From 73f071db52e87f56f9d44546fc81b7dbc2aaa72e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cheng Wan <54331508+ch-wan@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:25:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Deprecate the parallel getters the context answers, and
 ratchet them shut (#40342)

---
 .../runtime/distributed/parallel_state.py     |  30 +
 ...est_component_accuracy_parallel_runtime.py |  14 +-
 python/sglang/srt/arg_groups/arg_utils.py     |   7 +-
 .../sglang/srt/arg_groups/fields/parallel.py  |  70 ++
 .../sglang/srt/distributed/parallel_state.py  | 183 ++++--
 python/sglang/srt/mem_cache/pool_host/base.py |   4 +-
 .../runner/decode_cuda_graph_runner.py        |   2 -
 python/sglang/srt/model_loader/loader.py      |   4 +-
 python/sglang/srt/models/gigachat35.py        |   5 +-
 python/sglang/srt/models/gigachat35_mtp.py    |   3 +-
 .../srt/multiplex/multiplexing_mixin.py       |  21 +-
 python/sglang/srt/runtime_context.py          | 253 +++-----
 .../attention_methods/dense_attention.py      |   7 +-
 python/sglang/test/test_utils.py              |  15 +-
 test/registered/dcp/test_dcp_layout_unit.py   |   4 +-
 .../dcp/test_reduce_scatter_along_dim.py      |   4 +
 .../communication/bench_custom_all_reduce.py  |   4 +
 .../bench_symm_mem_all_gather.py              |   4 +
 .../communication/bench_tp_qknorm.py          |   4 +
 .../communication/test_custom_all_reduce.py   |   4 +
 .../communication/test_symm_mem_all_gather.py |   4 +
 .../ops/communication/test_tp_qknorm.py       |   4 +
 .../kernels/ops/kimi_k3/test_ar_fusion.py     |   4 +
 .../kernels/ops/kimi_k3/test_collectives.py   |   4 +
 .../unit/disaggregation/test_encode_server.py |  16 +-
 .../test_register_to_bootstrap.py             |  19 +-
 ...flashattention_pa_swa_prefill_lens_size.py |   3 +
 .../layers/moe/test_mega_moe_deepgemm_api.py  |   8 +-
 .../test_disagg_idle_step_counters.py         |  12 +-
 .../test_mamba_donated_alloc_ratio.py         |   4 +-
 .../unit/mem_cache/test_mem_pool_host.py      |   9 +-
 .../unit/mem_cache/test_unified_mla_views.py  |   6 +-
 .../runner_utils/test_graph_pool_borrow.py    |   8 +-
 .../model_executor/test_kv_canary_headroom.py |   7 +-
 .../model_executor/test_pool_configurator.py  |   6 +-
 .../unit/model_loader/test_modelopt_export.py |   4 +-
 .../unit/model_loader/test_modelopt_loader.py |   4 +-
 .../model_loader/test_prefetch_checkpoints.py |   6 +-
 .../model_loader/test_presharded_loader.py    |  10 +-
 .../test_transformers_fallback.py             |   8 +-
 .../multimodal/test_vit_cuda_graph_runner.py  |  16 +-
 .../test_resolution_declarations.py           |  16 +-
 .../unit/spec/test_dflash_logits.py           |   4 +
 test/registered/unit/test_runtime_context.py  | 610 +++++++++++++-----
 44 files changed, 933 insertions(+), 501 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/distributed/parallel_state.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/distributed/parallel_state.py
index 5123d0dbb..f3be2f255 100644
--- a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/distributed/parallel_state.py
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/distributed/parallel_state.py
@@ -97,9 +97,14 @@ def init_world_group(
 
 def _sync_srt_world_group() -> None:
     import sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state as srt_parallel_state
+    from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_parallel
 
     if srt_parallel_state._WORLD is None:
         srt_parallel_state._WORLD = _WORLD
+    if srt_parallel_state._WORLD is _WORLD:
+        # On the context too: that is where a handle is read from, and
+        # assigning the module global above does not reach it.
+        get_parallel().override_permanently(world_group=_WORLD)
 
 
 def _clear_srt_world_group() -> None:
@@ -132,6 +137,27 @@ def _sync_srt_tp_group() -> None:
         srt_parallel_state._ATTN_TP = _TP
     if srt_parallel_state._ATTN_TP is _TP:
         get_parallel().override_permanently(
+            # The group itself, because that is what the `srt` context answers
+            # a handle with -- assigning the module global above does not reach
+            # it. `tp_size` comes with them: the group is as wide as the world
+            # while the dummy carries this package's, and the widths below are
+            # quotients of one number, so stating a subset would describe a
+            # layout that does not exist.
+            tp_group=_TP,
+            attn_tp_group=_TP,
+            tp_size=_TP.world_size,
+            # The ranks too. The shared layers shard by them -- `vision.py`
+            # reads `attn_tp_rank`, every `srt` linear built without an
+            # explicit rank reads `tp_rank` -- and this package publishes no
+            # rank bundle, so nothing else writes one. The draft has no
+            # pipeline, context or expert dimension of its own, so those
+            # positions are zero.
+            tp_rank=_TP.rank_in_group,
+            attn_tp_rank=_TP.rank_in_group,
+            moe_tp_rank=_TP.rank_in_group,
+            attn_cp_rank=0,
+            pp_rank=0,
+            moe_ep_rank=0,
             **derive_parallel_widths(
                 tp_size=_TP.world_size,
                 attn_cp_size=1,
@@ -151,6 +177,10 @@ def _clear_srt_tp_group() -> None:
     if srt_parallel_state._ATTN_TP is _TP:
         srt_parallel_state._ATTN_TP = None
         get_parallel().clear_stamp()
+        if srt_parallel_state._WORLD is not None:
+            # `clear_stamp` drops every stamped name; the WORLD group this
+            # package lent is still built, so hand it back.
+            get_parallel().override_permanently(world_group=srt_parallel_state._WORLD)
     if srt_parallel_state._TP is _TP:
         srt_parallel_state._TP = None
 
diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/unit/test_component_accuracy_parallel_runtime.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/unit/test_component_accuracy_parallel_runtime.py
index a7e6d0ac5..9539f9e87 100644
--- a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/unit/test_component_accuracy_parallel_runtime.py
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/unit/test_component_accuracy_parallel_runtime.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ from contextlib import ExitStack
 from types import SimpleNamespace
 from unittest.mock import call, patch
 
+import pytest
 import torch
 from torch import nn
 
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ def test_srt_attention_tp_group_tracks_diffusion_tp_group():
     # `world_size`, because lending the group also states the parallel widths it
     # implies -- the shared `srt` vision layers ask for `attn_tp_size`, and this
     # package publishes no `srt` config for that read to resolve against.
-    tp_group = SimpleNamespace(world_size=2)
+    tp_group = SimpleNamespace(world_size=2, rank_in_group=1)
 
     with (
         patch.object(parallel_state, "_TP", tp_group),
@@ -147,11 +148,22 @@ def test_srt_attention_tp_group_tracks_diffusion_tp_group():
         assert srt_parallel_state._TP is tp_group
         assert srt_parallel_state._ATTN_TP is tp_group
         assert get_parallel().attn_tp_size == 2
+        # The handle too: assigning the module global does not reach the `srt`
+        # context, which is what the shared layers ask for a group.
+        assert get_parallel().tp_group is tp_group
+        assert get_parallel().attn_tp_group is tp_group
+        # And the ranks the shared layers shard by. Nothing else writes one
+        # here: this package publishes no rank bundle, so a handle without a
+        # rank leaves every `srt` linear unable to say which shard it is.
+        assert get_parallel().tp_rank == 1
+        assert get_parallel().attn_tp_rank == 1
 
         parallel_state._clear_srt_tp_group()
 
         assert srt_parallel_state._TP is None
         assert srt_parallel_state._ATTN_TP is None
+        with pytest.raises(RuntimeError):
+            get_parallel().tp_group
 
 
 def test_srt_owned_groups_are_not_overwritten_or_cleared():
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/arg_groups/arg_utils.py b/python/sglang/srt/arg_groups/arg_utils.py
index 1fbf53b30..4e25707d6 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/arg_groups/arg_utils.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/arg_groups/arg_utils.py
@@ -107,7 +107,12 @@ class Derived(msgspec.Struct, frozen=True):
     ``publish`` and stored as an ordinary bag leaf -- a plain attribute load,
     which is what a read inside compiled model code needs.
 
-    Every declaration carries ``fn`` today, the parallel quotients included:
+    A declaration with no ``fn`` is one nothing can compute: a rank, or a
+    process group. Those are written into the namespace at runtime -- by
+    ``publish`` from the spawn bundle, or by the build that creates the group --
+    and until then the name has no answer.
+
+    Most declarations carry ``fn``, the parallel quotients included:
     they are a function of the configured leaves, so they are computed at
     publish like the rest. What is special about them is not how they are
     computed but that a stamp can move one afterwards -- ``initialize_dp_attention``
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/arg_groups/fields/parallel.py b/python/sglang/srt/arg_groups/fields/parallel.py
index 1b4df5bdf..378a52220 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/arg_groups/fields/parallel.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/arg_groups/fields/parallel.py
@@ -320,3 +320,73 @@ class Parallel(msgspec.Struct):
         doc="Whether decode context parallelism is in play: `dcp_size` is "
         "wider than one rank, which is exactly when the group gets built.",
     )
+
+    # -- written at runtime, not carried by any configuration --------------
+    #
+    # No `fn`: nothing here is a function of the leaves above. A rank is
+    # written by `publish` from the spawn bundle; a group by the build that
+    # creates it. Until one of them has run there is no answer, and a read
+    # says so rather than deriving something that would answer a different
+    # question.
+    tp_rank = Derived(doc="This process's place in the tensor-parallel group.")
+    pp_rank = Derived(doc="This process's place in the pipeline group.")
+    moe_ep_rank = Derived(doc="This process's place in the expert-parallel group.")
+    moe_dp_rank = Derived(doc=("This process's place in the MoE data-parallel group."))
+    moe_tp_rank = Derived(
+        doc=("This process's place in the MoE tensor-parallel group.")
+    )
+    attn_tp_rank = Derived(
+        doc=("This process's place in the attention tensor-parallel group.")
+    )
+    attn_cp_rank = Derived(
+        doc=("This process's place in the attention context-parallel group.")
+    )
+    dcp_rank = Derived(
+        doc=("This process's place in the decode context-parallel group.")
+    )
+    attn_dcp_rank = Derived(
+        doc=(
+            "Decode context-parallel rank inside the attention TP group, "
+            "zero where decode context parallelism is off."
+        )
+    )
+    attn_dp_rank = Derived(
+        doc=(
+            "This process's index in the attention-DP group, computed from "
+            "`tp_rank` when `initialize_dp_attention` runs."
+        )
+    )
+    dp_rank = Derived(
+        doc=(
+            "Which data-parallel replica this process serves, as the data "
+            "parallel controller numbered them at spawn. `None` when there "
+            "is no controller: unlike the other ranks it is a position in "
+            "no group, which is why the spawn states it."
+        )
+    )
+    launch_world_rank = Derived(
+        doc=(
+            "This process's rank in the WORLD group as built. A scale-up "
+            "does not renumber it."
+        )
+    )
+    launch_world_size = Derived(
+        fn="sglang.srt.runtime_context.launch_world_size_of",
+        doc="Width the WORLD group was built at -- what a scale-up leaves "
+        "behind rather than updates.",
+    )
+    max_world_size = Derived(
+        fn="sglang.srt.runtime_context.max_world_size_of",
+        doc="Ranks the WORLD group has room for: `--max-ep-size` when set, "
+        "otherwise the launch width.",
+    )
+    world_group = Derived(doc="The WORLD group.")
+    tp_group = Derived(doc="The tensor-parallel group.")
+    pp_group = Derived(doc="The pipeline group.")
+    moe_ep_group = Derived(doc="The expert-parallel group.")
+    moe_dp_group = Derived(doc="The MoE data-parallel group.")
+    moe_tp_group = Derived(doc="The MoE tensor-parallel group.")
+    attn_tp_group = Derived(doc="The attention tensor-parallel group.")
+    attn_cp_group = Derived(doc="The attention context-parallel group.")
+    shared_experts_tp_group = Derived(doc=("The shared-expert tensor-parallel group."))
+    dcp_group = Derived(doc="The decode context-parallel group.")
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/distributed/parallel_state.py b/python/sglang/srt/distributed/parallel_state.py
index 4c02ebb21..f127f2fa5 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/distributed/parallel_state.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/distributed/parallel_state.py
@@ -24,10 +24,13 @@ If you only need to use the distributed environment without model/pipeline
 """
 
 import contextlib
+import functools
 import gc
 import logging
 import os
 import pickle
+import sys
+import warnings
 import weakref
 from collections import namedtuple
 from contextlib import contextmanager, nullcontext
@@ -50,7 +53,6 @@ from sglang.srt.model_executor.runner_backend_utils.tc_piecewise_cuda_graph impo
 )
 from sglang.srt.platforms.device_mixin import _DEVICE_TO_DISTRIBUTED_BACKEND
 from sglang.srt.runtime_context import (
-    _validate_parallel,
     derive_parallel_widths,
     get_global_dwdp_manager,
     get_parallel,
@@ -2072,8 +2074,7 @@ _WORLD: Optional[GroupCoordinator] = None
 
 
 def get_world_group() -> GroupCoordinator:
-    assert _WORLD is not None, "world group is not initialized"
-    return _WORLD
+    return get_parallel().world_group
 
 
 def init_world_group(
@@ -2152,43 +2153,37 @@ _DCP: Optional[GroupCoordinator] = None
 # duplicate GroupCoordinator for prefill in PD-Multiplexing
 _PDMUX_PREFILL_TP_GROUP: Optional[GroupCoordinator] = None
 
-_ENABLE_PDMUX_P_TP: bool = False
 
+@contextmanager
+def pdmux_prefill_tp_group():
+    """Run on the prefill stream's own tensor-parallel communicator.
 
-def set_pdmux_status(enable_prefill_multiplexing: bool):
-    global _ENABLE_PDMUX_P_TP
-    _ENABLE_PDMUX_P_TP = enable_prefill_multiplexing
+    PD multiplexing builds a duplicate TP group -- the same ranks, a second
+    communicator -- so prefill and decode can occupy separate streams without
+    serialising on one. Nothing about the topology differs, so the scope states
+    the handle and nothing else.
+    """
+    assert _PDMUX_PREFILL_TP_GROUP is not None, (
+        "tensor model parallel group for PD-Multiplexing Prefill is not initialized"
+    )
+    with get_parallel().override(tp_group=_PDMUX_PREFILL_TP_GROUP):
+        yield
 
 
 def get_tp_group() -> GroupCoordinator:
-    if _ENABLE_PDMUX_P_TP:
-        assert _PDMUX_PREFILL_TP_GROUP is not None, (
-            "tensor model parallel group for PD-Multiplexing Prefill is not initialized"
-        )
-        return _PDMUX_PREFILL_TP_GROUP
-    assert _TP is not None, "tensor model parallel group is not initialized"
-    return _TP
+    return get_parallel().tp_group
 
 
 def get_attn_tp_group() -> GroupCoordinator:
-    assert _ATTN_TP is not None, (
-        "attention tensor model parallel group is not initialized"
-    )
-    return _ATTN_TP
+    return get_parallel().attn_tp_group
 
 
 def get_shared_experts_tp_group() -> GroupCoordinator:
-    assert _SHARED_EXPERTS_TP is not None, (
-        "shared-expert tensor model parallel group is not initialized"
-    )
-    return _SHARED_EXPERTS_TP
+    return get_parallel().shared_experts_tp_group
 
 
 def get_attn_cp_group() -> GroupCoordinator:
-    assert _ATTN_CP is not None, (
-        "attention context model parallel group is not initialized"
-    )
-    return _ATTN_CP
+    return get_parallel().attn_cp_group
 
 
 def get_dcp_group_no_assert() -> Optional[GroupCoordinator]:
@@ -2196,8 +2191,7 @@ def get_dcp_group_no_assert() -> Optional[GroupCoordinator]:
 
 
 def get_dcp_group() -> GroupCoordinator:
-    assert _DCP is not None, "decode context parallel group is not initialized"
-    return _DCP
+    return get_parallel().dcp_group
 
 
 _MOE_DP: Optional[GroupCoordinator] = None
@@ -2206,18 +2200,15 @@ _MOE_TP: Optional[GroupCoordinator] = None
 
 
 def get_moe_dp_group() -> GroupCoordinator:
-    assert _MOE_DP is not None, "moe data parallel group is not initialized"
-    return _MOE_DP
+    return get_parallel().moe_dp_group
 
 
 def get_moe_ep_group() -> GroupCoordinator:
-    assert _MOE_EP is not None, "expert model parallel group is not initialized"
-    return _MOE_EP
+    return get_parallel().moe_ep_group
 
 
 def get_moe_tp_group() -> GroupCoordinator:
-    assert _MOE_TP is not None, "expert model parallel group is not initialized"
-    return _MOE_TP
+    return get_parallel().moe_tp_group
 
 
 # kept for backward compatibility
@@ -2233,8 +2224,7 @@ def get_self_pp_group() -> GroupCoordinator:
 
 
 def get_pp_group() -> GroupCoordinator:
-    assert _PP is not None, "pipeline model parallel group is not initialized"
-    return _PP
+    return get_parallel().pp_group
 
 
 # kept for backward compatibility
@@ -2513,6 +2503,10 @@ def init_distributed_environment(
         assert _WORLD.world_size == torch.distributed.get_world_size(), (
             "world group already initialized with a different world size"
         )
+    # Stated here rather than with the groups below it: WORLD is built in this
+    # function, and every group `initialize_model_parallel` builds is placed by
+    # reading it back.
+    get_parallel().override_permanently(world_group=_WORLD)
 
 
 def initialize_model_parallel(
@@ -2692,7 +2686,7 @@ def initialize_model_parallel(
             rank_offset=rank_offset,
             max_world_size=max_world_size,
         )
-        if get_tensor_model_parallel_rank() == 0:
+        if _TP.rank_in_group == 0:
             logger.info(
                 f"DCP enabled, dcp_size={decode_context_parallel_size}, tp_size={tensor_model_parallel_size}"
             )
@@ -2942,10 +2936,32 @@ def initialize_model_parallel(
         )
 
     # The groups just built and the configuration they were built from are two
-    # accounts of one layout. Check them against each other here, where the
-    # disagreement is still attributable, rather than letting a collective run
-    # on the wrong peers.
-    _validate_parallel(get_parallel(), "group build")
+    # accounts of one layout, and this is where they meet: stating a group
+    # checks the identities, so a group built on the wrong peers is refused
+    # here rather than hanging in a collective later.
+    #
+    # A dimension this configuration does not have is left unstated -- `_DCP`
+    # is None without decode context parallelism -- so reading it says the
+    # group was never built, which is what these getters have always said,
+    # rather than handing back a None to fail on at the collective.
+    #
+    # WORLD is not here: it is built and stated by
+    # `init_distributed_environment`, which is what lets every build above
+    # place its group by reading `get_world_group().local_rank`.
+    built = {
+        "tp_group": _TP,
+        "pp_group": _PP,
+        "moe_ep_group": _MOE_EP,
+        "moe_dp_group": _MOE_DP,
+        "moe_tp_group": _MOE_TP,
+        "attn_tp_group": _ATTN_TP,
+        "attn_cp_group": _ATTN_CP,
+        "shared_experts_tp_group": _SHARED_EXPERTS_TP,
+        "dcp_group": _DCP,
+    }
+    get_parallel().override_permanently(
+        **{name: group for name, group in built.items() if group is not None}
+    )
 
 
 def create_custom_parallel_group(
@@ -3041,8 +3057,8 @@ def patch_pipeline_parallel_group(pp_group: GroupCoordinator):
     assert not _PP_STATE_PATCHED, "Should not call when it's already patched"
 
     _PP_STATE_PATCHED = True
-    old_pp_group = get_pp_group()
     global _PP
+    old_pp_group = _PP
     _PP = pp_group
     try:
         # `pp_size` is a configured leaf: unlike the rank and the handle it
@@ -3096,8 +3112,8 @@ def patch_tensor_parallel_group(tp_group: GroupCoordinator, *, owns_attention: b
     assert not _TP_STATE_PATCHED, "Should not call when it's already patched"
 
     _TP_STATE_PATCHED = True
-    old_tp_group = get_tp_group()
     global _TP
+    old_tp_group = _TP
     _TP = tp_group
     narrowed = dict(
         tp_size=tp_group.world_size,
@@ -3437,3 +3453,84 @@ def monkey_patch_vllm_parallel_state(reverse: bool = False):
         setattr(vllm_parallel_state, "get_pp_group", get_pp_group)
         setattr(vllm_parallel_state, "get_tp_group", get_tp_group)
         setattr(vllm_parallel_state, "get_world_group", get_world_group)
+
+
+# --- deprecation ---------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# These getters are the definition of a name, not a second spelling of it.
+# Business code asks `get_parallel()`, which answers by calling them and which
+# a scope can redirect; a call that arrives here directly cannot be redirected,
+# so a draft worker's scope does not reach it. The package that defines them
+# keeps calling them -- a read there would go through the context back into
+# itself -- so the warning fires only for callers outside it, and once per
+# name, because the point is to name the replacement rather than to fill a log.
+_EXEMPT_CALLERS = ("sglang.srt.distributed.",)
+
+# Which context name each getter here answers. The shim's own bookkeeping --
+# what a getter was replaced by is of no interest to whoever declares the field
+# -- so it is written next to the warning that uses it.
+_CONTEXT_NAME_OF = {
+    "get_world_group": "world_group",
+    "get_tp_group": "tp_group",
+    "get_pp_group": "pp_group",
+    "get_moe_ep_group": "moe_ep_group",
+    "get_moe_dp_group": "moe_dp_group",
+    "get_moe_tp_group": "moe_tp_group",
+    "get_attn_tp_group": "attn_tp_group",
+    "get_attn_cp_group": "attn_cp_group",
+    "get_shared_experts_tp_group": "shared_experts_tp_group",
+    "get_dcp_group": "dcp_group",
+    "get_world_size": "launch_world_size",
+    "get_world_rank": "launch_world_rank",
+    "get_tensor_model_parallel_rank": "tp_rank",
+    "get_pipeline_model_parallel_rank": "pp_rank",
+    "get_moe_expert_parallel_rank": "moe_ep_rank",
+    "get_moe_data_parallel_rank": "moe_dp_rank",
+    "get_moe_tensor_parallel_rank": "moe_tp_rank",
+    "get_attn_tensor_model_parallel_rank": "attn_tp_rank",
+    "get_attn_context_model_parallel_rank": "attn_cp_rank",
+    "get_dcp_rank": "dcp_rank",
+}
+# The width getters read a built group; the context answers the same names from
+# the configuration. Those are one answer rather than two only for the groups
+# the build checks against the configuration -- `_WIDTH_AND_GROUP` in
+# `runtime_context` -- so only those are listed here. `moe_dp`, `moe_tp` and
+# `dcp` are not on that list and are deliberately absent: the MoE-DP group is
+# the attention-CP group when the latter is wider, and the other two are simply
+# not pinned yet.
+_CONTEXT_NAME_OF["get_tensor_model_parallel_world_size"] = "tp_size"
+_CONTEXT_NAME_OF["get_attn_tensor_model_parallel_world_size"] = "attn_tp_size"
+_CONTEXT_NAME_OF["get_attn_context_model_parallel_world_size"] = "attn_cp_size"
+_CONTEXT_NAME_OF["get_pipeline_model_parallel_world_size"] = "pp_size"
+_CONTEXT_NAME_OF["get_moe_expert_parallel_world_size"] = "moe_ep_size"
+
+_ALREADY_WARNED: set = set()
+
+
+def _warn_if_called_from_outside(name: str, replacement: str):
+    def decorate(fn):
+        @functools.wraps(fn)
+        def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
+            if name not in _ALREADY_WARNED:
+                caller = sys._getframe(1).f_globals.get("__name__", "")
+                if not caller.startswith(_EXEMPT_CALLERS):
+                    _ALREADY_WARNED.add(name)
+                    warnings.warn(
+                        f"{name}() is deprecated; read "
+                        f"get_parallel().{replacement} instead, which answers the "
+                        "same thing and can be redirected by a scope",
+                        DeprecationWarning,
+                        stacklevel=2,
+                    )
+            return fn(*args, **kwargs)
+
+        return wrapper
+
+    return decorate
+
+
+for _name, _replacement in _CONTEXT_NAME_OF.items():
+    _fn = globals().get(_name)
+    if _fn is not None:
+        globals()[_name] = _warn_if_called_from_outside(_name, _replacement)(_fn)
+del _name, _replacement, _fn
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/mem_cache/pool_host/base.py b/python/sglang/srt/mem_cache/pool_host/base.py
index 6d3418193..924429484 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/mem_cache/pool_host/base.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/mem_cache/pool_host/base.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def ranks_per_host() -> int:
         return 1
     try:
         launch_world_size = get_parallel().launch_world_size
-    except AssertionError:
+    except (RuntimeError, ValueError):
         return 1
     if launch_world_size == 1:
         return 1
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ def sync_fixed_hicache_size(size: int, host_size: int) -> int:
         from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_parallel
 
         pp_group = get_parallel().pp_group
-    except AssertionError:
+    except RuntimeError:
         return size
 
     if pp_group.world_size <= 1:
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/model_executor/runner/decode_cuda_graph_runner.py b/python/sglang/srt/model_executor/runner/decode_cuda_graph_runner.py
index b5dda425f..076ba0c2e 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/model_executor/runner/decode_cuda_graph_runner.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/model_executor/runner/decode_cuda_graph_runner.py
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ from sglang.srt.compilation import torch_compile_decoration
 from sglang.srt.compilation.torch_compile_decoration import set_torch_compile_config
 from sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state import (
     graph_capture,
-    set_pdmux_status,
 )
 from sglang.srt.dllm.config import DllmConfig
 from sglang.srt.environ import envs
@@ -1053,7 +1052,6 @@ class DecodeCudaGraphRunner(BaseCudaGraphRunner):
                     with self.backend.capture_session(self.stream):
                         self._capture_one_stream()
             else:
-                set_pdmux_status(False)
                 for i, sg in enumerate(self.stream_groups):
                     with (
                         graph_capture(stream=sg[1]) as graph_capture_context,
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/model_loader/loader.py b/python/sglang/srt/model_loader/loader.py
index 71ecd9ac5..31f26a33b 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/model_loader/loader.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/model_loader/loader.py
@@ -2073,7 +2073,7 @@ class PreshardedModelLoader(DefaultModelLoader):
         try:
             g = get_parallel().world_group
             return g.rank_in_group, g.world_size
-        except (AssertionError, AttributeError):
+        except (AssertionError, AttributeError, RuntimeError):
             return 0, 1
 
     @staticmethod
@@ -2082,7 +2082,7 @@ class PreshardedModelLoader(DefaultModelLoader):
 
         try:
             get_parallel().world_group.barrier()
-        except (AssertionError, AttributeError):
+        except (AssertionError, AttributeError, RuntimeError):
             pass
 
     @staticmethod
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/models/gigachat35.py b/python/sglang/srt/models/gigachat35.py
index 724791800..0fa4c460d 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/models/gigachat35.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/models/gigachat35.py
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ from transformers import PretrainedConfig
 
 import sglang.srt.models.deepseek_v2 as deepseek_v2
 from sglang.srt.configs.gigachat35 import GigaChat35Config
-from sglang.srt.distributed import get_pp_group
 from sglang.srt.layers.communicator import get_attn_tp_context
 from sglang.srt.layers.layernorm import GemmaRMSNorm, RMSNorm
 from sglang.srt.layers.linear import ColumnParallelLinear
@@ -515,7 +514,7 @@ class GigaChat35Model(nn.Module):
         self.config = config
         self.padding_idx = getattr(config, "pad_token_id", None)
         self.vocab_size = config.vocab_size
-        self.pp_group = get_pp_group()
+        self.pp_group = get_parallel().pp_group
 
         if self.pp_group.is_first_rank:
             self.embed_tokens = VocabParallelEmbedding(
@@ -605,7 +604,7 @@ class GigaChat35ForCausalLM(DeepseekV2WeightLoaderMixin, nn.Module):
         nn.Module.__init__(self)
         self.config = config
         self.quant_config = quant_config
-        self.pp_group = get_pp_group()
+        self.pp_group = get_parallel().pp_group
         self.tp_size = get_parallel().tp_size
         self.num_fused_shared_experts = 0
 
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/models/gigachat35_mtp.py b/python/sglang/srt/models/gigachat35_mtp.py
index 77924d7cf..aa3703414 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/models/gigachat35_mtp.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/models/gigachat35_mtp.py
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ from typing import Iterable, Optional
 import torch
 from torch import nn
 
-from sglang.srt.distributed import get_pp_group
 from sglang.srt.layers.logits_processor import LogitsProcessor
 from sglang.srt.layers.quantization.base_config import QuantizationConfig
 from sglang.srt.layers.vocab_parallel_embedding import (
@@ -140,7 +139,7 @@ class GigaChat35ForCausalLMNextN(DeepseekV2WeightLoaderMixin, nn.Module):
         nn.Module.__init__(self)
         self.config = config
         self.quant_config = quant_config
-        self.pp_group = get_pp_group()
+        self.pp_group = get_parallel().pp_group
         self.tp_size = get_parallel().tp_size
         self.num_fused_shared_experts = 0
         self.draft_model_idx = draft_model_idx or 0
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/multiplex/multiplexing_mixin.py b/python/sglang/srt/multiplex/multiplexing_mixin.py
index d2f4024fa..b3c0f4b87 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/multiplex/multiplexing_mixin.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/multiplex/multiplexing_mixin.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import torch
 import torch.distributed as dist
 from torch.cuda.streams import ExternalStream
 
-from sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state import set_pdmux_status
+from sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state import pdmux_prefill_tp_group
 from sglang.srt.model_executor.forward_batch_info import ForwardMode
 from sglang.srt.multiplex.pdmux_context import (
     get_current_stream_idx,
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ from sglang.srt.multiplex.pdmux_context import (
     load_pdmux_config,
     set_current_stream_idx,
 )
-from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_disagg
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_device, get_disagg, get_parallel
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from sglang.srt.managers.schedule_batch import ScheduleBatch
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class SchedulerMultiplexMixin:
 
         # for pd_multiplexing, Init stream_groups, exclude normal stream for prefill only and decode only
         self.pdmux_config = load_pdmux_config(get_disagg().pdmux_config_path)
-        initialize_stream_groups(self.gpu_id, self.pdmux_config)
+        initialize_stream_groups(get_device().gpu_id, self.pdmux_config)
         self.stream_groups = get_stream_groups()
         self.sm_counts = get_sm_counts()
         self.real_sm_group_num = len(self.stream_groups)
@@ -113,12 +113,10 @@ class SchedulerMultiplexMixin:
 
         while True:
             with torch.cuda.stream(decode_stream):
-                set_pdmux_status(False)
                 self.ingest_requests()
                 running_batch = self.running_batch
 
-            with torch.cuda.stream(prefill_stream):
-                set_pdmux_status(True)
+            with torch.cuda.stream(prefill_stream), pdmux_prefill_tp_group():
                 sm_count = self.sm_counts[stream_idx][0]
                 if not wait_prefill_kernel_done:
                     created, running_batch = self.update_split_prefill_batch(
@@ -128,7 +126,6 @@ class SchedulerMultiplexMixin:
                     adjust_stream_group = created or adjust_stream_group
 
             with torch.cuda.stream(decode_stream):
-                set_pdmux_status(False)
                 running_batch = self.update_running_batch(running_batch)
                 self.running_batch = running_batch
                 adjust_stream_group = adjust_stream_group or (
@@ -152,15 +149,13 @@ class SchedulerMultiplexMixin:
                 )
 
             with torch.cuda.stream(decode_stream):
-                set_pdmux_status(False)
                 # process decode batch
                 if running_batch and not running_batch.is_empty():
                     decode_result = self.run_batch(running_batch)
                     decode_done = True
                 else:
                     decode_done = False
-            with torch.cuda.stream(prefill_stream):
-                set_pdmux_status(True)
+            with torch.cuda.stream(prefill_stream), pdmux_prefill_tp_group():
                 if (
                     self.split_prefill_batch
                     and not self.split_prefill_batch.is_empty()
@@ -197,13 +192,11 @@ class SchedulerMultiplexMixin:
                     prefill_done = False
 
             with torch.cuda.stream(decode_stream):
-                set_pdmux_status(False)
                 decode_stream.synchronize()
                 if decode_done:
                     self.process_batch_result(running_batch, decode_result)
 
-            with torch.cuda.stream(prefill_stream):
-                set_pdmux_status(True)
+            with torch.cuda.stream(prefill_stream), pdmux_prefill_tp_group():
                 if prefill_done and self.split_prefill_batch.split_prefill_finished:
                     wait_prefill_kernel_done = True
                     prefill_exe_done_flag = prefill_exe_done.query()
@@ -214,7 +207,7 @@ class SchedulerMultiplexMixin:
                     )
 
                     self.tp_cpu_group.allreduce(flags, dist.ReduceOp.SUM).wait()
-                    if flags.item() == self.tp_size:
+                    if flags.item() == get_parallel().tp_size:
                         self.process_batch_result(
                             self.split_prefill_batch, prefill_result
                         )
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/runtime_context.py b/python/sglang/srt/runtime_context.py
index 81736cabb..da4320175 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/runtime_context.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/runtime_context.py
@@ -110,119 +110,16 @@ def _parallel_config_leaves() -> frozenset:
     )
 
 
-# Ranks and group handles: the names no configuration carries, each with the
-# canonical getter that answers it live. This table is their declaration, the
-# way `arg_groups/fields/parallel.py` is the leaves' and `Derived` is the
-# widths'. `None` marks a name only a stamp can answer: no coordinator knows
-# this process's attention-DP rank.
+# Ranks and group handles: the names no configuration carries. This table is
+# their declaration, the way `arg_groups/fields/parallel.py` is the leaves' and
+# `Derived` is the widths'. A group handle names the getter that owns it,
+# because the module that builds the groups is where it lives; a rank is a
+# position in one of those groups, so it is read off the handle. `None` marks a
+# name only a stamp can answer: no coordinator knows this process's
+# attention-DP rank.
 _MISSING_READ = object()
 
 
-class Live(msgspec.Struct, frozen=True):
-    """How a rank / group / world width is answered, and what it means.
-
-    `source` is the canonical getter's name in `parallel_state`, a callable
-    taking the context, or `None` for a name only a stamp can answer.
-
-    Most entries in the table below are a bare getter name: a rank or a group
-    handle is its own explanation. This shape is for a name whose meaning is
-    not in its getter, and it carries the prose with the declaration rather
-    than in a second table keyed by the same names.
-    """
-
-    source: Any = None
-    doc: str = ""
-    # For a stamp-only name (`source=None`): what a reader should be told when
-    # nothing has stamped it. These names have no fallback by construction, so
-    # the message is the only thing pointing at what did not happen.
-    unstamped: str = ""
-
-
-_LIVE_READS: dict = {
-    # Two widths of the WORLD group: what it was built at, and what it has
-    # room for. Both are properties of the group itself. How much of that room
-    # is currently serving is elastic-EP state, owned by `ElasticEPStateManager`
-    # and asked of it directly -- a width that lives somewhere else does not
-    # become a WORLD fact by being readable from here.
-    "launch_world_size": Live(
-        source="get_world_size",
-        doc=(
-            "Width the WORLD group was built at: `len(ranks)`, frozen when the "
-            "coordinator was constructed. What every startup reader wants -- "
-            "memory accounting, KV cache sizing, graph capture, weight loading "
-            "-- and what a scale-up leaves behind rather than updates."
-        ),
-    ),
-    "max_world_size": Live(
-        source=lambda self: self.max_ep_size or self.launch_world_size,
-        doc=(
-            "Ranks the WORLD group has room for: `--max-ep-size` when it is "
-            "set, otherwise the launch width. This is the ceiling the process "
-            "group was pre-allocated to -- mooncake sizes its active-rank mask "
-            "to it -- which is why `init_distributed_environment` takes it "
-            "under this name. Whether the group can grow at all is a separate "
-            "question, answered by the leaf being set rather than by this width."
-        ),
-    ),
-    "launch_world_rank": Live(
-        source="get_world_rank",
-        doc=(
-            "This process's rank in the WORLD group as built. Frozen with the "
-            "coordinator, exactly like `launch_world_size`, and named for the "
-            "same reason: a scale-up does not renumber it."
-        ),
-    ),
-    "tp_rank": "get_tensor_model_parallel_rank",
-    "pp_rank": "get_pipeline_model_parallel_rank",
-    "moe_ep_rank": "get_moe_expert_parallel_rank",
-    "moe_dp_rank": "get_moe_data_parallel_rank",
-    "moe_tp_rank": "get_moe_tensor_parallel_rank",
-    "attn_tp_rank": "get_attn_tensor_model_parallel_rank",
-    "attn_cp_rank": "get_attn_context_model_parallel_rank",
-    "dcp_rank": "get_dcp_rank",
-    "attn_dcp_rank": lambda self: self.dcp_rank if self.dcp_enabled else 0,
-    "attn_dp_rank": Live(
-        source=None,
-        doc=(
-            "This process's index in the attention-DP group. Computed from "
-            "`tp_rank` when the attention topology is initialized, and moved "
-            "by an elastic scale-up, so no coordinator can answer it."
-        ),
-        unstamped=(
-            "it is computed from this process's `tp_rank` when the attention "
-            "topology is initialized, so a process that never ran "
-            "`initialize_dp_attention` has no answer to give"
-        ),
-    ),
-    "dp_rank": Live(
-        source=None,
-        doc=(
-            "Which data-parallel replica this process serves, as the data "
-            "parallel controller numbered them at spawn. `None` when there is "
-            "no controller. Unlike `attn_dp_rank` and `moe_dp_rank` it is not "
-            "a position in any process group -- no group has one member per "
-            "replica -- which is why nothing can derive it and the spawn "
-            "states it instead."
-        ),
-        unstamped=(
-            "it is a spawn identity, handed to `publish(..., ranks=...)` by "
-            "the process entry; a process that published without a rank "
-            "bundle has no replica index to report"
-        ),
-    ),
-    "world_group": "get_world_group",
-    "tp_group": "get_tp_group",
-    "pp_group": "get_pp_group",
-    "moe_ep_group": "get_moe_ep_group",
-    "moe_dp_group": "get_moe_dp_group",
-    "moe_tp_group": "get_moe_tp_group",
-    "attn_tp_group": "get_attn_tp_group",
-    "attn_cp_group": "get_attn_cp_group",
-    "shared_experts_tp_group": "get_shared_experts_tp_group",
-    "dcp_group": "get_dcp_group",
-}
-
-
 @functools.lru_cache(maxsize=1)
 def _parallel_fields() -> frozenset:
     """Every name `ParallelContext` answers for, read from the declarations.
@@ -232,8 +129,8 @@ def _parallel_fields() -> frozenset:
 
     * configured leaves -- the `parallel` namespace of the record;
     * derived widths -- the `Derived` declarations beside those leaves;
-    * ranks and group handles -- `_LIVE_READS`, which is where they are
-      declared because no configuration carries them.
+    * ranks and group handles -- declared beside the leaves with no `fn`,
+      because nothing computes them; they are written at runtime.
 
     The set is the union of those three, so `override()` cannot refuse a name
     the class answers for.
@@ -244,7 +141,7 @@ def _parallel_fields() -> frozenset:
     derived = {
         name for name, decl in vars(Parallel).items() if isinstance(decl, Derived)
     }
-    return frozenset(_parallel_config_leaves() | derived | set(_LIVE_READS))
+    return frozenset(_parallel_config_leaves() | derived)
 
 
 def derive_attention_widths(
@@ -331,6 +228,7 @@ def derive_spawn_ranks(
             % (tp_size // moe_dp_size)
             // (tp_size // moe_dp_size // moe_ep_size)
         ),
+        "moe_tp_rank": tp_rank % (tp_size // moe_dp_size // moe_ep_size),
     }
 
 
@@ -404,6 +302,24 @@ def parallel_widths_of(cfg: Any) -> dict:
     )
 
 
+def launch_world_size_of(cfg: Any):
+    """`launch_world_size`, computed at publish.
+
+    The width `bootstrap` builds the WORLD at: one rank per pipeline stage of
+    each tensor-parallel group, above the offset a scale joiner comes in at --
+    zero for everyone else, which is the convention `spawn_world_rank` uses for
+    the same arithmetic. A scale-up does not move it, which is the point of the
+    name.
+    """
+    return cfg.ep_join_rank_offset + cfg.tp_size * cfg.pp_size
+
+
+def max_world_size_of(cfg: Any):
+    """`max_world_size`, computed at publish. The ceiling the group is
+    pre-allocated to: `--max-ep-size` when set, otherwise the launch width."""
+    return cfg.max_ep_size or launch_world_size_of(cfg)
+
+
 def attn_tp_size_of(cfg: Any):
     """`attn_tp_size`, computed at publish. See `parallel_widths_of`."""
     return parallel_widths_of(cfg)["attn_tp_size"]
@@ -586,24 +502,22 @@ def _validate_parallel(parallel, source: str) -> None:
 class ParallelContext:
     """Parallel-topology namespace: one spelling per name.
 
-    Ranks and group handles are read-through ``@property`` over the canonical
-    getters, so they answer with the **live** process groups and raise before
-    distributed init. Every other name — ``tp_size`` and its size siblings
-    included, alongside config-only leaves such as ``nccl_port`` — is answered
-    from the published ``parallel`` bag, in any process at any point after
-    publish.
+    Every name is answered by a lookup, never by asking a process group. A
+    configured leaf and a width derived from one come off the published
+    ``parallel`` bag; a rank is written by ``publish`` from the spawn bundle,
+    and a group handle by ``initialize_model_parallel`` as it builds them. A
+    read before the write that answers it says which write is missing rather
+    than deriving a number from whatever is installed -- the two answer
+    different questions, and a plausible wrong rank surfaces as a hang in a
+    collective far from here.
 
-    A size is read from the configuration because the groups are built at
-    exactly the configured widths. Two things do not follow that rule and are
-    asked of the group itself: ``initialize_model_parallel`` aliases ``_MOE_DP``
-    to ``_ATTN_CP`` when ``attn_cp_size > moe_dp_size``, so a reader that means
-    the MoE communicator's width calls ``get_moe_cp_size()``; and
-    ``patch_tensor_parallel_group`` runs a scope under a different TP group,
-    which it declares by overriding ``tp_size``, ``tp_rank`` and ``tp_group``
-    for its duration. Elastic EP is a third case, and it needs no rule here: it
-    scales ``ep_size`` / ``dp_size`` on the published bag while the group
-    coordinators keep the width they were constructed with, so the two are
-    different names rather than two answers to one name.
+    That makes a scope a matter of stating names: ``patch_tensor_parallel_group``
+    runs a draft worker under a different TP group by overriding the members it
+    changes, and PD multiplexing points ``tp_group`` at the prefill
+    communicator the same way. Elastic EP needs no rule at all: it scales
+    ``ep_size`` / ``dp_size`` on the published bag while ``launch_world_size``
+    keeps the width the groups were built at, so the two are different names
+    rather than two answers to one name.
     """
 
     __slots__ = ("_overrides", "_stamp", "_config")
@@ -624,10 +538,9 @@ class ParallelContext:
     def _read(self, name):
         """The one read path, for every kind of name in the namespace.
 
-        Scoped override, then the permanent stamp, then what the name is
-        answered by when nobody has stated it: the published leaf for a
-        configured value or a derived width, the canonical getter for a rank
-        or a group handle.
+        Scoped override, then the permanent stamp, then the published bag.
+        A rank or a group handle is on no bag, so once those three are out the
+        name has not been written yet and the read says so.
 
         The two override maps stay separate because they are taken down by
         different things -- a `with` block and `clear_stamp()` -- and
@@ -643,21 +556,17 @@ class ParallelContext:
         config = self._config
         if config is not None and name in config._fields:
             return getattr(config, name)
-        live = _LIVE_READS.get(name, _MISSING_READ)
-        if live is not _MISSING_READ:
-            source = live.source if isinstance(live, Live) else live
-            if isinstance(source, str):
-                return getattr(_ps(), source)()
-            if source is not None:
-                return source(self)
-            why = live.unstamped if isinstance(live, Live) else ""
-            raise RuntimeError(
-                f"parallel name {name!r} is not available: "
-                + (why or "nothing has stamped it in this process")
-            )
         if config is None and name in _parallel_config_leaves():
             raise ValueError("config namespace 'parallel' not published")
-        if name in _derived_widths():
+        declared = _derived_widths().get(name)
+        if declared is not None and not declared.fn:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"parallel name {name!r} has not been written in this process. "
+                + declared.doc
+                + f" Write it by publishing a rank bundle or building the groups, "
+                f"or state it with get_parallel().override({name}=...)"
+            )
+        if declared is not None:
             raise RuntimeError(
                 f"derived parallel width {name!r} is not available: it is computed "
                 "from the configured leaves at publish, and permanently corrected "
@@ -731,33 +640,24 @@ def _derived_widths() -> dict:
 def _install_parallel_properties() -> None:
     """Give `ParallelContext` a property per name that is not a config leaf.
 
-    The quotients are declared in `arg_groups/fields/parallel.py`, beside the
-    leaves they are computed from; the ranks and group handles are declared in
-    `_LIVE_READS`, because no configuration carries them. Properties rather
-    than names left to `__getattr__` because the class surface is what the
-    guards introspect -- `hasattr(ParallelContext, "tp_group")` and
-    `vars(ParallelContext)` are how the tests check the set from the class
-    side -- and because each one carries its `Derived.doc`.
+    Every name the namespace answers that is not a plain leaf: the quotients,
+    and the ranks and group handles declared beside them with no `fn`.
+
+    Properties rather than names left to `__getattr__` because the class
+    surface is what the guards introspect -- `hasattr(ParallelContext,
+    "tp_size")` and `vars(ParallelContext)` are how the tests read the set from
+    the class side -- and because each one carries its `Derived.doc`.
 
     Every one of them resolves through `_read`, so there is a single priority
     chain rather than one per kind of name.
     """
-    docs = {name: decl.doc for name, decl in _derived_widths().items()}
-    docs.update(
-        {
-            name: live.doc
-            for name, live in _LIVE_READS.items()
-            if isinstance(live, Live) and live.doc
-        }
-    )
-
-    for name in list(_derived_widths()) + list(_LIVE_READS):
+    for name, decl in _derived_widths().items():
 
         def getter(self, _name=name):
             return self._read(_name)
 
         getter.__name__ = name
-        getter.__doc__ = docs.get(name)
+        getter.__doc__ = decl.doc
         setattr(ParallelContext, name, property(getter))
 
 
@@ -1912,6 +1812,12 @@ def publish(
             ),
         )
     _CONTEXT._publish_role = role
+    # Zero for every process when decode context parallelism is off, which is a
+    # fact about the configuration and not about the spawn -- so it answers
+    # without a rank bundle, the way it did when it stood for a group that was
+    # never built. With DCP on it is a position, and the bundle below states it.
+    if not _CONTEXT.parallel.dcp_enabled:
+        _CONTEXT.parallel.override_permanently(attn_dcp_rank=0)
     if ranks is not None and ranks.gpu_id is not None:
         _CONTEXT.override("spawn", gpu_id=ranks.gpu_id)
     if ranks is not None:
@@ -1931,18 +1837,25 @@ def publish(
             moe_dp_size=parallel.moe_dp_size,
             moe_ep_size=parallel.moe_ep_size,
         )
-        # `moe_dp_rank` is a different quantity when the MoE-DP group is
-        # aliased to the attention-CP one: the group answers the CP index,
-        # while this computes the MoE-DP index. Leave it to the group there, so
-        # one name does not mean two things.
+        # `initialize_model_parallel` aliases the MoE-DP group to the
+        # attention-CP one when the CP dimension is the wider of the two, so
+        # this process's place in it is its CP index rather than the MoE-DP
+        # index the arithmetic above gives.
         if parallel.moe_dp_size < parallel.attn_cp_size:
-            placement.pop("moe_dp_rank")
+            placement["moe_dp_rank"] = placement["attn_cp_rank"]
         # `dp_rank` is recorded whatever it is, None included: replicas are
         # separate WORLD groups, so no rank implies it and `None` is the answer
         # "no controller" rather than an absence.
         placement["dp_rank"] = ranks.dp_rank
         placement["launch_world_rank"] = ranks.world_rank
         placement.update(_attention_ranks(parallel, placement["tp_rank"]))
+        # A DCP group is a contiguous slice of a TP group, so this process's
+        # place in one is its TP rank folded by that width. `attn_dcp_rank` is
+        # the same number, and zero where decode context parallelism is off, so
+        # a reader does not have to ask whether it is on first.
+        if parallel.dcp_enabled:
+            placement["dcp_rank"] = placement["tp_rank"] % parallel.dcp_size
+        placement["attn_dcp_rank"] = placement.get("dcp_rank", 0)
         # One stamp, not two: the identities are checked on every write, and a
         # half-placed process satisfies none of them.
         parallel.override_permanently(**placement)
diff --git a/python/sglang/test/kits/attention_unittest/attention_methods/dense_attention.py b/python/sglang/test/kits/attention_unittest/attention_methods/dense_attention.py
index 9cbbfad9b..d26824efd 100644
--- a/python/sglang/test/kits/attention_unittest/attention_methods/dense_attention.py
+++ b/python/sglang/test/kits/attention_unittest/attention_methods/dense_attention.py
@@ -24,8 +24,11 @@ from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_context, get_parallel
 from sglang.srt.speculative.spec_info import SpeculativeAlgorithm
 
 # Unit tests run without distributed initialization. Backends that size buffers by
-# attention tensor-parallel degree should see the single-rank default.
-_parallel_override = get_parallel().override(attn_tp_size=1)
+# attention tensor-parallel degree should see the single-rank default, and a
+# backend that places itself in the decode context-parallel group needs a
+# position: nothing publishes here, so there is no configuration to derive the
+# zero these tests run at from.
+_parallel_override = get_parallel().override(attn_tp_size=1, attn_dcp_rank=0)
 _parallel_override.__enter__()
 
 DEFAULT_HEAD_DIM = 16
diff --git a/python/sglang/test/test_utils.py b/python/sglang/test/test_utils.py
index aae6098b0..dac26d3e1 100644
--- a/python/sglang/test/test_utils.py
+++ b/python/sglang/test/test_utils.py
@@ -2095,7 +2095,13 @@ def publish_build_topology(*, world_rank: int = 0, **server_args_fields):
     build outlive any block, so the configuration describing them has to as
     well. Callers that tear the groups down are already resetting the process.
     """
-    from sglang.srt.runtime_context import SpawnRanks, publish, reset_context
+    from sglang.srt.distributed import parallel_state
+    from sglang.srt.runtime_context import (
+        SpawnRanks,
+        get_parallel,
+        publish,
+        reset_context,
+    )
     from sglang.srt.server_args import ServerArgs
 
     reset_context()
@@ -2104,6 +2110,13 @@ def publish_build_topology(*, world_rank: int = 0, **server_args_fields):
         role="test",
         ranks=SpawnRanks(world_rank=world_rank),
     )
+    # Callers that go on to build groups have already run
+    # `init_distributed_environment`, which states the WORLD group -- and the
+    # build below places every group it creates by reading that back. The reset
+    # above drops it, so hand it over again: publishing a configuration does not
+    # unbuild a process group.
+    if parallel_state._WORLD is not None:
+        get_parallel().override_permanently(world_group=parallel_state._WORLD)
 
 
 _GPU_IDLE_TIMEOUT_SECS = 30.0
diff --git a/test/registered/dcp/test_dcp_layout_unit.py b/test/registered/dcp/test_dcp_layout_unit.py
index a98ad8325..7c63381f2 100644
--- a/test/registered/dcp/test_dcp_layout_unit.py
+++ b/test/registered/dcp/test_dcp_layout_unit.py
@@ -134,7 +134,9 @@ class TestFilterDcpLocalChunkKvIndices(CustomTestCase):
 
     def test_identity_without_dcp(self):
         kv = torch.arange(37)
-        with rc.get_parallel().override(dcp_enabled=False, dcp_size=1, dcp_rank=0):
+        with rc.get_parallel().override(
+            dcp_enabled=False, dcp_size=1, dcp_rank=0, attn_dcp_rank=0
+        ):
             self.assertIs(
                 filter_dcp_local_chunk_kv_indices(
                     kv, torch.tensor([0]), torch.tensor([37])
diff --git a/test/registered/dcp/test_reduce_scatter_along_dim.py b/test/registered/dcp/test_reduce_scatter_along_dim.py
index 481b46dc4..9bc6fa74b 100644
--- a/test/registered/dcp/test_reduce_scatter_along_dim.py
+++ b/test/registered/dcp/test_reduce_scatter_along_dim.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import torch
 import torch.distributed as dist
 
 import sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state as ps
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_parallel
 from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cuda_ci
 
 register_cuda_ci(
@@ -130,6 +131,9 @@ def init_distributed():
         local_rank=local_rank,
         backend="nccl",
     )
+    # The context answers a handle from what was stated on it, not from
+    # this module global, so a rank stood up by hand says so itself.
+    get_parallel().override_permanently(world_group=coord)
 
     cpu_group = coord.cpu_group
     nccl_group = coord.device_group
diff --git a/test/registered/kernels/benchmark/communication/bench_custom_all_reduce.py b/test/registered/kernels/benchmark/communication/bench_custom_all_reduce.py
index d42846f2c..71de22850 100644
--- a/test/registered/kernels/benchmark/communication/bench_custom_all_reduce.py
+++ b/test/registered/kernels/benchmark/communication/bench_custom_all_reduce.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from sglang.kernels.jit.benchmark import marker
 from sglang.kernels.jit.benchmark.utils import get_benchmark_range, multigpu_bench_main
 from sglang.kernels.jit.utils import cache_once, is_arch_support_pdl
 from sglang.kernels.ops.communication.mp import register_comm_cleanup
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_parallel
 from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_amd_ci, register_cuda_ci
 
 register_cuda_ci(
@@ -61,6 +62,9 @@ def _init_cpu_group() -> dist.ProcessGroup:
         local_rank=local_rank,
         backend="nccl",
     )
+    # The context answers a handle from what was stated on it, not from
+    # this module global, so a rank stood up by hand says so itself.
+    get_parallel().override_permanently(world_group=coord)
     atexit.register(dist.destroy_process_group)
     torch.cuda.set_stream(torch.cuda.Stream())
     return coord.cpu_group
diff --git a/test/registered/kernels/benchmark/communication/bench_symm_mem_all_gather.py b/test/registered/kernels/benchmark/communication/bench_symm_mem_all_gather.py
index e2fb7d7aa..4d3e23892 100644
--- a/test/registered/kernels/benchmark/communication/bench_symm_mem_all_gather.py
+++ b/test/registered/kernels/benchmark/communication/bench_symm_mem_all_gather.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ from sglang.srt.distributed.device_communicators.triton_symm_mem_ag import (
     all_gather_inner,
     create_state,
 )
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_parallel
 from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_amd_ci, register_cuda_ci
 
 register_cuda_ci(
@@ -77,6 +78,9 @@ def _init_cpu_group() -> dist.ProcessGroup:
         local_rank=local_rank,
         backend="nccl",
     )
+    # The context answers a handle from what was stated on it, not from
+    # this module global, so a rank stood up by hand says so itself.
+    get_parallel().override_permanently(world_group=ps._WORLD)
     atexit.register(dist.destroy_process_group)
     logging.disable(logging.INFO)
     torch.cuda.set_stream(torch.cuda.Stream())
diff --git a/test/registered/kernels/benchmark/communication/bench_tp_qknorm.py b/test/registered/kernels/benchmark/communication/bench_tp_qknorm.py
index e5f4be66f..0d0452749 100644
--- a/test/registered/kernels/benchmark/communication/bench_tp_qknorm.py
+++ b/test/registered/kernels/benchmark/communication/bench_tp_qknorm.py
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ from sglang.kernels.ops.communication.mp import register_comm_cleanup
 from sglang.srt.distributed.device_communicators.custom_all_reduce_v2 import (
     CustomAllReduceV2,
 )
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_parallel
 from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_amd_ci, register_cuda_ci
 
 register_cuda_ci(
@@ -108,6 +109,9 @@ def _init_cpu_group() -> dist.ProcessGroup:
         local_rank=local_rank,
         backend="nccl",
     )
+    # The context answers a handle from what was stated on it, not from
+    # this module global, so a rank stood up by hand says so itself.
+    get_parallel().override_permanently(world_group=coord)
     atexit.register(dist.destroy_process_group)
     logging.disable(logging.INFO)
     torch.cuda.set_stream(torch.cuda.Stream())
diff --git a/test/registered/kernels/ops/communication/test_custom_all_reduce.py b/test/registered/kernels/ops/communication/test_custom_all_reduce.py
index 7ae2c2366..fd7984128 100644
--- a/test/registered/kernels/ops/communication/test_custom_all_reduce.py
+++ b/test/registered/kernels/ops/communication/test_custom_all_reduce.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ from sglang.kernels.ops.communication.mp import register_comm_cleanup
 from sglang.srt.distributed.device_communicators.custom_all_reduce_v2 import (
     CustomAllReduceV2,
 )
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_parallel
 from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cuda_ci
 from sglang.test.kernels.utils import multigpu_pytest_main
 
@@ -129,6 +130,9 @@ def _init_cpu_group_once() -> dist.ProcessGroup:
         local_rank=local_rank,
         backend="nccl",
     )
+    # The context answers a handle from what was stated on it, not from
+    # this module global, so a rank stood up by hand says so itself.
+    get_parallel().override_permanently(world_group=coord)
     atexit.register(dist.destroy_process_group)
     cpu_group = coord.cpu_group
     assert isinstance(cpu_group, dist.ProcessGroup)
diff --git a/test/registered/kernels/ops/communication/test_symm_mem_all_gather.py b/test/registered/kernels/ops/communication/test_symm_mem_all_gather.py
index 5cdd16470..2a2f48d5e 100644
--- a/test/registered/kernels/ops/communication/test_symm_mem_all_gather.py
+++ b/test/registered/kernels/ops/communication/test_symm_mem_all_gather.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ from sglang.srt.distributed.device_communicators.triton_symm_mem_ag import (
     all_gather_inner,
     create_state,
 )
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_parallel
 from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cuda_ci
 from sglang.test.kernels.utils import multigpu_pytest_main
 
@@ -70,6 +71,9 @@ def _init_cpu_group_once() -> dist.ProcessGroup:
         local_rank=local_rank,
         backend="nccl",
     )
+    # The context answers a handle from what was stated on it, not from
+    # this module global, so a rank stood up by hand says so itself.
+    get_parallel().override_permanently(world_group=ps._WORLD)
     atexit.register(dist.destroy_process_group)
     logging.disable(logging.INFO)
     torch.cuda.set_stream(torch.cuda.Stream())
diff --git a/test/registered/kernels/ops/communication/test_tp_qknorm.py b/test/registered/kernels/ops/communication/test_tp_qknorm.py
index 712c24ecd..a70c6b211 100644
--- a/test/registered/kernels/ops/communication/test_tp_qknorm.py
+++ b/test/registered/kernels/ops/communication/test_tp_qknorm.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ from sglang.kernels.ops.communication.mp import register_comm_cleanup
 from sglang.srt.distributed.device_communicators.custom_all_reduce_v2 import (
     CustomAllReduceV2,
 )
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_parallel
 from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cuda_ci
 from sglang.test.kernels.utils import multigpu_pytest_main
 
@@ -92,6 +93,9 @@ def _init_cpu_group_once() -> dist.ProcessGroup:
         local_rank=local_rank,
         backend="nccl",
     )
+    # The context answers a handle from what was stated on it, not from
+    # this module global, so a rank stood up by hand says so itself.
+    get_parallel().override_permanently(world_group=coord)
     atexit.register(dist.destroy_process_group)
     cpu_group = coord.cpu_group
     assert isinstance(cpu_group, dist.ProcessGroup)
diff --git a/test/registered/kernels/ops/kimi_k3/test_ar_fusion.py b/test/registered/kernels/ops/kimi_k3/test_ar_fusion.py
index 0bbcadd5a..229bad61d 100644
--- a/test/registered/kernels/ops/kimi_k3/test_ar_fusion.py
+++ b/test/registered/kernels/ops/kimi_k3/test_ar_fusion.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ from sglang.kernels.ops.kimi_k3 import all_reduce
 from sglang.srt.distributed.device_communicators.custom_all_reduce_v2 import (
     CustomAllReduceV2,
 )
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_parallel
 from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cuda_ci
 from sglang.test.kernels.utils import multigpu_pytest_main
 
@@ -65,6 +66,9 @@ def _init_world():
         local_rank=local_rank,
         backend="nccl",
     )
+    # The context answers a handle from what was stated on it, not from
+    # this module global, so a rank stood up by hand says so itself.
+    get_parallel().override_permanently(world_group=coord)
     atexit.register(dist.destroy_process_group)
     logging.disable(logging.INFO)
     torch.cuda.set_stream(torch.cuda.Stream())
diff --git a/test/registered/kernels/ops/kimi_k3/test_collectives.py b/test/registered/kernels/ops/kimi_k3/test_collectives.py
index dc286d3b7..1ccb32fb9 100644
--- a/test/registered/kernels/ops/kimi_k3/test_collectives.py
+++ b/test/registered/kernels/ops/kimi_k3/test_collectives.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ from sglang.kernels.ops.kimi_k3 import (
 from sglang.srt.distributed.device_communicators.custom_all_reduce_v2 import (
     CustomAllReduceV2,
 )
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_parallel
 from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cuda_ci
 from sglang.test.kernels.utils import multigpu_pytest_main
 
@@ -53,6 +54,9 @@ def _init_world():
         local_rank=local_rank,
         backend="nccl",
     )
+    # The context answers a handle from what was stated on it, not from
+    # this module global, so a rank stood up by hand says so itself.
+    get_parallel().override_permanently(world_group=coord)
     atexit.register(dist.destroy_process_group)
     cpu_group = coord.cpu_group
     assert isinstance(cpu_group, dist.ProcessGroup)
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/disaggregation/test_encode_server.py b/test/registered/unit/disaggregation/test_encode_server.py
index 757dbfb39..6f0c093db 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/disaggregation/test_encode_server.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/disaggregation/test_encode_server.py
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ from sglang.srt.mem_cache.multimodal_cache import (
     EmbeddingResult,
     MultiModalStaticCache,
 )
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_parallel
 from sglang.srt.utils.common import safe_pickle_loads
 from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cpu_ci
 from sglang.test.test_utils import CustomTestCase
@@ -1011,10 +1012,7 @@ class TestEncoderDelivery(CustomTestCase):
                 statuses[1].copy_(torch.tensor([400, 1, 0, 0]))
 
             with (
-                patch(
-                    "sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state.get_tp_group",
-                    return_value=TPGroup(),
-                ),
+                get_parallel().override(tp_group=TPGroup()),
                 patch(
                     "sglang.srt.disaggregation.encoder.server.torch.distributed.all_gather",
                     side_effect=all_gather,
@@ -1051,10 +1049,7 @@ class TestEncoderDelivery(CustomTestCase):
                 statuses[1][2] += 1
 
             with (
-                patch(
-                    "sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state.get_tp_group",
-                    return_value=TPGroup(),
-                ),
+                get_parallel().override(tp_group=TPGroup()),
                 patch(
                     "sglang.srt.disaggregation.encoder.server.torch.distributed.all_gather",
                     side_effect=all_gather,
@@ -1095,10 +1090,7 @@ class TestEncoderDelivery(CustomTestCase):
                 statuses[1].copy_(local_status)
 
             with (
-                patch(
-                    "sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state.get_tp_group",
-                    return_value=TPGroup(),
-                ),
+                get_parallel().override(tp_group=TPGroup()),
                 patch(
                     "sglang.srt.disaggregation.encoder.server.torch.distributed.all_gather",
                     side_effect=all_gather,
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/disaggregation/test_register_to_bootstrap.py b/test/registered/unit/disaggregation/test_register_to_bootstrap.py
index 196a5cafe..c7692cbac 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/disaggregation/test_register_to_bootstrap.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/disaggregation/test_register_to_bootstrap.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import unittest
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock, call, patch
 
 from sglang.srt.environ import envs
-from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_context
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_context, get_parallel
 from sglang.test.test_utils import CustomTestCase
 
 
@@ -201,12 +201,12 @@ class TestRegisterToBootstrap(CustomTestCase):
         self.assertIn("10.0.0.1", url_used)
 
     @patch("sglang.srt.disaggregation.common.conn.requests.put")
-    # The consumer reads the group through `get_parallel()`, which reads
-    # through to the canonical getter, so that is where the stub belongs.
-    @patch("sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state.get_world_group")
     def test_rust_attention_dp_replicates_complete_topology_across_hosts(
-        self, mock_world_group, mock_put
+        self, mock_put
     ):
+        # The consumer reads the group through `get_parallel()`, so the
+        # stub is stated there rather than in the module the build writes.
+        mock_world_group = MagicMock()
         success_resp = MagicMock()
         success_resp.status_code = 200
         mock_put.return_value = success_resp
@@ -230,9 +230,12 @@ class TestRegisterToBootstrap(CustomTestCase):
                 for dp_rank, tp_rank, host, rank_port, _ in schedulers
             ]
 
-        mock_world_group.return_value.all_gather_object.side_effect = gather_topology
+        mock_world_group.all_gather_object.side_effect = gather_topology
 
-        with envs.SGLANG_RUST_SERVER.override(True):
+        with (
+            get_parallel().override(world_group=mock_world_group),
+            envs.SGLANG_RUST_SERVER.override(True),
+        ):
             for dp_rank, tp_rank, local_ip, _, rust_http_port in schedulers:
                 manager = self._make_manager()
                 manager.attn_dp_size = 2
@@ -277,7 +280,7 @@ class TestRegisterToBootstrap(CustomTestCase):
                     gather_call.args[0]["attn_dp_rank"],
                     gather_call.args[0]["attn_tp_rank"],
                 )
-                for gather_call in mock_world_group.return_value.all_gather_object.call_args_list
+                for gather_call in mock_world_group.all_gather_object.call_args_list
             ],
             [(dp, tp) for dp, tp, _, _, _ in schedulers],
         )
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/layers/attention/test_flashattention_pa_swa_prefill_lens_size.py b/test/registered/unit/layers/attention/test_flashattention_pa_swa_prefill_lens_size.py
index 2094e8c0c..2ecf5011d 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/layers/attention/test_flashattention_pa_swa_prefill_lens_size.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/layers/attention/test_flashattention_pa_swa_prefill_lens_size.py
@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ def _make_prefill_aware_swa_runner(
         page_size=1,
         attn_cp_size=1,
         tp_size=1,
+        # The backend still reads the runner's frozen record for these two;
+        # same single-rank placement, stated where it looks for it.
+        ps=SimpleNamespace(attn_cp_size=1, tp_size=1),
         is_draft_worker=False,
         server_args=server_args,
         attention_chunk_size=None,
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/layers/moe/test_mega_moe_deepgemm_api.py b/test/registered/unit/layers/moe/test_mega_moe_deepgemm_api.py
index e7ca95663..445d567ac 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/layers/moe/test_mega_moe_deepgemm_api.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/layers/moe/test_mega_moe_deepgemm_api.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from sglang.test.test_utils import CustomTestCase, maybe_stub_sgl_kernel
 maybe_stub_sgl_kernel()
 
 from sglang.srt.layers.moe import mega_moe
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_parallel
 
 register_cpu_ci(est_time=8, suite="base-a-test-cpu")
 
@@ -271,11 +272,8 @@ class TestDeepGemmMegaMoeApi(CustomTestCase):
                 "init_new",
                 return_value=object(),
             ),
-            patch(
-                "sglang.srt.runtime_context.get_parallel",
-                return_value=SimpleNamespace(
-                    moe_ep_group=SimpleNamespace(device_group=object())
-                ),
+            get_parallel().override(
+                moe_ep_group=SimpleNamespace(device_group=object())
             ),
         ):
             mega_moe._run_mega_routed(
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/managers/test_disagg_idle_step_counters.py b/test/registered/unit/managers/test_disagg_idle_step_counters.py
index d6aa44aa4..8764e4f97 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/managers/test_disagg_idle_step_counters.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/managers/test_disagg_idle_step_counters.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ from unittest.mock import Mock, patch
 
 from parameterized import parameterized
 
+from sglang.srt.distributed import parallel_state
 from sglang.srt.managers import scheduler as scheduler_module
 from sglang.srt.managers.schedule_batch import ScheduleBatch
 from sglang.srt.managers.scheduler import Scheduler
@@ -168,12 +169,21 @@ class TestSchedulerIdleStepCounters(CustomTestCase):
                 )
                 with (
                     patch(f"{PDMUX_MODULE}.get_current_stream_idx", return_value=0),
-                    patch(f"{PDMUX_MODULE}.set_pdmux_status"),
                     patch(f"{PDMUX_MODULE}.torch.cuda.empty_cache"),
                     patch(
                         f"{PDMUX_MODULE}.torch.cuda.stream",
                         side_effect=lambda stream: nullcontext(),
                     ),
+                    # The prefill section runs under the duplicate communicator
+                    # `--enable-pdmux` builds, in place of the module flag this
+                    # replaces. The loop has no process groups at all, so stand
+                    # one in: the scope refuses to open without it rather than
+                    # letting prefill quietly share the decode communicator.
+                    patch.object(
+                        parallel_state,
+                        "_PDMUX_PREFILL_TP_GROUP",
+                        SimpleNamespace(world_size=1, rank_in_group=0),
+                    ),
                 ):
                     self.run_and_check(
                         scheduler,
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/mem_cache/test_mamba_donated_alloc_ratio.py b/test/registered/unit/mem_cache/test_mamba_donated_alloc_ratio.py
index b684d867f..ce4205096 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/mem_cache/test_mamba_donated_alloc_ratio.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/mem_cache/test_mamba_donated_alloc_ratio.py
@@ -297,7 +297,9 @@ class TestPPMambaPoolSizing(unittest.TestCase):
             server_args=SimpleNamespace(),
             spec_algorithm=SimpleNamespace(is_none=lambda: True),
             layer_info=SimpleNamespace(start_layer=start, end_layer=end),
-            ps=SimpleNamespace(attn_dp_size=1, pp_size=pp_size),
+            # The runner carries its placement as plain attributes.
+            attn_dp_size=1,
+            pp_size=pp_size,
             hybrid_gdn_config=None,
             model_config=SimpleNamespace(
                 hf_config=SimpleNamespace(), num_hidden_layers=cls.TOTAL_LAYERS
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/mem_cache/test_mem_pool_host.py b/test/registered/unit/mem_cache/test_mem_pool_host.py
index 909b8719a..99ec163af 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/mem_cache/test_mem_pool_host.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/mem_cache/test_mem_pool_host.py
@@ -304,16 +304,13 @@ class TestHostMemoryBudget(CustomTestCase):
     def test_ranks_per_host_divides_world_size_by_nodes(self):
         # The launcher slices ranks uniformly across nodes, so the co-located
         # rank count is world_size // nnodes — no hostname collective.
-        fake_group = unittest.mock.Mock(world_size=16)
+        # tp_size=16 states the launch width the count divides -- the
+        # published configuration is where ranks_per_host reads it from.
         with (
-            get_context().override_server_args(nnodes=2),
+            get_context().override_server_args(nnodes=2, tp_size=16),
             unittest.mock.patch.object(
                 torch.distributed, "is_initialized", return_value=True
             ),
-            unittest.mock.patch(
-                "sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state.get_world_group",
-                return_value=fake_group,
-            ),
         ):
             self.assertEqual(base.ranks_per_host(), 8)
 
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/mem_cache/test_unified_mla_views.py b/test/registered/unit/mem_cache/test_unified_mla_views.py
index e295fcedb..0c0347327 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/mem_cache/test_unified_mla_views.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/mem_cache/test_unified_mla_views.py
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ class TestUnifiedMLATokenToKVPool(unittest.TestCase):
                     ] = float(layer + 1)
 
                 with (
-                    get_parallel().override(dcp_enabled=False),
+                    get_parallel().override(dcp_enabled=False, attn_dcp_rank=0),
                     mock.patch(
                         "sglang.srt.mem_cache.memory_pool.current_platform.synchronize"
                     ),
@@ -411,7 +411,9 @@ class TestMambaAllocatorCpuCopyIsPhysical(unittest.TestCase):
             _FakeKVCache(pool.max_slots("full")),
             _FakeKVCache(pool.max_slots("mamba")),
         )
-        with get_parallel().override(dcp_enabled=False, attn_dcp_size=1):
+        with get_parallel().override(
+            dcp_enabled=False, attn_dcp_size=1, attn_dcp_rank=0
+        ):
             allocator = UnifiedMambaTokenToKVPoolAllocator(
                 unified_buffer=pool, kvcache=kvcache, device=_DEV, page_size=ps
             )
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/model_executor/runner_utils/test_graph_pool_borrow.py b/test/registered/unit/model_executor/runner_utils/test_graph_pool_borrow.py
index 2d49cb46f..ff120edec 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/model_executor/runner_utils/test_graph_pool_borrow.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/model_executor/runner_utils/test_graph_pool_borrow.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ from sglang.srt.model_executor.runner_backend.full_cuda_graph_backend import (
     FullCudaGraphBackend,
 )
 from sglang.srt.model_executor.runner_utils import pool
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_parallel
 from sglang.srt.speculative import dflash_utils, dflash_worker_v2, eagle_utils
 from sglang.srt.speculative.dflash_worker_v2 import DFlashWorkerV2
 from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cuda_ci
@@ -222,12 +223,7 @@ class TestGraphPoolBorrow(CustomTestCase):
                 "sglang.srt.layers.dp_attention.is_dp_attention_enabled",
                 return_value=False,
             ),
-            # `parallel_state`, not the package re-export: a stub on the
-            # re-export is never consulted.
-            patch(
-                "sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state.get_tp_group",
-                return_value=tp_group,
-            ),
+            get_parallel().override(tp_group=tp_group),
             patch(
                 "sglang.kernels.ops.speculative.sampling.tree_speculative_sampling_target_only",
                 side_effect=fake_sampling,
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/model_executor/test_kv_canary_headroom.py b/test/registered/unit/model_executor/test_kv_canary_headroom.py
index 901e6057b..132092ad4 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/model_executor/test_kv_canary_headroom.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/model_executor/test_kv_canary_headroom.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from sglang.srt.model_executor.cuda_graph_config import (
 )
 from sglang.srt.model_executor.model_runner_components import kv_pool_runtime
 from sglang.srt.model_executor.pool_configurator import MemoryPoolConfig
-from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_context
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_context, get_parallel
 from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cpu_ci
 from sglang.test.test_utils import CustomTestCase
 
@@ -60,9 +60,8 @@ class TestCanaryHeadroom(CustomTestCase):
                 ),
             ),
             patch.object(kv_pool_runtime.torch.cuda, "synchronize"),
-            patch(
-                "sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state.get_world_group",
-                return_value=SimpleNamespace(world_size=1, cpu_group=None),
+            get_parallel().override(
+                world_group=SimpleNamespace(world_size=1, cpu_group=None)
             ),
             patch.object(kv_pool_runtime, "get_available_gpu_memory", return_value=20),
             patch.object(kv_pool_runtime, "mambaish_config", return_value=None),
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/model_executor/test_pool_configurator.py b/test/registered/unit/model_executor/test_pool_configurator.py
index 7fbf006f8..5f6f8fd67 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/model_executor/test_pool_configurator.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/model_executor/test_pool_configurator.py
@@ -36,7 +36,11 @@ def mock_cpu_env(kv_size=2, tp_size=1, swa_eviction_interval=4):
 
     with (
         patch("torch._utils._element_size", return_value=kv_size),
-        get_parallel().override(attn_tp_size=tp_size),
+        # A width is a whole topology: state the TP siblings the identities
+        # relate it to, not the attention share alone.
+        get_parallel().override(
+            tp_size=tp_size, attn_tp_size=tp_size, moe_tp_size=tp_size
+        ),
         envs.SGLANG_SWA_EVICTION_INTERVAL.override(swa_eviction_interval),
     ):
         yield
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_modelopt_export.py b/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_modelopt_export.py
index 9f9711ece..25313f282 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_modelopt_export.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_modelopt_export.py
@@ -53,9 +53,7 @@ class TestModelOptExport(unittest.TestCase):
         self.mock_logger.start()
 
         # Mock all distributed functions that might be called
-        self.mock_get_tp_group = patch(
-            "sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state.get_tp_group"
-        )
+        self.mock_get_tp_group = patch("sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state._TP")
         self.mock_get_tp_group.start()
 
         # Mock model parallel initialization check
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_modelopt_loader.py b/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_modelopt_loader.py
index ca2740f26..5bd16c741 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_modelopt_loader.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_modelopt_loader.py
@@ -82,9 +82,7 @@ class TestModelOptModelLoader(CustomTestCase):
         self.mock_logger.start()
 
         # Mock all distributed functions that might be called
-        self.mock_get_tp_group = patch(
-            "sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state.get_tp_group"
-        )
+        self.mock_get_tp_group = patch("sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state._TP")
         self.mock_get_tp_group.start()
 
         # Mock model parallel initialization check
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_prefetch_checkpoints.py b/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_prefetch_checkpoints.py
index 13e992be0..c2f4439d2 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_prefetch_checkpoints.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_prefetch_checkpoints.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ from sglang.srt.model_loader.weight_utils import (
     fastsafetensors_weights_iterator,
     safetensors_weights_iterator,
 )
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_parallel
 from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cpu_ci
 from sglang.test.test_utils import CustomTestCase
 
@@ -237,10 +238,7 @@ class TestPrefetchCheckpoints(CustomTestCase):
             patch("threading.Thread", _InlineThread),
             patch("concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor", _InlineExecutor),
             patch("concurrent.futures.wait", side_effect=_wait_all),
-            patch(
-                "sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state.get_world_group",
-                return_value=FakeWorldGroup(),
-            ),
+            get_parallel().override(world_group=FakeWorldGroup()),
             patch(
                 "sglang.srt.model_loader.weight_utils._prefetch_checkpoint_file",
                 side_effect=lambda path, cancel_event: loaded_paths.append(path),
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_presharded_loader.py b/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_presharded_loader.py
index 527259ee7..f10a44d0d 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_presharded_loader.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_presharded_loader.py
@@ -652,10 +652,7 @@ class TestStructuralSignature(unittest.TestCase):
         # must see the same gathered list and thus the same aggregate.
         fake_group.all_gather_object.side_effect = lambda local: ["sig-pp0", "sig-pp1"]
 
-        with mock.patch(
-            "sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state.get_world_group",
-            return_value=fake_group,
-        ):
+        with get_parallel().override(world_group=fake_group):
             agg_from_rank0 = (
                 PreshardedModelLoader._make_rank_invariant_structural_signature(
                     "sig-pp0"
@@ -673,10 +670,7 @@ class TestStructuralSignature(unittest.TestCase):
             "sig-pp0",
             "sig-pp1-changed",
         ]
-        with mock.patch(
-            "sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state.get_world_group",
-            return_value=fake_group,
-        ):
+        with get_parallel().override(world_group=fake_group):
             agg_changed = (
                 PreshardedModelLoader._make_rank_invariant_structural_signature(
                     "sig-pp0"
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_transformers_fallback.py b/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_transformers_fallback.py
index 9989c1569..36de833ee 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_transformers_fallback.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/model_loader/test_transformers_fallback.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from types import SimpleNamespace
 from unittest.mock import patch
 
 from sglang.srt.models.transformers import TransformersBase
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_parallel
 from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cpu_ci
 from sglang.test.test_utils import CustomTestCase
 
@@ -54,10 +55,9 @@ class TestTransformersFallbackSkipSubstrs(CustomTestCase):
             pass
 
         with (
-            patch(
-                "sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state.get_pp_group",
-                return_value=SimpleNamespace(),
-            ),
+            # `__init__` only stashes the pipeline group, so an empty
+            # stand-in carries it past the read.
+            get_parallel().override(pp_group=SimpleNamespace()),
             patch(
                 "sglang.srt.models.transformers.get_hf_text_config",
                 return_value=SimpleNamespace(),
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/multimodal/test_vit_cuda_graph_runner.py b/test/registered/unit/multimodal/test_vit_cuda_graph_runner.py
index 09a72e4fd..c1c59de38 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/multimodal/test_vit_cuda_graph_runner.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/multimodal/test_vit_cuda_graph_runner.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import sys
 from types import SimpleNamespace
-from unittest.mock import patch
 
 import pytest
 import torch
@@ -13,6 +12,7 @@ from sglang.srt.multimodal.internvl_vit_cuda_graph_runner import (
     InternViTCudaGraphRunner,
 )
 from sglang.srt.multimodal.vit_cuda_graph_runner import ViTCudaGraphRunner
+from sglang.srt.runtime_context import get_parallel
 
 
 class _Block:
@@ -32,12 +32,10 @@ def _runner(*, use_data_parallel: bool) -> ViTCudaGraphRunner:
 
 def test_dp_vit_graph_capture_does_not_enter_tp_communication_capture():
     runner = _runner(use_data_parallel=True)
-    with patch(
-        "sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state.get_tp_group",
-        side_effect=AssertionError("DP capture must be rank-local"),
-    ):
-        with runner._capture_context():
-            pass
+    # No tp_group is stated, so reading one would raise: the DP path must not
+    # ask for the TP group at all.
+    with runner._capture_context():
+        pass
 
 
 def test_non_dp_vit_graph_capture_uses_tp_communication_capture():
@@ -52,9 +50,7 @@ def test_non_dp_vit_graph_capture_uses_tp_communication_capture():
 
     group = SimpleNamespace(ca_comm=SimpleNamespace(capture=lambda: Capture()))
     runner = _runner(use_data_parallel=False)
-    with patch(
-        "sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state.get_tp_group", return_value=group
-    ):
+    with get_parallel().override(tp_group=group):
         with runner._capture_context():
             pass
     assert entered == [True]
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/server_args/test_resolution_declarations.py b/test/registered/unit/server_args/test_resolution_declarations.py
index 132792c7e..8a95bb41d 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/server_args/test_resolution_declarations.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/server_args/test_resolution_declarations.py
@@ -132,18 +132,18 @@ def _stash_overlay(server_args):
 
 
 def _live_topology_leaves():
-    """Names `ParallelContext` serves from the live topology, not the config.
+    """Names `ParallelContext` answers from a runtime write, not the config.
 
-    Read out of `_LIVE_READS`, which is where those names are declared.
-    Inferring them from "did the read raise" is wrong -- it only raises while
-    the process groups are missing, so in a process where an earlier test built
-    them the property answers the *live* size and a leaf check reads it as a
-    config mismatch (`parallel.tp_size: bag=1 resolution=2`). Whether a name is
+    Read off the declarations that carry no `fn`, which is what those are.
+    Inferring them from "did the read raise" is wrong -- it raises only while
+    nothing has written the name, so in a process where an earlier test stated
+    one the property answers that value and a leaf check reads it as a config
+    mismatch (`parallel.tp_size: bag=1 resolution=2`). Whether a name is
     shadowed is a property of the declaration, not of the process.
     """
-    from sglang.srt.runtime_context import _LIVE_READS
+    from sglang.srt.runtime_context import _derived_widths
 
-    return frozenset(_LIVE_READS)
+    return frozenset(n for n, d in _derived_widths().items() if not d.fn)
 
 
 class TestResolutionDeclarations(CustomTestCase):
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/spec/test_dflash_logits.py b/test/registered/unit/spec/test_dflash_logits.py
index 9ebbc9c2e..b01ce6572 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/spec/test_dflash_logits.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/spec/test_dflash_logits.py
@@ -249,6 +249,8 @@ def test_worker_folds_a_gate_admitted_quantized_selector_head(monkeypatch):
         block_size=8,
         selector=object(),
         model_runner=SimpleNamespace(tp_rank=0),
+        # The worker rank-gates its logging on its own frozen record.
+        ps=SimpleNamespace(tp_rank=0),
         draft_model=SimpleNamespace(lm_head=None),
         device="cpu",
         _selector_sampling_enabled=True,
@@ -283,6 +285,8 @@ def test_worker_warns_once_when_selector_sampling_is_disabled(monkeypatch):
         _selector_sampling_enabled=False,
         _warned_sampling_fallback=False,
         model_runner=SimpleNamespace(tp_rank=0),
+        # The worker rank-gates its logging on its own frozen record.
+        ps=SimpleNamespace(tp_rank=0),
     )
     batch = SimpleNamespace(sampling_info=SimpleNamespace(is_all_greedy=False))
 
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/test_runtime_context.py b/test/registered/unit/test_runtime_context.py
index 00c43ba70..fd022d5a5 100644
--- a/test/registered/unit/test_runtime_context.py
+++ b/test/registered/unit/test_runtime_context.py
@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ import os
 import pathlib as _pathlib
 import shutil
 import tempfile
+import types
 import unittest
 import warnings
+from types import SimpleNamespace
 from unittest.mock import patch
 
 import msgspec
@@ -41,7 +43,6 @@ from sglang.srt.runtime_context import (
     RuntimeContext,
     SpawnRanks,
     _FlagGroupBase,
-    _validate_parallel,
     assert_published,
     derive_parallel_widths,
     get_context,
@@ -111,39 +112,58 @@ def _scope_entries_that_say_nothing(paths):
 
 
 _PS = "sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state"
+
+
+def _parallel_state():
+    from sglang.srt.distributed import parallel_state
+
+    return parallel_state
+
+
 _DP = "sglang.srt.layers.dp_attention"
 
-# Ranks and the launch width are asked of the group: they are not implied by
-# anything, so there is nothing to derive them from. The quotients are not
-# here -- `attn_tp_size` and its siblings are functions of the configured
-# leaves, and `TestDerivedWidths` pins them. `attn_dp_rank` is not here either: no group coordinator
-# knows it, so it is stamped when the attention topology is initialized and
-# `TestStampedRanks` is what pins it. The other world width is not here
-# because the group does not know it; `TestTheTwoWorldWidths` pins it.
-SIZE_RANK_DELEGATIONS = [
-    ("launch_world_size", f"{_PS}.get_world_size"),
-    ("launch_world_rank", f"{_PS}.get_world_rank"),
-    ("tp_rank", f"{_PS}.get_tensor_model_parallel_rank"),
-    ("dcp_rank", f"{_PS}.get_dcp_rank"),
-    ("pp_rank", f"{_PS}.get_pipeline_model_parallel_rank"),
-    ("moe_ep_rank", f"{_PS}.get_moe_expert_parallel_rank"),
-    ("moe_dp_rank", f"{_PS}.get_moe_data_parallel_rank"),
-    ("moe_tp_rank", f"{_PS}.get_moe_tensor_parallel_rank"),
-    ("attn_tp_rank", f"{_PS}.get_attn_tensor_model_parallel_rank"),
-    ("attn_cp_rank", f"{_PS}.get_attn_context_model_parallel_rank"),
-]
+#: The groups `initialize_model_parallel` states on the context, by the module
+#: global it builds each one into. WORLD is not among them: it is built and
+#: stated by `init_distributed_environment`, one call earlier.
+GROUP_STAMPS = {
+    "tp_group": "_TP",
+    "dcp_group": "_DCP",
+    "pp_group": "_PP",
+    "moe_ep_group": "_MOE_EP",
+    "moe_dp_group": "_MOE_DP",
+    "moe_tp_group": "_MOE_TP",
+    "attn_tp_group": "_ATTN_TP",
+    "attn_cp_group": "_ATTN_CP",
+    "shared_experts_tp_group": "_SHARED_EXPERTS_TP",
+}
 
-GROUP_DELEGATIONS = [
-    ("world_group", f"{_PS}.get_world_group"),
-    ("tp_group", f"{_PS}.get_tp_group"),
-    ("dcp_group", f"{_PS}.get_dcp_group"),
-    ("pp_group", f"{_PS}.get_pp_group"),
-    ("moe_ep_group", f"{_PS}.get_moe_ep_group"),
-    ("moe_dp_group", f"{_PS}.get_moe_dp_group"),
-    ("moe_tp_group", f"{_PS}.get_moe_tp_group"),
-    ("attn_tp_group", f"{_PS}.get_attn_tp_group"),
-    ("attn_cp_group", f"{_PS}.get_attn_cp_group"),
-]
+
+def _groups_the_build_states() -> dict:
+    """What `initialize_model_parallel` hands the context, read out of its
+    source: `{context name: the module global it passes}`.
+
+    Out of the source because that is the only place the whole set appears at
+    once -- calling the function needs ten live process groups.
+    """
+    import ast
+    import inspect
+    import textwrap
+
+    from sglang.srt.distributed import parallel_state
+
+    body = textwrap.dedent(inspect.getsource(parallel_state.initialize_model_parallel))
+    for node in ast.walk(ast.parse(body)):
+        keys = getattr(node, "keys", None)
+        if (
+            isinstance(node, ast.Dict)
+            and keys
+            and all(
+                isinstance(k, ast.Constant) and str(k.value).endswith("_group")
+                for k in keys
+            )
+        ):
+            return {k.value: v.id for k, v in zip(node.keys, node.values)}
+    raise AssertionError("initialize_model_parallel states no group at all")
 
 
 class TestRuntimeContextSingletons(CustomTestCase):
@@ -171,29 +191,91 @@ class _IsolatedOverrides(CustomTestCase):
         super().tearDown()
 
 
+class TestTheBuildStatesEveryGroup(_IsolatedOverrides):
+    """Nothing derives a group, so one the build forgets to state is a name
+    that answers "not written" for the rest of the process -- and the reader
+    that finds out is a model layer, a long way from here."""
+
+    def test_the_build_states_every_group_the_context_declares(self):
+        from sglang.srt.runtime_context import _parallel_fields
+
+        declared = {name for name in _parallel_fields() if name.endswith("_group")}
+        self.assertEqual(declared, set(GROUP_STAMPS) | {"world_group"})
+
+    def test_the_world_group_is_stated_where_it_is_built(self):
+        """`initialize_model_parallel` places every group it builds by reading
+        `get_world_group().local_rank`, so WORLD has to be answerable before it
+        runs -- one function earlier, where it is constructed."""
+        import ast
+        import inspect
+        import textwrap
+
+        from sglang.srt.distributed import parallel_state
+
+        body = textwrap.dedent(
+            inspect.getsource(parallel_state.init_distributed_environment)
+        )
+        stated = {
+            kw.arg
+            for node in ast.walk(ast.parse(body))
+            if isinstance(node, ast.Call)
+            and isinstance(node.func, ast.Attribute)
+            and node.func.attr == "override_permanently"
+            for kw in node.keywords
+        }
+        self.assertIn("world_group", stated)
+
+    def test_nothing_reads_a_name_this_build_has_not_stated_yet(self):
+        """The stamp is at the end, so a getter called before it answers a name
+        nothing has written -- a crash at startup, in a process no unit test
+        runs. What the function may read is what a *previous* call stated, and
+        that is WORLD alone: a rank belongs to the spawn, and this build does
+        not get to assume the spawn ran first."""
+        import ast
+        import inspect
+        import textwrap
+
+        from sglang.srt.distributed import parallel_state
+
+        body = textwrap.dedent(
+            inspect.getsource(parallel_state.initialize_model_parallel)
+        )
+        read = set()
+        for node in ast.walk(ast.parse(body)):
+            if isinstance(node, ast.Call) and isinstance(node.func, ast.Name):
+                name = parallel_state._CONTEXT_NAME_OF.get(node.func.id)
+                if name is not None:
+                    read.add(name)
+        self.assertTrue(read, "no getter is called here; this proves nothing")
+        self.assertEqual(read - {"world_group"}, set())
+
+    def test_each_group_is_stated_from_the_global_it_was_built_into(self):
+        self.assertEqual(_groups_the_build_states(), GROUP_STAMPS)
+
+    def test_a_dimension_the_configuration_has_not_got_is_left_unstated(self):
+        """`_DCP` is None without decode context parallelism, and every one of
+        these getters has always refused to answer for a group that was never
+        built rather than handing back a None to fail on at the collective."""
+        import ast
+        import inspect
+        import textwrap
+
+        from sglang.srt.distributed import parallel_state
+
+        body = textwrap.dedent(
+            inspect.getsource(parallel_state.initialize_model_parallel)
+        )
+        stamp = next(
+            node
+            for node in ast.walk(ast.parse(body))
+            if isinstance(node, ast.Call)
+            and isinstance(node.func, ast.Attribute)
+            and node.func.attr == "override_permanently"
+        )
+        self.assertIn("is not None", ast.unparse(stamp))
+
+
 class TestParallelDelegation(_IsolatedOverrides):
-    def test_size_rank_delegate_to_canonical_getters(self):
-        # Patch each getter to a distinct sentinel: a miswired attribute would read
-        # a different (unpatched) getter and fail.
-        for i, (attr, target) in enumerate(SIZE_RANK_DELEGATIONS):
-            sentinel = 1000 + i
-            with patch(target, return_value=sentinel):
-                self.assertEqual(
-                    getattr(get_parallel(), attr),
-                    sentinel,
-                    msg=f"{attr} must delegate to {target}",
-                )
-
-    def test_groups_delegate_to_canonical_getters(self):
-        for attr, target in GROUP_DELEGATIONS:
-            sentinel = object()
-            with patch(target, return_value=sentinel):
-                self.assertIs(
-                    getattr(get_parallel(), attr),
-                    sentinel,
-                    msg=f"{attr} must delegate to {target}",
-                )
-
     def test_wrapper_holds_no_resolved_state(self):
         # __slots__: no __dict__; the only instance state is the override hook.
         self.assertFalse(hasattr(get_parallel(), "__dict__"))
@@ -204,50 +286,46 @@ class TestParallelDelegation(_IsolatedOverrides):
 
 
 class TestTheTwoWorldWidths(_IsolatedOverrides):
-    """Two questions about the WORLD group: what it was built at, and what it
-    has room for.
+    """Two questions about the WORLD group: what it was launched at, and what
+    it has room for.
 
-    Neither is stored here. How much of that room is serving after a scale-up
-    is elastic-EP state, and is asked of the manager that owns it rather than
-    mirrored onto this namespace.
+    Both are arithmetic over the configured leaves and are worked out at
+    publish, so they answer in a process that never builds the group -- which
+    is where a good half of the readers are. How much of that room is serving
+    after a scale-up is neither of them: that is elastic-EP state, asked of the
+    manager that owns it rather than mirrored onto this namespace.
     """
 
-    def test_the_launch_width_is_what_the_group_was_built_at(self):
-        with patch(f"{_PS}.get_world_size", return_value=4):
-            self.assertEqual(get_parallel().launch_world_size, 4)
+    def _published(self, **fields):
+        reset_context()
+        self.addCleanup(reset_context)
+        publish(ServerArgs(model_path="dummy", **fields), role="test")
+        return get_parallel()
+
+    def test_the_launch_width_is_a_rank_per_stage_of_each_group(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self._published(tp_size=4, pp_size=2).launch_world_size, 8)
+
+    def test_the_launch_width_spans_the_ranks_a_joiner_came_in_above(self):
+        """A scale joiner lays its own groups out at `tp * pp`, while its WORLD
+        spans the cohort already running underneath it as well."""
+        parallel = self._published(tp_size=4, pp_size=1, ep_join_rank_offset=8)
+        self.assertEqual(parallel.launch_world_size, 12)
 
     def test_the_ceiling_is_the_configured_one_when_there_is_one(self):
-        parallel = get_parallel()
-        with (
-            parallel.override(max_ep_size=32),
-            patch(
-                f"{_PS}.get_world_size",
-                side_effect=AssertionError("the built group must not be asked"),
-            ),
-        ):
-            self.assertEqual(parallel.max_world_size, 32)
+        self.assertEqual(self._published(tp_size=4, max_ep_size=32).max_world_size, 32)
 
     def test_without_a_configured_ceiling_the_room_is_the_launch_width(self):
-        parallel = get_parallel()
-        with (
-            parallel.override(max_ep_size=None),
-            patch(f"{_PS}.get_world_size", return_value=8),
-        ):
-            self.assertEqual(parallel.max_world_size, 8)
+        parallel = self._published(tp_size=8)
+        self.assertEqual(parallel.launch_world_size, 8)
+        self.assertEqual(parallel.max_world_size, 8)
 
     def test_each_width_can_be_stated_on_its_own(self):
         """Stating one must not answer for the other: they are two names."""
-        parallel = get_parallel()
-        with (
-            parallel.override(launch_world_size=2, max_ep_size=None),
-            patch(
-                f"{_PS}.get_world_size",
-                side_effect=AssertionError("the built group must not be asked"),
-            ),
-        ):
+        parallel = self._published(tp_size=8)
+        with parallel.override(launch_world_size=2):
             self.assertEqual(parallel.launch_world_size, 2)
-            self.assertEqual(parallel.max_world_size, 2)
-            with parallel.override(max_ep_size=6):
+            self.assertEqual(parallel.max_world_size, 8)
+            with parallel.override(max_world_size=6):
                 self.assertEqual(parallel.max_world_size, 6)
                 self.assertEqual(parallel.launch_world_size, 2)
 
@@ -380,18 +458,20 @@ class TestAttentionRanksComeFromPublish(_IsolatedOverrides):
             role="test",
             ranks=SpawnRanks(world_rank=5),
         )
-        with patch(
-            f"{_PS}.get_attn_tensor_model_parallel_rank",
-            side_effect=AssertionError("no group must be consulted"),
-        ):
+        with patch.object(_parallel_state(), "_ATTN_TP", None):
             self.assertEqual(get_parallel().attn_tp_rank, 1)
             self.assertEqual(get_parallel().attn_dp_rank, 1)
 
-    def test_without_a_bundle_it_still_asks_the_group(self):
-        """Unchanged for every process that publishes without a placement."""
+    def test_without_a_bundle_a_rank_read_says_what_is_missing(self):
+        """There is nothing to fall back to. Deriving one from whatever group
+        happens to be installed would answer a different question -- where this
+        process sits in that group, not where the launcher put it."""
         publish(ServerArgs(model_path="dummy", tp_size=8), role="test")
-        with patch(f"{_PS}.get_attn_tensor_model_parallel_rank", return_value=3):
-            self.assertEqual(get_parallel().attn_tp_rank, 3)
+        with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError) as caught:
+            get_parallel().attn_tp_rank
+        message = str(caught.exception)
+        self.assertIn("has not been written in this process", message)
+        self.assertIn("override(attn_tp_rank=...)", message)
 
 
 class TestStampedRanks(_IsolatedOverrides):
@@ -568,16 +648,14 @@ class TestEveryDeclaredParallelNameIsStatable(_IsolatedOverrides):
 
         The bag carries the declared quotients as well as the operator's
         leaves, and both are ahead of the live getter once a configuration is
-        published: a name in `_LIVE_READS` and in either of them would answer
+        published: a declared name that is also a leaf would answer
         from the getter before publish and from the bag after."""
         from sglang.srt.runtime_context import (
-            _LIVE_READS,
             _derived_widths,
             _parallel_config_leaves,
         )
 
-        self.assertEqual(set(_LIVE_READS) & _parallel_config_leaves(), set())
-        self.assertEqual(set(_LIVE_READS) & set(_derived_widths()), set())
+        self.assertEqual(set(_derived_widths()) & _parallel_config_leaves(), set())
 
     def test_an_undeclared_name_is_refused(self):
         with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
@@ -741,19 +819,43 @@ class TestParallelDCP(_IsolatedOverrides):
         self.assertTrue(parallel.dcp_enabled)
         self.assertEqual(parallel.attn_dcp_size, 8)
 
-    def test_the_dcp_rank_still_reads_the_group(self):
-        """A rank is not implied by the configuration, so it reads the group --
-        gated on a width that is."""
-        with (
-            get_parallel().override(tp_size=8, dcp_size=8, dcp_enabled=False),
-            patch(f"{_PS}.get_dcp_rank", side_effect=AssertionError),
-        ):
-            self.assertEqual(get_parallel().attn_dcp_rank, 0)
-        with (
-            get_parallel().override(tp_size=8, dcp_size=8, dcp_enabled=True),
-            patch(f"{_PS}.get_dcp_rank", return_value=3),
-        ):
-            self.assertEqual(get_parallel().attn_dcp_rank, 3)
+    def _placed(self, world_rank, **fields):
+        reset_context()
+        self.addCleanup(reset_context)
+        publish(
+            ServerArgs(model_path="dummy", **fields),
+            role="test",
+            ranks=SpawnRanks(world_rank=world_rank),
+        )
+        return get_parallel()
+
+    def test_the_dcp_rank_is_where_the_tp_rank_falls_in_its_slice(self):
+        """A DCP group is a contiguous slice of the TP group, so the place in
+        one is the TP rank folded by the width."""
+        parallel = self._placed(5, tp_size=8, dcp_size=4)
+        self.assertEqual(parallel.dcp_rank, 1)
+        self.assertEqual(parallel.attn_dcp_rank, 1)
+
+    def test_the_gated_off_rank_answers_without_a_spawn_bundle(self):
+        """Zero for every process when decode context parallelism is off, so a
+        reader on a path that never publishes a bundle -- a memory pool, an
+        attention backend built in a unit test -- still gets an answer. It
+        stood for a group that was never built before, and it has to keep
+        answering the same way."""
+        reset_context()
+        self.addCleanup(reset_context)
+        publish(ServerArgs(model_path="dummy", tp_size=8), role="test")
+        self.assertEqual(get_parallel().attn_dcp_rank, 0)
+
+    def test_the_dcp_rank_is_gated_on_a_width_the_configuration_carries(self):
+        """Zero where decode context parallelism is off, so a reader does not
+        have to ask whether it is on before asking where it sits -- and the
+        gated-off name is not answered at all, because no group holds it."""
+        parallel = self._placed(5, tp_size=8, dcp_size=1)
+        self.assertFalse(parallel.dcp_enabled)
+        self.assertEqual(parallel.attn_dcp_rank, 0)
+        with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError):
+            parallel.dcp_rank
 
     def test_the_width_does_not_consult_the_platform(self):
         with patch("sglang.srt.utils.is_cuda", return_value=False) as is_cuda:
@@ -2074,10 +2176,16 @@ class TestDerivedWidths(_IsolatedOverrides):
             {name for name in widths if "world" in name},
             set(),
         )
-        parallel = get_parallel()
-        parallel.override_permanently(attn_tp_size=4)
-        with patch(f"{_PS}.get_world_size", return_value=9):
-            self.assertEqual(parallel.launch_world_size, 9)
+        # Its own arithmetic spans the offset, which is the leaf the quotients
+        # above are not given and could not account for.
+        from sglang.srt.runtime_context import launch_world_size_of
+
+        self.assertEqual(
+            launch_world_size_of(
+                SimpleNamespace(ep_join_rank_offset=8, tp_size=4, pp_size=1)
+            ),
+            12,
+        )
 
     def test_the_bare_name_is_gone(self):
         """It answered two questions, so every reader had to remember which.
@@ -2315,15 +2423,27 @@ class TestTheDerivedHalfIsDeclared(CustomTestCase):
                 f"{name} is declared but no property was installed",
             )
 
-    def test_the_declared_set_is_what_derive_parallel_widths_produces(self):
-        """The declaration is not a second list to keep in step: it names
-        exactly the quotients the derivation returns."""
-        from sglang.srt.arg_groups.arg_utils import Derived
-        from sglang.srt.arg_groups.fields.parallel import Parallel
+    def test_a_computed_name_names_the_function_that_computes_it(self):
+        """The declaration is not a second list to keep in step: a name that
+        is a function of the leaves points at a function called after it, and
+        that function existing is the whole of what publish needs."""
+        import importlib
+
+        from sglang.srt.runtime_context import _derived_widths
+
+        computed = {n: d.fn for n, d in _derived_widths().items() if d.fn}
+        self.assertTrue(computed, "nothing is computed from the leaves")
+        for name, fn in computed.items():
+            module, _, attr = fn.rpartition(".")
+            self.assertEqual(attr, f"{name}_of", f"{name} is computed by {attr}")
+            self.assertTrue(callable(getattr(importlib.import_module(module), attr)))
+
+    def test_the_arithmetic_produces_nothing_that_is_not_declared(self):
+        """The other side of it: a key the derivation returns and no
+        declaration names is a width the namespace never answers with, and the
+        group build re-states it into a name nobody can read."""
+        from sglang.srt.runtime_context import _derived_widths
 
-        declared = {
-            name for name, value in vars(Parallel).items() if isinstance(value, Derived)
-        }
         produced = set(
             derive_parallel_widths(
                 tp_size=8,
@@ -2335,7 +2455,7 @@ class TestTheDerivedHalfIsDeclared(CustomTestCase):
                 dcp_enabled=False,
             )
         )
-        self.assertEqual(declared, produced)
+        self.assertEqual(produced - set(_derived_widths()), set())
 
     def test_a_declared_quotient_is_not_a_record_field(self):
         """It has no operator input to preserve, and the record is what crosses
@@ -2405,15 +2525,34 @@ class TestTheAccessorsHaveNoCallersOutsideTheirPackage(CustomTestCase):
     has its own parallel state.
     """
 
-    #: Not topology. `get_self_pp_group` builds the single-rank group a draft
-    #: pipeline scope installs, so there is nothing for the context to answer
-    #: with until the scope has installed it.
+    #: May have callers. `get_self_pp_group` builds the single-rank group a
+    #: draft pipeline scope installs, so there is nothing for the context to
+    #: answer with until the scope has installed it; the other two are not
+    #: topology at all.
     ALLOWED = {
         "get_self_pp_group",
         "get_default_distributed_backend",
         "get_mooncake_transfer_engine",
     }
 
+    #: Zero callers required, but not deprecated either: the context has no
+    #: name that answers the same question.
+    #:
+    #: The three widths read a group the build does not check against the
+    #: configuration, so "the group's width" and "the configured width" are two
+    #: facts -- the MoE-DP group is the attention-CP group when the latter is
+    #: wider, and the other two are simply not pinned yet. Pinning them in
+    #: `_WIDTH_AND_GROUP` is what would let them move.
+    NOT_ANSWERED_BY_THE_CONTEXT = {
+        "get_moe_data_parallel_world_size",
+        "get_moe_tensor_parallel_world_size",
+        "get_dcp_world_size",
+        # Answers `None` where the context asserts, which is the whole point of
+        # the caller that wants it.
+        "get_dcp_group_no_assert",
+        "get_torch_distributed_pg_options",
+    }
+
     def _accessors(self):
         """Derived from the source, not listed here: a guard whose subject set
         is written by hand stops watching whatever gets added next."""
@@ -2458,6 +2597,139 @@ class TestTheAccessorsHaveNoCallersOutsideTheirPackage(CustomTestCase):
             "context cannot answer them",
         )
 
+    #: How many callers each exempt accessor has outside the defining package.
+    #: A ratchet, not a description: these may go down and never up, and a name
+    #: that reaches zero comes off the list. Anything not here must have none.
+    ALLOWED_CALLERS = {
+        "get_self_pp_group": 1,
+        "get_default_distributed_backend": 1,
+        "get_mooncake_transfer_engine": 6,
+    }
+
+    def test_the_exempt_accessors_do_not_grow_new_callers(self):
+        """The zero-caller rule above cannot cover the three that are not
+        topology, so they get a count instead. Ratchets only turn one way: a
+        number that has to go up means a new business-code reader of a name the
+        context should be answering."""
+        for name, allowed in sorted(self.ALLOWED_CALLERS.items()):
+            callers = self._callers(name)
+            self.assertLessEqual(
+                len(callers),
+                allowed,
+                f"{name} grew a caller: {callers}. Read it through "
+                f"get_parallel() if the context can answer it; if it truly "
+                f"cannot, lower this number only when one goes away.",
+            )
+
+    def test_every_getter_the_context_answers_is_deprecated(self):
+        """The other half of the ratchet: the deprecation set is derived from
+        the table that maps a context name to the getter behind it, so dropping
+        a getter out of that table would quietly take it off the list. This
+        fails if one of them stops being marked."""
+        from sglang.srt.distributed import parallel_state
+
+        marked = set(parallel_state._CONTEXT_NAME_OF)
+        unclassified = (
+            self._accessors() - self.ALLOWED - self.NOT_ANSWERED_BY_THE_CONTEXT
+        )
+        for name in sorted(unclassified):
+            if name in marked:
+                continue
+            # Not answered by the context and not exempt: a getter that is
+            # neither is a name with no home, which is what this module exists
+            # to prevent.
+            self.assertIn(
+                name,
+                marked,
+                f"{name} is neither deprecated nor listed as exempt -- give it "
+                "a context name or say here why it has none",
+            )
+
+    def test_calling_one_from_outside_the_package_is_deprecated(self):
+        """The getters stay -- they are the definition -- but a call that comes
+        from outside the package that defines them cannot be redirected by a
+        scope, so it says what to read instead."""
+        import warnings
+
+        from sglang.srt.distributed import parallel_state
+
+        parallel_state._ALREADY_WARNED.discard("get_tensor_model_parallel_rank")
+        self.addCleanup(
+            parallel_state._ALREADY_WARNED.discard, "get_tensor_model_parallel_rank"
+        )
+        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as seen:
+            warnings.simplefilter("always")
+            try:
+                parallel_state.get_tensor_model_parallel_rank()
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+        messages = [str(w.message) for w in seen]
+        self.assertTrue(
+            any("get_parallel().tp_rank" in m for m in messages),
+            f"expected the replacement to be named, got {messages}",
+        )
+
+    def test_nothing_the_context_answers_with_calls_back_into_the_package(self):
+        """The read path reaches the stored group, not the getter that used to
+        wrap it -- which is what lets the getters be deprecated without the
+        replacement tripping the warning meant for people who bypass it."""
+
+        import inspect
+
+        from sglang.srt.distributed import parallel_state
+        from sglang.srt.runtime_context import ParallelContext, _derived_widths
+
+        written = {n for n, d in _derived_widths().items() if not d.fn}
+        self.assertTrue(written, "no written-at-runtime names; this proves nothing")
+        self.assertIn("tp_group", written)
+
+        # The read path is lookups only -- override, stamp, bag. Nothing in it
+        # can reach a getter, which is what lets them be deprecated without the
+        # replacement tripping the warning meant for people who bypass it.
+        body = inspect.getsource(ParallelContext._read)
+        self.assertNotIn("_ps()", body)
+        self.assertNotIn("parallel_state", body)
+        self.assertNotIn("sglang.srt.runtime_context", parallel_state._EXEMPT_CALLERS)
+
+    def test_a_scope_reaches_callers_that_went_straight_to_the_getter(self):
+        """The getters read the context, so redirecting a group redirects them
+        too. PD multiplexing needs exactly this: the in-package readers have to
+        follow the prefill communicator, not just the ones asking the context."""
+        from sglang.srt.distributed import parallel_state
+
+        stand_in = SimpleNamespace(world_size=1, rank_in_group=0)
+        with get_parallel().override(tp_group=stand_in):
+            self.assertIs(get_parallel().tp_group, stand_in)
+            self.assertIs(parallel_state.get_tp_group(), stand_in)
+
+    def test_the_package_that_defines_them_is_not_warned_at(self):
+        """`srt/distributed/` keeps calling them: a read there would go through
+        the context back into itself."""
+        import warnings
+
+        from sglang.srt.distributed import parallel_state
+
+        parallel_state._ALREADY_WARNED.discard("get_tensor_model_parallel_rank")
+        self.addCleanup(
+            parallel_state._ALREADY_WARNED.discard, "get_tensor_model_parallel_rank"
+        )
+        caller = types.ModuleType("sglang.srt.distributed.pretend_internal")
+        caller.__dict__["call"] = lambda: (
+            parallel_state.get_tensor_model_parallel_rank()
+        )
+        exec(
+            "def call():\n    from sglang.srt.distributed import parallel_state\n"
+            "    return parallel_state.get_tp_group()",
+            caller.__dict__,
+        )
+        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as seen:
+            warnings.simplefilter("always")
+            try:
+                caller.call()
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+        self.assertEqual([str(w.message) for w in seen], [])
+
     def test_the_guard_would_notice_a_caller(self):
         """The subject set is derived, so this checks the search finds a real
         call rather than that the list happens to be empty: `get_self_pp_group`
@@ -2571,37 +2843,39 @@ class TestTheTopologyIdentities(CustomTestCase):
 
     def test_a_group_built_at_another_width_is_refused(self):
         """The other end of the same identity: what the configuration says and
-        what the coordinators were actually built at, checked where the
-        disagreement is still attributable to the build."""
-        from sglang.srt.distributed import parallel_state
+        what the coordinators were actually built at. Stating a group is how
+        the build hands it over, so that write is where the disagreement
+        surfaces -- still attributable to the build, and before a collective
+        runs on the wrong peers."""
         from sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state import GroupCoordinator
 
         self._publish_square()
         wrong = GroupCoordinator.__new__(GroupCoordinator)
         wrong.world_size = 8
         wrong.rank_in_group = 0
-        with patch.object(parallel_state, "_TP", wrong):
-            with self.assertRaises(ValueError) as caught:
-                _validate_parallel(get_parallel(), "group build")
+        with self.assertRaises(ValueError) as caught:
+            get_parallel().override_permanently(tp_group=wrong)
         message = str(caught.exception)
-        self.assertIn("set by group build", message)
         self.assertIn("tp_group.world_size == tp_size", message)
         self.assertIn("built 8, configured 4", message)
+        # The refused write left nothing behind: the name is unwritten, not
+        # holding a group no identity accepts.
+        with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError):
+            get_parallel().tp_group
 
     def test_a_group_built_at_the_configured_width_is_quiet(self):
-        from sglang.srt.distributed import parallel_state
         from sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state import GroupCoordinator
 
         self._publish_square()
         right = GroupCoordinator.__new__(GroupCoordinator)
         right.world_size = 4
         right.rank_in_group = 3
-        with patch.object(parallel_state, "_TP", right):
-            _validate_parallel(get_parallel(), "group build")
+        get_parallel().override_permanently(tp_group=right)
+        self.assertIs(get_parallel().tp_group, right)
 
     def test_a_draft_scope_states_a_consistent_topology(self):
         """The scope narrows four names at once, so the identity applies to it
-        -- and holds, which is what step lets the guard stay on."""
+        -- and holds, which is what lets the guard stay on."""
         from sglang.srt.distributed import parallel_state
         from sglang.srt.distributed.parallel_state import GroupCoordinator
 
@@ -2609,9 +2883,8 @@ class TestTheTopologyIdentities(CustomTestCase):
         group = GroupCoordinator.__new__(GroupCoordinator)
         group.world_size = 2
         group.rank_in_group = 1
-        with patch.object(parallel_state, "_TP", group):
-            with parallel_state.patch_tensor_parallel_group(group, owns_attention=True):
-                self.assertEqual(get_parallel().attn_tp_size, 2)
+        with parallel_state.patch_tensor_parallel_group(group, owns_attention=True):
+            self.assertEqual(get_parallel().attn_tp_size, 2)
 
 
 class TestWhoAnswersDuringADraftScope(CustomTestCase):
@@ -2650,11 +2923,10 @@ class TestWhoAnswersDuringADraftScope(CustomTestCase):
         group = self._single_member_group()
         self._two_stage_pipeline()
         self.assertEqual(get_parallel().pp_size, 2)
-        with patch.object(parallel_state, "_PP", group):
-            with parallel_state.patch_pipeline_parallel_group(group):
-                self.assertEqual(get_parallel().pp_size, 1)
-                self.assertEqual(get_parallel().pp_rank, 0)
-                self.assertIs(get_parallel().pp_group, group)
+        with parallel_state.patch_pipeline_parallel_group(group):
+            self.assertEqual(get_parallel().pp_size, 1)
+            self.assertEqual(get_parallel().pp_rank, 0)
+            self.assertIs(get_parallel().pp_group, group)
         self.assertEqual(get_parallel().pp_size, 2)
         self.assertEqual(get_parallel().pp_rank, 1)
 
@@ -2685,28 +2957,25 @@ class TestWhoAnswersDuringADraftScope(CustomTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(get_parallel().attn_tp_size, 2)
 
         group = self._group(world_size=2, rank=1)
-        with patch.object(parallel_state, "_TP", group):
-            with parallel_state.patch_tensor_parallel_group(group, owns_attention=True):
-                parallel = get_parallel()
-                self.assertEqual(parallel.tp_size, 2)
-                self.assertEqual(parallel.attn_tp_size, 2)
-                self.assertEqual(parallel.attn_tp_rank, 1)
-                self.assertEqual(parallel.attn_dp_size, 1)
-                self.assertEqual(parallel.attn_dp_rank, 0)
-                self.assertEqual(parallel.attn_cp_size, 1)
-                self.assertEqual(parallel.attn_cp_rank, 0)
-                # `dp_size` is the deployment's replica count, not a property
-                # of the group being installed, so the scope leaves it alone --
-                # `require_mlp_tp_gather` asserts on it under dp attention.
-                self.assertEqual(parallel.dp_size, 2)
-                # The whole point of stating the rest: the identity the
-                # override path and the group build both check holds in here.
-                self.assertEqual(
-                    parallel.tp_size,
-                    parallel.attn_tp_size
-                    * parallel.attn_dp_size
-                    * parallel.attn_cp_size,
-                )
+        with parallel_state.patch_tensor_parallel_group(group, owns_attention=True):
+            parallel = get_parallel()
+            self.assertEqual(parallel.tp_size, 2)
+            self.assertEqual(parallel.attn_tp_size, 2)
+            self.assertEqual(parallel.attn_tp_rank, 1)
+            self.assertEqual(parallel.attn_dp_size, 1)
+            self.assertEqual(parallel.attn_dp_rank, 0)
+            self.assertEqual(parallel.attn_cp_size, 1)
+            self.assertEqual(parallel.attn_cp_rank, 0)
+            # `dp_size` is the deployment's replica count, not a property of
+            # the group being installed, so the scope leaves it alone --
+            # `require_mlp_tp_gather` asserts on it under dp attention.
+            self.assertEqual(parallel.dp_size, 2)
+            # The whole point of stating the rest: the identity the override
+            # path and the group build both check holds in here.
+            self.assertEqual(
+                parallel.tp_size,
+                parallel.attn_tp_size * parallel.attn_dp_size * parallel.attn_cp_size,
+            )
         self.assertEqual(get_parallel().attn_dp_size, 2)
         self.assertEqual(get_parallel().dp_size, 2)
 
@@ -2790,9 +3059,8 @@ class TestWhoAnswersDuringADraftScope(CustomTestCase):
         self._two_stage_pipeline()
         self.assertEqual(get_parallel().pp_size, 2)
         group = self._single_member_group()
-        with patch.object(parallel_state, "_PP", group):
-            with parallel_state.patch_pipeline_parallel_group(group):
-                checker = WeightChecker(get_model=lambda: None)
+        with parallel_state.patch_pipeline_parallel_group(group):
+            checker = WeightChecker(get_model=lambda: None)
 
         # The scope has closed and the context answers the target's shape again.
         self.assertEqual(get_parallel().pp_size, 2)