtureRegistry } from '../fixtures';
 
 const useBundleManifestMock = vi.hoisted(() => vi.fn());
+const useBundleReadmeMock = vi.hoisted(() => vi.fn());
 const useRegistryMock = vi.hoisted(() => vi.fn());
 const useDownloadBundleMock = vi.hoisted(() =>
   vi.fn(() => ({ download: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined), isDownloading: () => false })),
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ const useManifestGraphMock = vi.hoisted(() =>
 );
 
 vi.mock('@/hooks/useBundleManifest', () => ({ useBundleManifest: useBundleManifestMock }));
+vi.mock('@/hooks/useBundleReadme', () => ({ useBundleReadme: useBundleReadmeMock }));
 vi.mock('@/hooks/useRegistry', () => ({ useRegistry: useRegistryMock }));
 vi.mock('@/hooks/useDownloadBundle', () => ({ useDownloadBundle: useDownloadBundleMock }));
 vi.mock('@/hooks/useManifestGraph', () => ({
@@ -38,6 +40,7 @@ vi.mock('@/hooks/useManifestGraph', () => ({
 }));
 
 type BundleQueryShape = Partial<UseQueryResult<Bundle, Error>>;
+type ReadmeQueryShape = Partial<UseQueryResult<null | string, Error>>;
 type RegistryQueryShape = Partial<UseQueryResult<Registry, Error>>;
 
 function renderAt(path: string) {
@@ -68,6 +71,17 @@ function setBundle(state: BundleQueryShape) {
   });
 }
 
+function setReadme(state: ReadmeQueryShape) {
+  useBundleReadmeMock.mockReturnValue({
+    data: undefined,
+    error: null,
+    isError: false,
+    isLoading: false,
+    isSuccess: false,
+    ...state,
+  });
+}
+
 function setRegistry(state: RegistryQueryShape) {
   useRegistryMock.mockReturnValue({
     data: undefined,
@@ -96,6 +110,7 @@ const FULL_BUNDLE: Bundle = {
 describe('BundleDetailRoute', () => {
   afterEach(() => {
     useBundleManifestMock.mockReset();
+    useBundleReadmeMock.mockReset();
     useRegistryMock.mockReset();
   });
 
@@ -108,6 +123,7 @@ describe('BundleDetailRoute', () => {
 
   it('renders every field of a fully populated bundle manifest', () => {
     setBundle({ data: FULL_BUNDLE, isSuccess: true });
+    setReadme({ data: '# Feature Workflow\n\nUsage notes.', isSuccess: true });
     setRegistry({ data: loadFixtureRegistry(), isSuccess: true });
 
     renderAt('/bundles/feature-workflow');
@@ -132,11 +148,36 @@ describe('BundleDetailRoute', () => {
 
     const setup = screen.getByTestId('bundle-detail-setup');
     expect(within(setup).getByRole('heading', { level: 2, name: 'Setup' })).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    const readme = screen.getByTestId('bundle-detail-readme');
+    expect(within(readme).getByRole('heading', { level: 1, name: 'Feature Workflow' })).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(within(readme).getByText('Usage notes.')).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('shows a missing-README message when the bundle has none', () => {
+    setBundle({ data: FULL_BUNDLE, isSuccess: true });
+    setReadme({ data: null, isSuccess: true });
+    setRegistry({ data: loadFixtureRegistry(), isSuccess: true });
+
+    renderAt('/bundles/feature-workflow');
+
+    expect(screen.getByTestId('bundle-detail-readme-missing')).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('shows a loading skeleton while the README is inflight', () => {
+    setBundle({ data: FULL_BUNDLE, isSuccess: true });
+    setReadme({ isLoading: true });
+    setRegistry({ data: loadFixtureRegistry(), isSuccess: true });
+
+    renderAt('/bundles/feature-workflow');
+
+    expect(screen.getByRole('status', { name: /loading readme/i })).toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 
   it('lists bundle.json plus each member file from the API listing under the bundle group', () => {
     setBundle({ data: FULL_BUNDLE, isSuccess: true });
     setRegistry({ data: loadFixtureRegistry(), isSuccess: true });
+    setReadme({ data: null, isSuccess: true });
     const validateKey = 'agent:agentic-toolkit:validate:1.1.0';
     useManifestGraphMock.mockReturnValue({
       error: null,
@@ -179,6 +220,7 @@ describe('BundleDetailRoute', () => {
     const download = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
     useDownloadBundleMock.mockReturnValueOnce({ download, isDownloading: () => false });
     setBundle({ data: FULL_BUNDLE, isSuccess: true });
+    setReadme({ data: null, isSuccess: true });
     setRegistry({ data: loadFixtureRegistry(), isSuccess: true });
 
     renderAt('/bundles/feature-workflow');
@@ -231,6 +273,7 @@ describe('BundleDetailRoute', () => {
       version: '2.0.0',
     });
     setBundle({ data: orgBundle, isSuccess: true });
+    setReadme({ data: null, isSuccess: true });
     setRegistry({ data: registry, isSuccess: true });
 
     renderAt('/bundles/cupay/qa-bundle');
@@ -265,6 +308,7 @@ describe('BundleDetailRoute', () => {
       version: '2.0.0',
     });
     setBundle({ data: orgBundle, isSuccess: true });
+    setReadme({ data: null, isSuccess: true });
     setRegistry({ data: registry, isSuccess: true });
 
     renderAt('/bundles/cupay/qa-bundle');
@@ -299,6 +343,7 @@ describe('BundleDetailRoute', () => {
       version: '2.0.0',
     });
     setBundle({ data: orgBundle, isSuccess: true });
+    setReadme({ data: null, isSuccess: true });
     setRegistry({ data: registry, isSuccess: true });
 
     renderAt('/bundles/cupay/qa-bundle');
diff --git a/src/components/ReadmeView.tsx b/src/components/ReadmeView.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6ba8c60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/ReadmeView.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import { LoadingIndicator } from '@/components/LoadingIndicator';
+import { MarkdownRenderer } from '@/components/MarkdownRenderer';
+
+/**
+ * Renders a fetched README as markdown, with loading/missing states.
+ * Shared between the asset and bundle detail pages so both surfaces stay
+ * in sync — a bundle's README used to never render at all (only its
+ * `setupInstructions` did) even though every published bundle has one.
+ */
+export function ReadmeView({
+  isError,
+  isLoading,
+  missingTestId,
+  readme,
+}: {
+  isError: boolean;
+  isLoading: boolean;
+  missingTestId?: string;
+  readme: null | string;
+}) {
+  if (isLoading) {
+    return <LoadingIndicator label='Loading README…' variant='skeleton' />;
+  }
+  if (isError || !readme) {
+    return (
+      <p className='text-sm text-muted-foreground' data-testid={missingTestId}>
+        No README is available.
+      </p>
+    );
+  }
+  return <MarkdownRenderer content={readme} />;
+}
diff --git a/src/hooks/index.ts b/src/hooks/index.ts
index eddd67f..6bb1091 100644
--- a/src/hooks/index.ts
+++ b/src/hooks/index.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ export { useAssetFiles } from './useAssetFiles';
 export { useAssetManifest } from './useAssetManifest';
 export { useAssetReadme } from './useAssetReadme';
 export { useBundleManifest } from './useBundleManifest';
+export { useBundleReadme } from './useBundleReadme';
 export { useDownloadAsset } from './useDownloadAsset';
 export { useDownloadBundle } from './useDownloadBundle';
 export { useRegistry } from './useRegistry';
diff --git a/src/hooks/useBundleReadme.ts b/src/hooks/useBundleReadme.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5f9cd51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/hooks/useBundleReadme.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import { useQuery, type UseQueryResult } from '@tanstack/react-query';
+
+import { useSession } from '@/hooks/useSession';
+import { queryKeys } from '@/lib/query-keys';
+import { type BundleManifestRef, fetchBundleReadme } from '@/lib/registry-client';
+
+/**
+ * Fetch and cache a bundle's README.md. Requires an authenticated session.
+ * Resolves to `null` when the README is missing (HTTP 404) — mirrors
+ * {@link useAssetReadme}.
+ */
+export function useBundleReadme(ref: Partial<BundleManifestRef>): UseQueryResult<null | string, Error> {
+  const { api } = useSession();
+  const enabled = Boolean(api && ref.name && ref.version);
+
+  return useQuery({
+    enabled,
+    queryFn: ({ signal }) => {
+      if (!api) throw new Error('useBundleReadme: no authenticated API client available');
+      return fetchBundleReadme(ref as BundleManifestRef, { client: api, signal });
+    },
+    queryKey: queryKeys.bundleReadme({
+      name: ref.name ?? '',
+      org: ref.org,
+      version: ref.version ?? '',
+    }),
+  });
+}
diff --git a/src/lib/query-keys.ts b/src/lib/query-keys.ts
index ad085d0..af0a1a6 100644
--- a/src/lib/query-keys.ts
+++ b/src/lib/query-keys.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ export const queryKeys = {
     ['registry', 'asset-readme', ref.type, ref.org ?? '', ref.name, ref.version] as const,
   bundleManifest: (ref: { name: string; org?: string; version?: string }) =>
     ['registry', 'bundle-manifest', ref.org ?? '', ref.name, ref.version ?? ''] as const,
+  bundleReadme: (ref: { name: string; org?: string; version: string }) =>
+    ['registry', 'bundle-readme', ref.org ?? '', ref.name, ref.version] as const,
   registry: () => ['registry', 'index'] as const,
   session: {
     membership: (org: string, username: string) => ['session', 'membership', org, username] as const,
diff --git a/src/lib/registry-client.ts b/src/lib/registry-client.ts
index 05f3fb2..064d519 100644
--- a/src/lib/registry-client.ts
+++ b/src/lib/registry-client.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import type { ZodType } from 'zod';
 
 import { z } from 'zod';
 
-import { getAssetManifest, getAssetReadme, getBundleManifest, getRegistry, listAssetFiles } from './api';
+import { getAssetManifest, getAssetReadme, getBundleManifest, getBundleReadme, getRegistry, listAssetFiles } from './api';
 import { type ApiClient, ApiRequestError, type ApiResult, unwrap } from './api-client';
 import { RegistryFetchError, RegistryNotFoundError, RegistryParseError } from './registry-errors';
 import { AssetType, type Bundle, BundleSchema, type Manifest, ManifestSchema } from './schemas';
@@ -114,6 +114,25 @@ export async function fetchBundleManifest(ref: BundleManifestRef, options: Regis
   return parseResponse(unwrapRegistry(result, label), BundleSchema, label);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Fetch a bundle's `README.md` as raw markdown. Returns null when the README
+ * is absent (HTTP 404) so callers can degrade gracefully — mirrors
+ * {@link fetchAssetReadme}.
+ */
+export async function fetchBundleReadme(ref: BundleManifestRef, options: RegistryClientOptions): Promise<null | string> {
+  const label = `bundle ${ref.org ? `@${ref.org}/` : ''}${ref.name}@${ref.version} README`;
+  const result = await getBundleReadme({
+    client: options.client,
+    parseAs: 'text',
+    path: { name: ref.name, version: ref.version },
+    query: orgQuery(ref.org),
+    signal: options.signal,
+  });
+  if (result.response?.status === 404) return null;
+  const data = unwrapRegistry(result, label);
+  return typeof data === 'string' ? data : String(data);
+}
+
 /** Fetch and validate the registry index (`registry.json`) from the ATK API. */
 export async function fetchRegistry(options: RegistryClientOptions): Promise<Registry> {
   const label = 'the registry index';
diff --git a/src/routes/AssetDetail.tsx b/src/routes/AssetDetail.tsx
index 33bce6b..5233216 100644
--- a/src/routes/AssetDetail.tsx
+++ b/src/routes/AssetDetail.tsx
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ import { DownloadMenu } from '@/components/DownloadMenu';
 import { EmptyState } from '@/components/EmptyState';
 import { type FileGroup, FilesCard } from '@/components/FilesCard';
 import { LoadingIndicator } from '@/components/LoadingIndicator';
-import { MarkdownRenderer } from '@/components/MarkdownRenderer';
 import { PageHeader } from '@/components/PageHeader';
+import { ReadmeView } from '@/components/ReadmeView';
 import { Badge } from '@/components/ui/badge';
 import { Card, CardContent, CardHeader, CardTitle } from '@/components/ui/card';
 import { useAssetFiles } from '@/hooks/useAssetFiles';
@@ -232,7 +232,12 @@ export function AssetDetailRoute() {
 
       <section aria-label='Asset README' data-testid='asset-detail-readme'>
         <h2 className='mb-3 text-lg font-semibold tracking-tight text-foreground'>README</h2>
-        <ReadmeView isError={readmeQuery.isError} isLoading={readmeQuery.isLoading} readme={readmeQuery.data ?? null} />
+        <ReadmeView
+          isError={readmeQuery.isError}
+          isLoading={readmeQuery.isLoading}
+          missingTestId='asset-detail-readme-missing'
+          readme={readmeQuery.data ?? null}
+        />
       </section>
     </div>
   );
@@ -318,20 +323,6 @@ function MetadataRow({ children, label }: { children: React.ReactNode; label: st
   );
 }
 
-function ReadmeView({ isError, isLoading, readme }: { isError: boolean; isLoading: boolean; readme: null | string }) {
-  if (isLoading) {
-    return <LoadingIndicator label='Loading README…' variant='skeleton' />;
-  }
-  if (isError || !readme) {
-    return (
-      <p className='text-sm text-muted-foreground' data-testid='asset-detail-readme-missing'>
-        No README is available for this asset.
-      </p>
-    );
-  }
-  return <MarkdownRenderer content={readme} />;
-}
-
 function SecurityBlockView({ security }: { security: NonNullable<Manifest['security']> }) {
   return (
     <div className='flex flex-col gap-2' data-testid='security-block'>
diff --git a/src/routes/BundleDetail.tsx b/src/routes/BundleDetail.tsx
index 2af2dd1..03f3fe8 100644
--- a/src/routes/BundleDetail.tsx
+++ b/src/routes/BundleDetail.tsx
@@ -11,10 +11,12 @@ import { type FileGroup, FilesCard } from '@/components/FilesCard';
 import { LoadingIndicator } from '@/components/LoadingIndicator';
 import { MarkdownRenderer } from '@/components/MarkdownRenderer';
 import { PageHeader } from '@/components/PageHeader';
+import { ReadmeView } from '@/components/ReadmeView';
 import { Badge } from '@/components/ui/badge';
 import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
 import { Card, CardContent, CardHeader, CardTitle } from '@/components/ui/card';
 import { useBundleManifest } from '@/hooks/useBundleManifest';
+import { useBundleReadme } from '@/hooks/useBundleReadme';
 import { useDownloadBundle } from '@/hooks/useDownloadBundle';
 import { refKey as manifestRefKey, useManifestGraph } from '@/hooks/useManifestGraph';
 import { useRegistry } from '@/hooks/useRegistry';
@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ export function BundleDetailRoute() {
     [registryQuery.data, bundleName, bundleOrg],
   );
   const manifestQuery = useBundleManifest({ name: bundleName, org: bundleOrg, version: bundleVersion });
+  const readmeQuery = useBundleReadme({ name: bundleName, org: bundleOrg, version: bundleVersion });
   const { download, isDownloading } = useDownloadBundle();
   const displayName = bundleOrg && bundleName ? `@${bundleOrg}/${bundleName}` : bundleName;
 
@@ -249,6 +252,16 @@ export function BundleDetailRoute() {
           <MarkdownRenderer content={manifest.setupInstructions} />
         </section>
       ) : null}
+
+      <section aria-label='Bundle README' data-testid='bundle-detail-readme'>
+        <h2 className='mb-3 text-lg font-semibold tracking-tight text-foreground'>README</h2>
+        <ReadmeView
+          isError={readmeQuery.isError}
+          isLoading={readmeQuery.isLoading}
+          missingTestId='bundle-detail-readme-missing'
+          readme={readmeQuery.data ?? null}
+        />
+      </section>
     </div>
   );
 }