diff --git a/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_smoke_nixl.sh b/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_smoke_nixl.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2990360
--- /dev/null
+++ b/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_smoke_nixl.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Smoke test for Nixl-based PD-sep migration (NVLink intra-node via UCX).
+#
+# Drops 2 vLLM kv_both NixlConnector instances on GPU 0,1 and runs
+# smoke_test_migrate_cache.py against them with the kv_transfer_params
+# format Nixl expects (only do_remote_decode on src; proxy must forward
+# kv_transfer_params from src's response to dst).
+#
+# Since smoke_test_migrate_cache.py is currently hard-coded for Mooncake
+# (transfer_id + remote_bootstrap_addr), we use a tiny Python in-line
+# variant here that does the Nixl response-forward handshake directly.
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+MODEL="${MODEL:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct}"
+VENV="$PROJ_DIR/.venv/bin"
+LOGS_DIR="${LOGS_DIR:-$PROJ_DIR/outputs/smoke_nixl_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)}"
+mkdir -p "$LOGS_DIR"
+
+cleanup() {
+    echo "[smoke-nixl] cleaning up vLLM..."
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 2
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+cleanup
+
+echo "[smoke-nixl] starting 2 vLLM kv_both NixlConnector on GPU 0,1"
+for i in 0 1; do
+    port=$((8000 + i))
+    nixl_port=$((5600 + i))
+    master=$((29500 + i))
+    PYTHONHASHSEED=42 \
+    VLLM_NIXL_SIDE_CHANNEL_PORT=$nixl_port \
+    CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$i \
+    MASTER_PORT=$master \
+    nohup "$VENV/vllm" serve "$MODEL" \
+        --host 0.0.0.0 --port "$port" \
+        --tensor-parallel-size 1 \
+        --trust-remote-code --enable-prefix-caching \
+        --dtype auto --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
+        --max-model-len 200000 \
+        --kv-transfer-config '{"kv_connector":"NixlConnector","kv_role":"kv_both"}' \
+        --enable-prompt-tokens-details \
+        > "$LOGS_DIR/vllm_inst_${i}_gpu${i}.log" 2>&1 &
+    disown
+    sleep 2
+done
+
+echo "[smoke-nixl] waiting for health on 8000 and 8001 ..."
+for port in 8000 8001; do
+    tries=0
+    while ! curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:$port/health" >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+        tries=$((tries+1))
+        if [ $tries -gt 240 ]; then
+            echo "[smoke-nixl] FATAL: $port not ready"; exit 1
+        fi
+        sleep 2
+    done
+    echo "  port=$port ready"
+done
+
+echo "[smoke-nixl] running smoke_nixl_migrate.py"
+"$VENV/python" "$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_nixl_migrate.py" \
+    --src-port 8000 --dst-port 8001 \
+    ${EXTRA_SMOKE_ARGS:-} \
+    2>&1 | tee "$LOGS_DIR/smoke_output.log"
+
+ec=${PIPESTATUS[0]}
+echo "[smoke-nixl] test exit=$ec, logs at $LOGS_DIR"
+exit $ec
diff --git a/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_smoke_partial.sh b/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_smoke_partial.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3428483
--- /dev/null
+++ b/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_smoke_partial.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Smoke test for Mechanism B (partial KV transfer):
+# Start 3 vLLM kv_both Mooncake instances on GPU 0,1,2:
+#   - inst_0 = src (port 8000, bp 8998)
+#   - inst_1 = dst_warm (port 8001, bp 8999) — will be pre-warmed
+#   - inst_2 = dst_cold (port 8002, bp 9000) — control, no cache
+#
+# Then run smoke_partial_transfer.py which migrates the same prompt
+# to both warm and cold dst, comparing transfer cost.
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+MODEL="${MODEL:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct}"
+VENV="$PROJ_DIR/.venv/bin"
+LOGS_DIR="${LOGS_DIR:-$PROJ_DIR/outputs/smoke_partial_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)}"
+mkdir -p "$LOGS_DIR"
+
+cleanup() {
+    echo "[smoke-partial] cleaning up vLLM..."
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 2
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+cleanup
+
+echo "[smoke-partial] starting 3 vLLM kv_both Mooncake on GPU 0,1,2"
+for i in 0 1 2; do
+    port=$((8000 + i))
+    bp=$((8998 + i))
+    master=$((29500 + i))
+    PYTHONHASHSEED=42 \
+    VLLM_MOONCAKE_BOOTSTRAP_PORT=$bp \
+    CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$i \
+    MASTER_PORT=$master \
+    nohup "$VENV/vllm" serve "$MODEL" \
+        --host 0.0.0.0 --port "$port" \
+        --tensor-parallel-size 1 \
+        --trust-remote-code --enable-prefix-caching \
+        --dtype auto --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
+        --max-model-len 200000 \
+        --kv-transfer-config '{"kv_connector":"MooncakeConnector","kv_role":"kv_both"}' \
+        --enable-prompt-tokens-details \
+        > "$LOGS_DIR/vllm_inst_${i}_gpu${i}.log" 2>&1 &
+    disown
+    sleep 2
+done
+
+echo "[smoke-partial] waiting for health ..."
+for port in 8000 8001 8002; do
+    tries=0
+    while ! curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:$port/health" >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+        tries=$((tries+1))
+        if [ $tries -gt 240 ]; then echo "FATAL: $port"; exit 1; fi
+        sleep 2
+    done
+    echo "  port=$port ready"
+done
+
+echo "[smoke-partial] running smoke_partial_transfer.py"
+"$VENV/python" "$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_partial_transfer.py" \
+    ${EXTRA_SMOKE_ARGS:-} \
+    2>&1 | tee "$LOGS_DIR/smoke_output.log"
+
+ec=${PIPESTATUS[0]}
+echo "[smoke-partial] exit=$ec, logs at $LOGS_DIR"
+exit $ec
diff --git a/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_smoke_sweep.sh b/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_smoke_sweep.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..79f2557
--- /dev/null
+++ b/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_smoke_sweep.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Single vLLM warmup, multiple smoke-test iterations under varying load.
+#
+# Each iteration uses a distinct --prefix-base to avoid prefix-cache pollution
+# from prior iterations. We sweep noise levels 0, 8, 32, 64 to see at which
+# point the migration cache becomes invisible to the follow-up.
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+MODEL="${MODEL:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct}"
+VENV="$PROJ_DIR/.venv/bin"
+LOGS_DIR="${LOGS_DIR:-$PROJ_DIR/outputs/smoke_sweep_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)}"
+mkdir -p "$LOGS_DIR"
+
+cleanup() {
+    echo "[sweep] cleaning up vLLM..."
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 2
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+cleanup
+
+echo "[sweep] starting 2 vLLM kv_both on GPU 0,1"
+for i in 0 1; do
+    port=$((8000 + i))
+    bp=$((8998 + i))
+    master=$((29500 + i))
+    PYTHONHASHSEED=42 \
+    VLLM_MOONCAKE_BOOTSTRAP_PORT=$bp \
+    CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$i \
+    MASTER_PORT=$master \
+    nohup "$VENV/vllm" serve "$MODEL" \
+        --host 0.0.0.0 --port "$port" \
+        --tensor-parallel-size 1 \
+        --trust-remote-code --enable-prefix-caching \
+        --dtype auto --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
+        --max-model-len 200000 \
+        --kv-transfer-config '{"kv_connector":"MooncakeConnector","kv_role":"kv_both"}' \
+        --enable-prompt-tokens-details \
+        > "$LOGS_DIR/vllm_inst_${i}_gpu${i}.log" 2>&1 &
+    disown
+    sleep 2
+done
+
+echo "[sweep] waiting for health ..."
+for port in 8000 8001; do
+    tries=0
+    while ! curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:$port/health" >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+        tries=$((tries+1))
+        if [ $tries -gt 180 ]; then echo "[sweep] FATAL: $port not ready"; exit 1; fi
+        sleep 2
+    done
+    echo "  port=$port ready"
+done
+
+base=100
+for noise in 0 8 32 64 128; do
+    echo ""
+    echo "============================================"
+    echo "[sweep] iteration noise=$noise prefix_base=$base"
+    echo "============================================"
+    "$VENV/python" "$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_test_migrate_cache.py" \
+        --src-port 8000 --dst-port 8001 \
+        --src-bp 8998 --dst-bp 8999 \
+        --noise-reqs "$noise" \
+        --prefix-base "$base" \
+        2>&1 | tee "$LOGS_DIR/iter_noise${noise}.log" | tail -25
+    base=$((base + 100000))
+done
+
+echo ""
+echo "[sweep] all iterations done; logs in $LOGS_DIR"
diff --git a/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_smoke_test.sh b/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_smoke_test.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a15379f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/run_smoke_test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Fast iteration: start 2 vLLM kv_both, run smoke_test_migrate_cache, tear down.
+#
+# Usage: bash run_smoke_test.sh [WAIT_BETWEEN_S]
+#
+# Iteration overhead: ~3-4 min warmup + a few sec for the test. Cleanly
+# tears everything down on exit so you can re-run repeatedly.
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+PROJ_DIR="${PROJ_DIR:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/agentic-kv}"
+MODEL="${MODEL:-/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct}"
+VENV="$PROJ_DIR/.venv/bin"
+LOGS_DIR="${LOGS_DIR:-$PROJ_DIR/outputs/smoke_test_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)}"
+mkdir -p "$LOGS_DIR"
+
+# MOONCAKE_PROTOCOL controls Mooncake's C++ TransferEngine transport.
+# Options exposed: rdma (default), tcp, nvlink_intra (NVLink intra-node).
+PROTO="${MOONCAKE_PROTOCOL:-rdma}"
+echo "[smoke] using Mooncake protocol: $PROTO"
+
+cleanup() {
+    echo "[smoke] cleaning up vLLM..."
+    pkill -9 -f "vllm serve" 2>/dev/null || true
+    pkill -9 -f "EngineCore" 2>/dev/null || true
+    sleep 2
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+cleanup
+
+echo "[smoke] starting 2 vLLM kv_both on GPU 0,1"
+for i in 0 1; do
+    port=$((8000 + i))
+    bp=$((8998 + i))
+    master=$((29500 + i))
+    PYTHONHASHSEED=42 \
+    VLLM_MOONCAKE_BOOTSTRAP_PORT=$bp \
+    CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$i \
+    MASTER_PORT=$master \
+    nohup "$VENV/vllm" serve "$MODEL" \
+        --host 0.0.0.0 --port "$port" \
+        --tensor-parallel-size 1 \
+        --trust-remote-code --enable-prefix-caching \
+        --dtype auto --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
+        --max-model-len 200000 \
+        --kv-transfer-config "{\"kv_connector\":\"MooncakeConnector\",\"kv_role\":\"kv_both\",\"kv_connector_extra_config\":{\"mooncake_protocol\":\"$PROTO\"}}" \
+        --enable-prompt-tokens-details \
+        > "$LOGS_DIR/vllm_inst_${i}_gpu${i}.log" 2>&1 &
+    disown
+    sleep 2
+done
+
+echo "[smoke] waiting for health on 8000 and 8001 ..."
+for port in 8000 8001; do
+    tries=0
+    while ! curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:$port/health" >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+        tries=$((tries+1))
+        if [ $tries -gt 180 ]; then
+            echo "[smoke] FATAL: $port not ready"; exit 1
+        fi
+        sleep 2
+    done
+    echo "  port=$port ready"
+done
+
+echo "[smoke] running migration smoke test"
+"$VENV/python" "$PROJ_DIR/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_test_migrate_cache.py" \
+    --src-port 8000 --dst-port 8001 \
+    --src-bp 8998 --dst-bp 8999 \
+    ${EXTRA_SMOKE_ARGS:-} \
+    2>&1 | tee "$LOGS_DIR/smoke_output.log"
+
+ec=${PIPESTATUS[0]}
+echo "[smoke] test exit=$ec, logs at $LOGS_DIR"
+exit $ec
diff --git a/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_nixl_migrate.py b/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_nixl_migrate.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2576bf1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_nixl_migrate.py
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Smoke test for Nixl PD-sep migration.
+
+Nixl handshake (vs Mooncake's pre-baked engine_id):
+  1. POST to src with kv_transfer_params={"do_remote_decode": True},
+     max_tokens=1, stream=False.
+  2. src returns kv_transfer_params in the response body containing
+     remote_block_ids, remote_engine_id, remote_host, remote_port,
+     remote_request_id, tp_size.
+  3. POST to dst with the SAME kv_transfer_params dict.
+  4. dst pulls KV via UCX (NVLink intra-node) and decodes.
+
+Verifies migration correctness + measures KV transfer latency on Nixl
+so we can ablate vs Mooncake/RDMA on the same workload.
+"""
+import asyncio, argparse, json, sys, uuid, time
+import httpx
+import random as _r
+
+MODEL = "/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct"
+
+
+async def send(client, port, prompt, max_tokens, kv_xfer, stream):
+    payload = {
+        "model": MODEL,
+        "prompt": prompt,
+        "max_tokens": max_tokens,
+        "min_tokens": max_tokens if max_tokens == 1 else 1,
+        "temperature": 0.0,
+        "stream": stream,
+    }
+    if kv_xfer is not None:
+        payload["kv_transfer_params"] = kv_xfer
+    if stream:
+        payload["stream_options"] = {"include_usage": True}
+    url = f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}/v1/completions"
+    if not stream:
+        r = await client.post(url, json=payload, timeout=300.0)
+        r.raise_for_status()
+        return r.json()
+    last_with_usage = None; last_any = None
+    async with client.stream("POST", url, json=payload, timeout=300.0) as resp:
+        resp.raise_for_status()
+        buf = ""
+        async for chunk in resp.aiter_bytes():
+            buf += chunk.decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
+            while "\n\n" in buf:
+                line, buf = buf.split("\n\n", 1)
+                if line.startswith("data: "):
+                    s = line[6:].strip()
+                    if s == "[DONE]": continue
+                    try:
+                        d = json.loads(s); last_any = d
+                        if d.get("usage"): last_with_usage = d
+                    except Exception:
+                        pass
+    return last_with_usage or last_any or {}
+
+
+def short(d):
+    if not d: return "no_resp"
+    usage = d.get("usage") or {}
+    details = usage.get("prompt_tokens_details") or {}
+    cached = details.get("cached_tokens", 0) or usage.get("cached_tokens", 0)
+    return (f"cached={cached}/{usage.get('prompt_tokens',0)} "
+            f"completion={usage.get('completion_tokens',0)}")
+
+
+async def main():
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    p.add_argument("--src-port", type=int, default=8000)
+    p.add_argument("--dst-port", type=int, default=8001)
+    p.add_argument("--n-prefix-tokens", type=int, default=8192)
+    p.add_argument("--n-extension", type=int, default=32)
+    p.add_argument("--decode-tokens", type=int, default=16)
+    p.add_argument("--prefix-base", type=int, default=100)
+    args = p.parse_args()
+
+    rng = _r.Random(f"prefix-{args.prefix_base}")
+    prompt = [rng.randint(1024, 99_999) for _ in range(args.n_prefix_tokens)]
+
+    async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
+        # ----- Step 1: src prefills with do_remote_decode=True -----
+        t_src_start = time.monotonic()
+        src_resp = await send(
+            client, args.src_port, prompt, max_tokens=1,
+            kv_xfer={"do_remote_decode": True}, stream=False,
+        )
+        t_src_done = time.monotonic()
+        src_kv = src_resp.get("kv_transfer_params")
+        print(f"[1] src prefill ({(t_src_done-t_src_start)*1000:.0f}ms): {short(src_resp)}")
+        if not src_kv:
+            print(f"    FAIL: src returned no kv_transfer_params")
+            print(f"    response keys: {list(src_resp.keys())}")
+            sys.exit(1)
+        print(f"    src kv_transfer_params keys: {list(src_kv.keys())}")
+        print(f"    remote_block_ids: {len(src_kv.get('remote_block_ids', [[]])[0]) if src_kv.get('remote_block_ids') else 0} blocks")
+
+        # ----- Step 2: dst pulls KV using forwarded kv_transfer_params -----
+        t_dst_start = time.monotonic()
+        dst_resp = await send(
+            client, args.dst_port, prompt, max_tokens=args.decode_tokens,
+            kv_xfer=src_kv, stream=True,
+        )
+        t_dst_done = time.monotonic()
+        dst_total_ms = (t_dst_done - t_dst_start) * 1000
+        n_completion = (dst_resp.get("usage") or {}).get("completion_tokens", 0)
+        print(f"[2] dst decode ({dst_total_ms:.0f}ms, {n_completion} completion tokens): {short(dst_resp)}")
+        print(f"    [TIMING] proto=nixl src_prefill={int((t_src_done-t_src_start)*1000)}ms "
+              f"dst_total={int(dst_total_ms)}ms (KV xfer + {n_completion}-token decode)")
+        print()
+
+        # ----- Step 3: follow-up on dst (no kv_transfer_params) -----
+        ext = [_r.Random(f"ext-{args.prefix_base}").randint(1024, 99_999)
+               for _ in range(args.n_extension)]
+        follow_prompt = prompt + ext
+        fu = await send(client, args.dst_port, follow_prompt, max_tokens=4,
+                        kv_xfer=None, stream=False)
+        print(f"[3] follow-up dst (cache hit test): {short(fu)}")
+
+        usage_fu = fu.get("usage") or {}
+        details_fu = usage_fu.get("prompt_tokens_details") or {}
+        cached_fu = details_fu.get("cached_tokens", 0) or usage_fu.get("cached_tokens", 0)
+        expected_min = int(args.n_prefix_tokens * 0.95)
+        verdict = "PASS" if cached_fu >= expected_min else "FAIL"
+        print(f"\n=== verdict: {verdict} (follow-up cached={cached_fu}, "
+              f"expected >= {expected_min} of {args.n_prefix_tokens}) ===")
+        sys.exit(0 if verdict == "PASS" else 1)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    asyncio.run(main())
diff --git a/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_partial_transfer.py b/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_partial_transfer.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d3b009e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_partial_transfer.py
@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Smoke test for partial KV transfer (Mechanism B).
+
+Test if vLLM's Mooncake connector actually transfers only the
+NON-OVERLAPPING portion when dst already has prefix cache.
+
+Sequence:
+  step 0: warm dst with prompt P (cold prefill) — dst now has cache for [0, P]
+  step 1: cold prefill on src with prompt P+ext  (src now has [0, P+ext])
+  step 2: migrate src→dst with prompt P+ext
+            - dst local cache should hit [0, P]
+            - only [P, P+ext] needs to come from src (~ext tokens)
+            - dst decode should be fast
+  step 3: control: another migrate src→dst_cold with prompt P+ext
+            - dst_cold has no cache, must pull all P+ext tokens
+            - compare with step 2
+
+If step 2 is dramatically faster than step 3, partial transfer works
+and Mechanism B is viable. If step 2 ~= step 3, partial transfer isn't
+being exploited and we need to dig deeper.
+"""
+import asyncio, argparse, json, sys, uuid, time
+import httpx
+import random as _r
+
+MODEL = "/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct"
+
+
+async def send(client, port, prompt, max_tokens, kv_xfer, stream):
+    payload = {
+        "model": MODEL,
+        "prompt": prompt,
+        "max_tokens": max_tokens,
+        "min_tokens": max_tokens if max_tokens == 1 else 1,
+        "temperature": 0.0,
+        "stream": stream,
+    }
+    if kv_xfer is not None:
+        payload["kv_transfer_params"] = kv_xfer
+    if stream:
+        payload["stream_options"] = {"include_usage": True}
+    url = f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}/v1/completions"
+    if not stream:
+        r = await client.post(url, json=payload, timeout=300.0)
+        r.raise_for_status()
+        return r.json()
+    last_w = None; last_any = None
+    async with client.stream("POST", url, json=payload, timeout=300.0) as resp:
+        resp.raise_for_status()
+        buf = ""
+        async for chunk in resp.aiter_bytes():
+            buf += chunk.decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
+            while "\n\n" in buf:
+                line, buf = buf.split("\n\n", 1)
+                if line.startswith("data: "):
+                    s = line[6:].strip()
+                    if s == "[DONE]": continue
+                    try:
+                        d = json.loads(s); last_any = d
+                        if d.get("usage"): last_w = d
+                    except Exception:
+                        pass
+    return last_w or last_any or {}
+
+
+async def get_engine_id(client, bp):
+    r = await client.get(f"http://127.0.0.1:{bp}/query")
+    return r.json()["0"]["engine_id"]
+
+
+def cached_of(d):
+    usage = d.get("usage") or {}
+    det = usage.get("prompt_tokens_details") or {}
+    return det.get("cached_tokens", 0) or usage.get("cached_tokens", 0)
+
+
+async def do_migration(client, src_port, dst_port, src_bp, prompt, max_tokens, label):
+    """Perform Mooncake-style PD-sep migration, returns (src_ms, dst_ms, response)."""
+    src_id = await get_engine_id(client, src_bp)
+    transfer_id = f"smoke-xfer-{uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]}"
+    t0 = time.monotonic()
+    src_resp = await send(client, src_port, prompt, max_tokens=1,
+                          kv_xfer={"do_remote_decode": True, "do_remote_prefill": False,
+                                   "transfer_id": transfer_id}, stream=False)
+    t1 = time.monotonic()
+    bootstrap_addr = f"http://127.0.0.1:{src_bp}"
+    dst_resp = await send(client, dst_port, prompt, max_tokens=max_tokens,
+                          kv_xfer={"do_remote_decode": False, "do_remote_prefill": True,
+                                   "remote_bootstrap_addr": bootstrap_addr,
+                                   "remote_engine_id": src_id,
+                                   "transfer_id": transfer_id}, stream=True)
+    t2 = time.monotonic()
+    src_ms = int((t1-t0)*1000); dst_ms = int((t2-t1)*1000)
+    cached = cached_of(dst_resp)
+    print(f"  [{label}] src_prefill={src_ms}ms  dst_total={dst_ms}ms  cached={cached}/{len(prompt)}")
+    return src_ms, dst_ms, dst_resp
+
+
+async def main():
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    p.add_argument("--src-port", type=int, default=8000)
+    p.add_argument("--src-bp", type=int, default=8998)
+    p.add_argument("--dst-warm-port", type=int, default=8001)  # will be pre-warmed
+    p.add_argument("--dst-warm-bp", type=int, default=8999)
+    p.add_argument("--dst-cold-port", type=int, default=8002)  # cold control
+    p.add_argument("--dst-cold-bp", type=int, default=9000)
+    p.add_argument("--prefix-tokens", type=int, default=32768)
+    p.add_argument("--ext-tokens", type=int, default=512)
+    args = p.parse_args()
+
+    rng = _r.Random("partial-1")
+    prompt_base = [rng.randint(1024, 99_999) for _ in range(args.prefix_tokens)]
+    ext_tokens = [_r.Random("ext-partial").randint(1024, 99_999) for _ in range(args.ext_tokens)]
+    prompt_ext = prompt_base + ext_tokens
+
+    async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
+        print(f"\n=== Setup ===")
+        print(f"Prompt prefix: {args.prefix_tokens} tokens, extension: {args.ext_tokens} tokens")
+
+        # Step 0: warm dst_warm with prompt_base (normal request, no kv_transfer)
+        print(f"\n=== Step 0: warm dst_warm (port {args.dst_warm_port}) with prompt_base ===")
+        t0 = time.monotonic()
+        r = await send(client, args.dst_warm_port, prompt_base, max_tokens=1,
+                       kv_xfer=None, stream=False)
+        t1 = time.monotonic()
+        print(f"  cold prefill on dst_warm: {int((t1-t0)*1000)}ms, cached={cached_of(r)}/{args.prefix_tokens}")
+
+        # Sanity: 2nd request to dst_warm hits local cache
+        print(f"\n=== Sanity: 2nd request to dst_warm with same prompt — should hit local cache ===")
+        t0 = time.monotonic()
+        r = await send(client, args.dst_warm_port, prompt_base, max_tokens=1,
+                       kv_xfer=None, stream=False)
+        t1 = time.monotonic()
+        print(f"  warm request on dst_warm: {int((t1-t0)*1000)}ms, cached={cached_of(r)}/{args.prefix_tokens}")
+
+        # Step 1: cold prefill on src with prompt_ext (also caches at src)
+        print(f"\n=== Step 1: cold prefill on src (port {args.src_port}) with prompt_ext ===")
+        t0 = time.monotonic()
+        r = await send(client, args.src_port, prompt_ext, max_tokens=1,
+                       kv_xfer=None, stream=False)
+        t1 = time.monotonic()
+        print(f"  cold prefill on src: {int((t1-t0)*1000)}ms, cached={cached_of(r)}/{len(prompt_ext)}")
+
+        # Step 2: MIGRATE src -> dst_warm (which has cache for prompt_base)
+        print(f"\n=== Step 2: MIGRATE src -> dst_warm (cache-rich) with prompt_ext ===")
+        s_ms_warm, d_ms_warm, _ = await do_migration(
+            client, args.src_port, args.dst_warm_port, args.src_bp,
+            prompt_ext, max_tokens=4, label="cache-rich dst")
+
+        # Step 3: MIGRATE src -> dst_cold (no cache)
+        print(f"\n=== Step 3: MIGRATE src -> dst_cold (port {args.dst_cold_port}, cold) with prompt_ext ===")
+        s_ms_cold, d_ms_cold, _ = await do_migration(
+            client, args.src_port, args.dst_cold_port, args.src_bp,
+            prompt_ext, max_tokens=4, label="cold dst (control)")
+
+        # Verdict
+        print(f"\n=== VERDICT ===")
+        print(f"Cache-rich dst (Mechanism B):  dst_total={d_ms_warm}ms")
+        print(f"Cold dst (full transfer):      dst_total={d_ms_cold}ms")
+        speedup = (d_ms_cold - d_ms_warm) / d_ms_cold * 100 if d_ms_cold > 0 else 0
+        print(f"Δ = {d_ms_cold - d_ms_warm}ms ({speedup:+.1f}% faster with cache-rich dst)")
+        print(f"Partial transfer {'WORKING' if speedup > 30 else 'NOT working / not exploited'}.")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    asyncio.run(main())
diff --git a/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_test_migrate_cache.py b/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_test_migrate_cache.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2cfda27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/microbench/connector_tax/cache_sweep/smoke_test_migrate_cache.py
@@ -0,0 +1,255 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Smoke test: does remote-prefill on dst leave its prefix cache discoverable
+to a follow-up turn on the same instance?
+
+Reproducer for the v3 rotation bug observed in unified_v3 (next-turn at
+decode_target sees cached_tokens=0 despite migration's `cache_blocks`
+supposedly running).
+
+Expects 2 vLLM instances running on 127.0.0.1:8000 and 8001 with
+--kv-transfer-config '{"kv_connector":"MooncakeConnector","kv_role":"kv_both"}'
+and Mooncake bootstrap servers on 8998 and 8999.
+
+Run flow:
+  1. Query both bootstrap servers for engine_ids.
+  2. Send migration: src=8000 do_remote_decode (max_tokens=1), then
+     dst=8001 do_remote_prefill (pulls KV via Mooncake) with same prompt.
+  3. Send follow-up: same session prompt + tiny extension, hit 8001
+     directly (no kv_transfer_params), check cached_tokens.
+
+A working migration with prefix-cache visibility would see ~100% cached
+on the follow-up (full prefix hit). The v3 bug shows cached=0.
+"""
+import asyncio
+import argparse
+import json
+import sys
+import uuid
+import httpx
+
+
+async def get_engine_id(client: httpx.AsyncClient, port: int) -> str:
+    url = f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}/query"
+    r = await client.get(url)
+    r.raise_for_status()
+    data = r.json()
+    # data = {"0": {"engine_id": "..."}, ...}
+    return data["0"]["engine_id"]
+
+
+async def send_completion(
+    client: httpx.AsyncClient,
+    host_port: int,
+    prompt: list[int],
+    max_tokens: int,
+    kv_transfer_params: dict | None = None,
+    stream: bool = False,
+) -> dict:
+    payload = {
+        "model": "/home/admin/cpfs/wjh/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct",
+        "prompt": prompt,
+        "max_tokens": max_tokens,
+        "min_tokens": max_tokens if max_tokens == 1 else 1,
+        "temperature": 0.0,
+        "stream": stream,
+    }
+    if stream:
+        payload["stream_options"] = {"include_usage": True}
+    if kv_transfer_params:
+        payload["kv_transfer_params"] = kv_transfer_params
+    url = f"http://127.0.0.1:{host_port}/v1/completions"
+
+    if not stream:
+        r = await client.post(url, json=payload, timeout=300.0)
+        r.raise_for_status()
+        return r.json()
+    else:
+        # Stream and collect chunks; keep the LAST chunk that contains
+        # `usage` (with include_usage, the very last data: chunk has it).
+        last_with_usage = None
+        last_any = None
+        async with client.stream("POST", url, json=payload, timeout=300.0) as resp:
+            resp.raise_for_status()
+            buffer = ""
+            async for chunk in resp.aiter_bytes():
+                buffer += chunk.decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
+                while "\n\n" in buffer:
+                    line, buffer = buffer.split("\n\n", 1)
+                    if line.startswith("data: "):
+                        data_str = line[6:].strip()
+                        if data_str == "[DONE]":
+                            continue
+                        try:
+                            d = json.loads(data_str)
+                            last_any = d
+                            if d.get("usage"):
+                                last_with_usage = d
+                        except Exception:
+                            pass
+        return last_with_usage or last_any or {}
+
+
+def short(d: dict) -> str:
+    """Pull cached_tokens out of the response usage section."""
+    if not d:
+        return "no_resp"
+    usage = d.get("usage") or {}
+    details = usage.get("prompt_tokens_details") or {}
+    cached = details.get("cached_tokens", 0) or usage.get("cached_tokens", 0)
+    return (
+        f"cached={cached}/{usage.get('prompt_tokens', 0)} "
+        f"completion={usage.get('completion_tokens', 0)} "
+        f"id={d.get('id', '?')[:24]}"
+    )
+
+
+async def main():
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    p.add_argument("--src-port", type=int, default=8000)
+    p.add_argument("--dst-port", type=int, default=8001)
+    p.add_argument("--src-bp", type=int, default=8998)
+    p.add_argument("--dst-bp", type=int, default=8999)
+    p.add_argument("--n-prefix-tokens", type=int, default=8192,
+                   help="Length of synthetic prompt prefix (tokens)")
+    p.add_argument("--n-extension", type=int, default=32,
+                   help="Tokens added in the follow-up request")
+    p.add_argument("--noise-reqs", type=int, default=0,
+                   help="Number of unrelated requests to send to dst between "
+                        "migration and follow-up (eviction-pressure test)")
+    p.add_argument("--noise-tokens", type=int, default=16384,
+                   help="Tokens per noise request")
+    p.add_argument("--noise-parallel", type=int, default=4,
+                   help="How many noise requests in parallel")
+    p.add_argument("--prefix-base", type=int, default=100,
+                   help="Token-id base for the prompt prefix (use distinct value "
+                        "across iterations to avoid prefix-cache pollution).")
+    p.add_argument("--decode-tokens", type=int, default=16,
+                   help="max_tokens on dst decode request")
+    args = p.parse_args()
+
+    async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
+        src_id = await get_engine_id(client, args.src_bp)
+        dst_id = await get_engine_id(client, args.dst_bp)
+        print(f"src engine_id = {src_id}")
+        print(f"dst engine_id = {dst_id}")
+        print()
+
+        # Build a deterministic prompt: a long enough token sequence to be
+        # multiple blocks. Use simple range to avoid tokenizer dependence.
+        # Build deterministic prompt using values in safe vocab range [1024, 100000)
+        # so high prefix-base values don't overflow the tokenizer vocab.
+        import random as _r
+        rng = _r.Random(f"prefix-{args.prefix_base}")
+        prompt = [rng.randint(1024, 99_999) for _ in range(args.n_prefix_tokens)]
+
+        # ----- Step 1: Migration. src does prefill (max_tokens=1, no stream),
+        # then dst pulls KV and decodes. -----
+        transfer_id = f"smoke-xfer-{uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]}"
+        print(f"[1] migration: transfer_id={transfer_id}")
+
+        # First: cold-prefill on src (no Mooncake yet, just establish src has the KV)
+        # The proxy convention: src sees do_remote_decode=True so it will SEND its KV
+        # via Mooncake later. We do this as a single-shot.
+        import time as _t
+        t_src_start = _t.monotonic()
+        src_resp_task = asyncio.create_task(
+            send_completion(
+                client, args.src_port, prompt, max_tokens=1,
+                kv_transfer_params={
+                    "do_remote_decode": True,
+                    "do_remote_prefill": False,
+                    "transfer_id": transfer_id,
+                },
+                stream=False,
+            )
+        )
+
+        # Slight stagger: dst needs to be ready to pull. In production the
+        # proxy waits for src to finish before sending dst. We'll do the
+        # same — await src then send dst.
+        src_resp = await src_resp_task
+        t_src_done = _t.monotonic()
+        print(f"    src prefill resp ({(t_src_done-t_src_start)*1000:.0f}ms): {short(src_resp)}")
+
+        bootstrap_addr = f"http://127.0.0.1:{args.src_bp}"
+        t_dst_start = _t.monotonic()
+        dst_resp = await send_completion(
+            client, args.dst_port, prompt, max_tokens=args.decode_tokens,
+            kv_transfer_params={
+                "do_remote_decode": False,
+                "do_remote_prefill": True,
+                "remote_bootstrap_addr": bootstrap_addr,
+                "remote_engine_id": src_id,
+                "transfer_id": transfer_id,
+            },
+            stream=True,
+        )
+        t_dst_done = _t.monotonic()
+        # dst time = KV transfer + decode of N tokens. Subtract approx decode time
+        # to isolate transfer cost.
+        usage_d = dst_resp.get("usage") or {}
+        n_completion = usage_d.get("completion_tokens", 0)
+        dst_total_ms = (t_dst_done - t_dst_start) * 1000
+        print(f"    dst decode resp ({dst_total_ms:.0f}ms, {n_completion} completion tokens): {short(dst_resp)}")
+        print(f"    [TIMING] proto={args.n_prefix_tokens}p src_prefill={int((t_src_done-t_src_start)*1000)}ms "
+              f"dst_total={int(dst_total_ms)}ms (KV xfer + {n_completion}-token decode)")
+        print()
+
+        # ----- Step 1.5: Noise. Send unrelated requests to dst to test eviction. -----
+        if args.noise_reqs > 0:
+            print(f"[1.5] sending {args.noise_reqs} noise requests "
+                  f"(tokens={args.noise_tokens}, parallel={args.noise_parallel}) to dst")
+            async def noise(idx):
+                rng_n = _r.Random(f"noise-{args.prefix_base}-{idx}")
+                p_n = [rng_n.randint(1024, 99_999) for _ in range(args.noise_tokens)]
+                return await send_completion(
+                    client, args.dst_port, p_n, max_tokens=1,
+                    kv_transfer_params=None, stream=False,
+                )
+            sem = asyncio.Semaphore(args.noise_parallel)
+            async def gated(idx):
+                async with sem:
+                    return await noise(idx)
+            results = await asyncio.gather(*[gated(i) for i in range(args.noise_reqs)])
+            done = sum(1 for r in results if r and r.get("usage"))
+            print(f"    noise: {done}/{args.noise_reqs} completed")
+            print()
+
+        # ----- Step 2: Follow-up. Same session, extended prompt, hit dst directly. -----
+        rng_ext = _r.Random(f"ext-{args.prefix_base}")
+        follow_prompt = prompt + [rng_ext.randint(1024, 99_999) for _ in range(args.n_extension)]
+        print(f"[2] follow-up direct to dst (no kv_transfer_params): "
+              f"prefix_len={args.n_prefix_tokens}, extended_len={len(follow_prompt)}")
+        fu = await send_completion(
+            client, args.dst_port, follow_prompt, max_tokens=4,
+            kv_transfer_params=None,
+            stream=False,
+        )
+        print(f"    follow-up resp: {short(fu)}")
+        print()
+
+        # ----- Step 3: Same prompt twice on dst (sanity) -----
+        print(f"[3] sanity: same prompt again to dst (should see local hit "
+              f"from step 2's just-cached blocks)")
+        sanity = await send_completion(
+            client, args.dst_port, follow_prompt, max_tokens=4,
+            kv_transfer_params=None,
+            stream=False,
+        )
+        print(f"    sanity resp: {short(sanity)}")
+        print()
+
+        # ----- Verdict -----
+        usage_fu = fu.get("usage") or {}
+        details_fu = usage_fu.get("prompt_tokens_details") or {}
+        cached_fu = details_fu.get("cached_tokens", 0) or usage_fu.get("cached_tokens", 0)
+        # Expect ~n_prefix_tokens (minus the last token + alignment)
+        expected_min = int(args.n_prefix_tokens * 0.95)
+        verdict = "PASS" if cached_fu >= expected_min else "FAIL"
+        print(f"=== verdict: {verdict} (follow-up cached={cached_fu}, "
+              f"expected >= {expected_min} of {args.n_prefix_tokens}) ===")
+        sys.exit(0 if verdict == "PASS" else 1)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    asyncio.run(main())