diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
index fcecd1aae..f1677f0ff 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ jobs:
         with:
           node-version: "20"
 
+      - name: Check cookbook configs
+        run: node docs/scripts/check_cookbook_configs.mjs
+
       # Hard gate: docs internal links/anchors/redirects must resolve.
       # mint is pinned for reproducibility (its heading-slug rules are
       # version-sensitive); bump deliberately after re-verifying locally.
diff --git a/docs/cookbook/autoregressive/DeepSeek/DeepSeek-V4.mdx b/docs/cookbook/autoregressive/DeepSeek/DeepSeek-V4.mdx
index 8188dbf18..d9eadf09e 100644
--- a/docs/cookbook/autoregressive/DeepSeek/DeepSeek-V4.mdx
+++ b/docs/cookbook/autoregressive/DeepSeek/DeepSeek-V4.mdx
@@ -602,4 +602,4 @@ Larger blocks can improve decode latency when acceptance stays high, but they al
 
 For every candidate, compare with the same recipe without `--speculative-algorithm DSPARK`. Restart the server between the DSpark and non-speculative legs, keep the request corpus, sampling, concurrency, and warmup identical, and give each `bench_serving` leg its own `--flush-cache`. Leave `--speculative-draft-attention-backend` unset unless a separate profiling run justifies an override.
 
-DSpark currently requires CUDA, `pp_size == 1`, and DP Attention disabled. It is not compatible with PD disaggregation on current SGLang releases; turn DSpark off before selecting a prefill or decode role. The DP-Attention and MI355X Flash Official recipes therefore run target-only. If a larger draft block or concurrency causes graph-capture OOM, lower `--mem-fraction-static`, the draft block size, or the configured maximum running requests, then rerun both performance and accuracy gates.
+DSpark currently requires CUDA, `pp_size == 1`, and DP Attention disabled. It is not compatible with PD disaggregation on current SGLang releases; selecting a prefill or decode role in the Playground automatically removes the inherited DSpark flags. The DP-Attention and MI355X Flash Official recipes therefore run target-only. If a larger draft block or concurrency causes graph-capture OOM, lower `--mem-fraction-static`, the draft block size, or the configured maximum running requests, then rerun both performance and accuracy gates.
diff --git a/docs/scripts/check_cookbook_configs.mjs b/docs/scripts/check_cookbook_configs.mjs
index acba44071..aa3a7b8bb 100755
--- a/docs/scripts/check_cookbook_configs.mjs
+++ b/docs/scripts/check_cookbook_configs.mjs
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
 //      declares silently stops matching; the panel just shows a different cell.
 //   4. Predicate safety. showWhen / disabled / flags run against selections the
 //      author never clicked through; a throw there blanks the whole widget.
+//   5. PD/speculation reachability. A PD card must stay reachable when a base
+//      cell inherits an algorithm it declares incompatible, so choosing a PD
+//      role can remove that algorithm from the generated command.
 
 import { readFileSync, readdirSync } from "node:fs";
 import { dirname, join, relative } from "node:path";
@@ -193,6 +196,25 @@ for (const path of walk(CONFIGS)) {
       }
     }, "curl");
   }
+
+  const pd = (config.playgroundFeatures || {}).pdDisagg;
+  if (pd && typeof pd.showWhen === "function") {
+    const incompatible = (pd.incompatibleSpeculativeAlgorithms || [])
+      .map((name) => String(name).toUpperCase());
+    for (const [i, cell] of (config.cells || []).entries()) {
+      const algorithmFlag = (cell.flags || []).find((flag) =>
+        flag.split(/[\s=]/)[0] === "--speculative-algorithm");
+      const algorithm = algorithmFlag
+        ? algorithmFlag.split(/[\s=]/).filter(Boolean)[1]?.toUpperCase()
+        : null;
+      if (!algorithm || !incompatible.includes(algorithm)) continue;
+      const selection = { ...(cell.match || {}), specAlgorithm: algorithm };
+      if (!pd.showWhen(selection)) {
+        fail(where, `cells[${i}] hides PD Disagg for incompatible ${algorithm}; `
+          + "the card must remain reachable so a PD role can disable speculation");
+      }
+    }
+  }
 }
 
 if (failures.length) {
diff --git a/docs/src/snippets/_playground.jsx b/docs/src/snippets/_playground.jsx
index 69e49d14a..5fe304d5e 100644
--- a/docs/src/snippets/_playground.jsx
+++ b/docs/src/snippets/_playground.jsx
@@ -909,10 +909,6 @@ export const Playground = ({ config }) => {
           "--disaggregation-mode", "--disaggregation-transfer-backend",
           "--disaggregation-ib-device", "--disaggregation-bootstrap-port",
         ]);
-        const specAlgorithm = (h.findFlagArg(flags, "--speculative-algorithm") || "").toUpperCase();
-        if ((fc.incompatibleSpeculativeAlgorithms || []).includes(specAlgorithm)) {
-          return { flags, env };
-        }
         const backends = fc.transferBackends || [];
         // A config that omits `modes` has the role on the Deploy panel instead;
         // this card then only tunes the transport for whatever role is selected.
@@ -921,6 +917,16 @@ export const Playground = ({ config }) => {
           : ((sel && sel.pdMode) || "off");
 
         if (mode === "prefill" || mode === "decode") {
+          // PD and some speculative algorithms cannot run together. Keep the
+          // PD card reachable for a speculative base recipe, then make the
+          // user's explicit PD-role selection win by removing the whole
+          // speculative flag family before composing the role command.
+          const specAlgorithm = (h.findFlagArg(
+            flags, "--speculative-algorithm") || "").toUpperCase();
+          if ((fc.incompatibleSpeculativeAlgorithms || []).includes(specAlgorithm)) {
+            flags = flags.filter((flag) =>
+              !flag.split(/[\s=]/)[0].startsWith("--speculative-"));
+          }
           const backend = value.transferBackend || (backends[0] || {}).id || "mooncake";
           const adds = [
             `--disaggregation-mode ${mode}`,
diff --git a/docs/src/snippets/configs/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.jsx b/docs/src/snippets/configs/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.jsx
index c5a500542..13622017e 100644
--- a/docs/src/snippets/configs/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.jsx
+++ b/docs/src/snippets/configs/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.jsx
@@ -319,7 +319,6 @@ sgl-eval run aime25 \\
 
     // ----- Card 5: "PD Disaggregation" -----
     pdDisagg: {
-      showWhen: (base) => base.specAlgorithm !== "DSPARK",
       incompatibleSpeculativeAlgorithms: ["DSPARK"],
       modes: [
         { id: "off",     label: "Off" },