diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/managers/scheduler.py b/python/sglang/srt/managers/scheduler.py
index 6e1e687c5..eaee6df66 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/managers/scheduler.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/managers/scheduler.py
@@ -2276,7 +2276,7 @@ class Scheduler(
             self.rust_server = None
             return
 
-        rust_server = RustServer.launch(self)
+        rust_server = self.get_rust_server_class().launch(self)
         self.rust_server = rust_server
         # The rust server *is* the ingress source: SchedulerRequestReceiver
         # drains its request ring (rust_server_mode) instead of a zmq socket.
@@ -2284,6 +2284,9 @@ class Scheduler(
         # Park the idle loop on the request ring within the rank-0 rust-server
         self.idle_sleeper = RustServerIdleSleeper(rust_server)
 
+    def get_rust_server_class(self) -> type[RustServer]:
+        return RustServer
+
     def rust_server_tokenizer_path(self) -> str:
         return get_serving().tokenizer_path
 
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/rust_server/config.py b/python/sglang/srt/rust_server/config.py
index ec42e93b0..e7137ea3a 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/rust_server/config.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/rust_server/config.py
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
-"""Configuration handoff and CPU placement for the embedded Rust server."""
+"""Configuration and CPU placement for the embedded Rust server."""
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import json
 import logging
 import os
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, List, Optional, Tuple
+from types import ModuleType
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Callable, List, Optional, Tuple
 
 from sglang.srt.arg_groups.overrides import resolving_view
 from sglang.srt.managers.utils import compute_num_reserved_tokens
@@ -25,8 +26,10 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-def _build_server_args(scheduler: Scheduler) -> ServerArgs:
-    """The typed launch handoff for the scheduler's embedded Rust server:
+def _build_server_args(
+    scheduler: Scheduler, *, extension: Optional[ModuleType] = None
+) -> ServerArgs:
+    """The typed launch configuration for the scheduler's embedded Rust server:
     the ``server_args`` fields it reads, the already-resolved
     ``model_config``, and launch-time facts — as the Rust extension's own
     ``ServerArgs`` class. Its constructor takes every field as a required
@@ -35,7 +38,7 @@ def _build_server_args(scheduler: Scheduler) -> ServerArgs:
     running on a silently-defaulted knob."""
     from sglang.srt.rust_extensions import load_rust_extension
 
-    ext = load_rust_extension("sglang.srt.rust_extensions._server")
+    ext = extension or load_rust_extension("sglang.srt.rust_extensions._server")
 
     sa = resolving_view(scheduler.server_args)
     mc = scheduler.model_config
@@ -100,6 +103,7 @@ def _build_server_args(scheduler: Scheduler) -> ServerArgs:
 
 def _partition_cores(
     mm_workers: int = 0,
+    server_core_budget: Optional[Callable[[int, int], int]] = None,
 ) -> Tuple[Optional[List[int]], Optional[List[int]]]:
     """Split this rank's allowed cores into ``(launch_cores, server_cores)``.
 
@@ -138,7 +142,11 @@ def _partition_cores(
     # once bounded. The budget covers the CPU-hot threads (MM workers, plus
     # the I/O-shaped tokenizer/ingress/egress/api ones that are rarely all hot
     # at once) and leaves the rest of the node to the scheduler ranks.
-    pool_budget = max(8, mm_workers + 4)
+    pool_budget = (
+        server_core_budget(len(allowed), mm_workers)
+        if server_core_budget is not None
+        else max(8, mm_workers + 4)
+    )
     server_cores = allowed[reserve : reserve + pool_budget]
     logger.info(
         "rust server cores=%s, scheduler launch cores=%s",
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/rust_server/server.py b/python/sglang/srt/rust_server/server.py
index 557a933b5..803555132 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/rust_server/server.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/rust_server/server.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 The Rust server replaces the Python api-server + `TokenizerManager` +
 `DetokenizerManager` stack, running them as Rust threads inside the scheduler
 process. This wrapper keeps all `SGLANG_RUST_SERVER` plumbing — startup,
-CPU-core partitioning, the typed `server_args` handoff, and control-response
+CPU-core partitioning, the typed `server_args`, and control-response
 routing — out of `scheduler.py`. The scheduler holds an `Optional[RustServer]`
 and delegates to it.
 """
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import logging
 import os
 from array import array
 from itertools import chain
+from types import ModuleType
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, List, Optional
 
 import msgspec
@@ -39,8 +40,9 @@ from sglang.srt.utils.network import NetworkAddress
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from sglang.srt.managers.io_struct import BatchTokenIDOutput
+    from sglang.srt.managers.schedule_batch import MultimodalProcessorOutput
     from sglang.srt.managers.scheduler import Scheduler
-    from sglang.srt.rust_extensions._server import MmSpec, Server
+    from sglang.srt.rust_extensions._server import MmEncodedResult, MmSpec, Server
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -62,8 +64,50 @@ class RustServer:
         self.server = server
         self.http_port = http_port
         self.mm_spec = mm_spec
+        self._multimodal_enabled = mm_spec is not None
         self._max_per_poll = max_per_poll
 
+    @classmethod
+    def _load_extension(cls) -> ModuleType:
+        from sglang.srt.rust_extensions import load_rust_extension
+
+        return load_rust_extension("sglang.srt.rust_extensions._server")
+
+    def _start_multimodal(self, scheduler: Scheduler) -> None:
+        """Start the model's Rust workers and retain their scheduler-side state."""
+        mm_host = RustMmProcessor(
+            server_args=scheduler.server_args,
+            model_config=scheduler.model_config,
+            processor=scheduler.processor,
+        )
+        mm_spec = mm_host.resolve_spec()
+        if mm_spec is None:
+            supported = sorted(
+                set(chain.from_iterable(f.model_types for f in RUST_MM_FAMILIES))
+            )
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                "SGLANG_RUST_SERVER=1: no Rust MM pipeline for "
+                f"model_type={scheduler.model_config.hf_config.model_type!r} "
+                f"(supported: {', '.join(supported)}; "
+                "images only). Unset SGLANG_RUST_SERVER to serve this model."
+            )
+        self.server.start_mm_workers(self._build_mm_spec(mm_spec), mm_host.mm_workers)
+        self.mm_spec = mm_spec
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _server_core_budget(allowed_core_count: int, mm_workers: int) -> int:
+        """Maximum cores available to the Rust frontend and MM workers."""
+        return max(8, mm_workers + 4)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def _partition_cores(
+        cls, mm_workers: int = 0
+    ) -> tuple[Optional[List[int]], Optional[List[int]]]:
+        return _partition_cores(
+            mm_workers=mm_workers,
+            server_core_budget=cls._server_core_budget,
+        )
+
     @classmethod
     def launch(cls, scheduler: Scheduler) -> RustServer:
         """Start the embedded Rust server threads and bind the listen port.
@@ -71,14 +115,9 @@ class RustServer:
         The caller gates this (``SGLANG_RUST_SERVER`` + rank 0); this always
         creates.
         """
-        from sglang.srt.rust_extensions import load_rust_extension
-
-        Server = load_rust_extension("sglang.srt.rust_extensions._server").Server
-
         # Force turn off HF tokenizers rayon's unpinned global thread pool.
         os.environ.setdefault("TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM", "false")
 
-        server_args = scheduler.server_args
         # Preserve the DP startup log; ports use node-local offsets.
         dp_rank = scheduler.ps.attn_dp_rank if scheduler.ps.dp_size > 1 else None
         if get_exec().moe.is_ep_scale_joiner:
@@ -94,7 +133,7 @@ class RustServer:
         listen_port = get_serving().port + local_dp_rank
         listen_addr = NetworkAddress(get_serving().host, listen_port).to_host_port_str()
 
-        launch_cores, server_cores = _partition_cores(
+        launch_cores, server_cores = cls._partition_cores(
             mm_workers=(
                 (get_mm().mm_processor_worker_num or RustMmProcessor.AUTO_MM_WORKERS)
                 if scheduler.model_config.is_multimodal
@@ -102,16 +141,17 @@ class RustServer:
             )
         )
 
-        server = Server(
-            _build_server_args(scheduler),
-            # None -> run unpinned; the list carries the pinning decision.
+        extension = cls._load_extension()
+        server = extension.Server(
+            _build_server_args(scheduler, extension=extension),
+            # None runs unpinned; otherwise the list carries the pinning decision.
             cores=server_cores,
             port_offset=local_dp_rank,
         )
+        instance = cls(server, http_port=listen_port)
 
         # Multimodal models must have a Rust pipeline — there is no Python
         # fallback.
-        mm_spec = None
         if scheduler.model_config.is_multimodal:
             # New threads inherit the spawning thread's affinity, and this launch
             # thread still holds the full mask. Narrow it first so every MM thread
@@ -125,23 +165,8 @@ class RustServer:
                     logger.warning(
                         "rust server: cannot confine mm threads to server cores: %s", e
                     )
-            mm_host = RustMmProcessor(
-                server_args=server_args,
-                model_config=scheduler.model_config,
-                processor=scheduler.processor,
-            )
-            mm_spec = mm_host.resolve_spec()
-            if mm_spec is None:
-                supported = sorted(
-                    set(chain.from_iterable(f.model_types for f in RUST_MM_FAMILIES))
-                )
-                raise RuntimeError(
-                    "SGLANG_RUST_SERVER=1: no Rust MM pipeline for "
-                    f"model_type={scheduler.model_config.hf_config.model_type!r} "
-                    f"(supported: {', '.join(supported)}; "
-                    "images only). Unset SGLANG_RUST_SERVER to serve this model."
-                )
-            server.start_mm_workers(cls._build_mm_spec(mm_spec), mm_host.mm_workers)
+            instance._start_multimodal(scheduler)
+            instance._multimodal_enabled = True
 
         # Narrow the scheduler thread only after the server threads are launched.
         if launch_cores is not None:
@@ -162,7 +187,11 @@ class RustServer:
             dp_note,
         )
 
-        return cls(server, http_port=listen_port, mm_spec=mm_spec)
+        return instance
+
+    def _wrap_mm_result(self, entry: MmEncodedResult) -> MultimodalProcessorOutput:
+        assert self.mm_spec is not None
+        return RustMmProcessor.wrap_encoded(self.mm_spec, entry)
 
     def wait_request(self, timeout_ms: int) -> None:
         """Block until a request is pushed into the in-process ring or the timeout
@@ -215,20 +244,20 @@ class RustServer:
                 ids.frombytes(ids_view[pos : pos + nbytes])
                 obj.input_ids = ids
                 pos += nbytes
-            if self.mm_spec is not None and isinstance(obj, TokenizedGenerateReqInput):
+            if self._multimodal_enabled and isinstance(obj, TokenizedGenerateReqInput):
                 # The buffers were parked in the Rust result store before the
                 # ring push; wrapping them into tensors is the only Python step
                 # of the Rust path. `None` for a text-only request on a
                 # multimodal model.
-                encoded = self.server.take_mm_result(obj.rid)
-                if encoded is not None:
-                    obj.mm_inputs = RustMmProcessor.wrap_encoded(self.mm_spec, encoded)
+                mm_result = self.server.take_mm_result(obj.rid)
+                if mm_result is not None:
+                    obj.mm_inputs = self._wrap_mm_result(mm_result)
             out.append(obj)
         return out
 
     def push_control_output(self, recv_req, output) -> None:
         """Push a control-request response through the egress ring to the waiting
-        request (routed by rid), encoded as **msgpack** (the ring's native
+        request (routed by rid), encoded as **msgpack** (the ring's message
         format).
 
         A msgspec struct is converted to a *named map* (``structs.asdict``, since
@@ -407,16 +436,14 @@ class RustServer:
                 len(rids),
             )
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def _build_mm_spec(spec: RustMmSpec) -> MmSpec:
-        """The typed MM handoff for ``Server.start_mm_workers``: the
+    @classmethod
+    def _build_mm_spec(cls, spec: RustMmSpec) -> MmSpec:
+        """The typed MM configuration for ``Server.start_mm_workers``: the
         :class:`RustMmSpec` fields the Rust pipeline consumes, as the Rust
         extension's own ``MmSpec`` class (same required-keyword contract as
-        :meth:`_build_server_args`; ``family`` / ``resample`` become the
+        :func:`_build_server_args`; ``family`` / ``resample`` become the
         extension's ``MmFamily`` / ``MmResample`` enums)."""
-        from sglang.srt.rust_extensions import load_rust_extension
-
-        ext = load_rust_extension("sglang.srt.rust_extensions._server")
+        ext = cls._load_extension()
         family = {"qwen_vl": ext.MmFamily.QwenVl}[spec.family]
         resample = {"aten_u8": ext.MmResample.AtenU8, "pil": ext.MmResample.Pil}[
             spec.resample
diff --git a/rust/sglang-mm/src/pipeline.rs b/rust/sglang-mm/src/pipeline.rs
index a6afe04b1..37d11e065 100644
--- a/rust/sglang-mm/src/pipeline.rs
+++ b/rust/sglang-mm/src/pipeline.rs
@@ -13,6 +13,22 @@
 pub enum TensorData {
     F32(Vec<f32>),
     I64(Vec<i64>),
+    /// Raw BF16 bits, exposed to numpy as u16 without copying the allocation.
+    Bf16(Vec<u16>),
+}
+
+impl TensorData {
+    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
+        match self {
+            Self::F32(data) => data.len(),
+            Self::I64(data) => data.len(),
+            Self::Bf16(data) => data.len(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        self.len() == 0
+    }
 }
 
 pub struct Tensor {
diff --git a/rust/sglang-server/src/api_server/openai.rs b/rust/sglang-server/src/api_server/openai.rs
index 0d3a153eb..5e68c9c2c 100644
--- a/rust/sglang-server/src/api_server/openai.rs
+++ b/rust/sglang-server/src/api_server/openai.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 //! OpenAI-compatible generation endpoints.
 //!
 //! The HTTP adapter stays deliberately thin: Dynamo owns the standard OpenAI
-//! request and response primitives. Native [`ChunkEvent`] values remain the one
+//! request and response primitives. Scheduler [`ChunkEvent`] values remain the one
 //! backend output type for both unary and streaming responses.
 
 use axum::{Router, http::StatusCode, response::Response};
diff --git a/rust/sglang-server/src/api_server/openai/completions.rs b/rust/sglang-server/src/api_server/openai/completions.rs
index 5fd45b842..59757acc0 100644
--- a/rust/sglang-server/src/api_server/openai/completions.rs
+++ b/rust/sglang-server/src/api_server/openai/completions.rs
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ pub(super) struct SubmittedChoice {
 pub(super) struct ChoiceExtensions {
     matched_stop: Option<serde_json::Value>,
     /// Dynamo's enum covers the standard values. Python additionally exposes
-    /// `abort`, and native unknown finish types are preserved rather than lost.
+    /// `abort`; unrecognized scheduler finish types are preserved as well.
     finish_reason_override: Option<String>,
 }
 
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ fn completion_choice(
             Matched::Token(id) => serde_json::json!(id),
             Matched::Str(value) => serde_json::json!(value),
             // Python's OpenAI schema supports an integer or string here, not a
-            // multi-token list. Preserve the native value rather than dropping it.
+            // multi-token list. Preserve the original token IDs.
             Matched::Tokens(ids) => serde_json::json!(ids),
         });
     (
diff --git a/rust/sglang-server/src/api_server/openai/template.rs b/rust/sglang-server/src/api_server/openai/template.rs
index 3539d52ae..00346d70e 100644
--- a/rust/sglang-server/src/api_server/openai/template.rs
+++ b/rust/sglang-server/src/api_server/openai/template.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 //
 //! Hugging Face tokenizer configs contain Jinja templates. SGLang also accepts
 //! legacy conversation JSON files and the names in Python's template registry.
-//! Legacy definitions are rendered by a native port of Python's
+//! Legacy definitions are rendered by a Rust implementation of Python's
 //! `Conversation.get_prompt()` so there is exactly one implementation of the
 //! per-style formatting logic (no Jinja translation to drift).
 
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ mod tests {
     }
 
     #[test]
-    fn json_legacy_template_is_rendered_natively() {
+    fn json_legacy_template_is_rendered() {
         let base = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!(
             "sglang-openai-template-base-{}-test.json",
             std::process::id()
diff --git a/rust/sglang-server/src/api_server/openai/template_legacy.rs b/rust/sglang-server/src/api_server/openai/template_legacy.rs
index a40f4b59d..700729ea5 100644
--- a/rust/sglang-server/src/api_server/openai/template_legacy.rs
+++ b/rust/sglang-server/src/api_server/openai/template_legacy.rs
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ impl Default for LegacySpec {
     }
 }
 
-/// Native port of Python `generate_chat_conv` + `Conversation.get_prompt()`:
+/// Rust implementation of Python `generate_chat_conv` + `Conversation.get_prompt()`:
 /// fold system messages into the system prompt, keep user/assistant messages in
 /// order, always append the assistant opening, then render per `sep_style`.
 #[derive(Clone)]
diff --git a/rust/sglang-server/src/lib.rs b/rust/sglang-server/src/lib.rs
index 0e090f9bd..d7793bb0c 100644
--- a/rust/sglang-server/src/lib.rs
+++ b/rust/sglang-server/src/lib.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 //! (`_server`) and the classes exposed to the scheduler — the boot config
 //! ([`ServerArgs`] and its parts, constructed by keyword from Python; their
 //! `#[pyclass]`es and constructors live in `message::config`), [`Server`]
-//! (boot, `recv_requests`/`wait_request`, `push_*`, MM handoff, shutdown),
+//! (boot, `recv_requests`/`wait_request`, `push_*`, MM results, shutdown),
 //! [`RequestBatch`] and [`MmEncodedResult`]. Everything behind that boundary —
 //! receiving requests, encoding multimodal inputs, tokenizing, detokenizing,
 //! SSE streaming, and so on — is implemented purely in Rust and never touches
@@ -17,23 +17,40 @@ mod multi_modality;
 mod tokenizer_manager;
 mod utils;
 
+pub use message::config::{
+    DefaultSamplingParams, DisaggregationMode, MmFamily, MmResample, MmSpec, ModelConfig,
+    RustServerServerArgs, ServerArgs,
+};
+pub use message::multimodal::MmItem;
+pub use message::request::{MmWorkItem, ProcessorExtensions};
+pub use multi_modality::payload::{ResolvedMediaWork, resolve_media_work};
+pub use multi_modality::result_store::{
+    ExternalMmEncodedEntry, ExternalMmItem, MmEncodedEntry, MmModality, MmTokenIds,
+};
+pub use multi_modality::worker::{MmProcessOutput, MmProcessor};
+pub use sglang_mm::pipeline::{Tensor, TensorData};
+pub use tokenizer_manager::tokenizer::TextTokenizer;
+
+use std::collections::BTreeMap;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
 use pyo3::prelude::*;
 use pyo3::pybacked::PyBackedBytes;
 use pyo3::types::PyBytes;
 
-use crate::message::config::{
-    DefaultSamplingParams, DisaggregationMode, MmFamily, MmResample, MmSpec, ModelConfig,
-    RuntimeConfig, RustServerServerArgs, ServerArgs,
-};
+use crate::message::config::RuntimeConfig;
 use crate::utils::startup::{listen_addr, value_error};
 use crate::utils::{logging, runtime};
 
-/// One drained MM result (see [`Server::take_mm_result`]), consumed by
-/// `RustMmProcessor.wrap_encoded` to build the scheduler's
-/// `MultimodalProcessorOutput`.
+/// One drained MM result (see [`Server::take_mm_result`]).
+///
+/// Built-in results are consumed by `RustMmProcessor.wrap_encoded` to build
+/// `MultimodalProcessorOutput`. External integrations consume `external_items`
+/// and `external_token_ids` in their own Python wrappers; the built-in fields
+/// are empty in that case.
 #[pyclass(frozen, get_all)]
-struct MmEncodedResult {
-    // General fields.
+pub struct MmEncodedResult {
+    // General fields for the built-in processor path.
     /// All items' `pixel_values` concatenated as flat `f32` with logical shape
     /// `[sum(t*h*w), feature_dim]`; present on the inline (single-rank) path.
     features: Option<Py<numpy::PyArray1<f32>>>,
@@ -57,12 +74,121 @@ struct MmEncodedResult {
     /// M-RoPE delta, `max(mrope) + 1 - seq_len`, added to the plain sequence
     /// position during decoding.
     mrope_delta: i64,
+
+    // Fields for external processor integrations.
+    external_items: Vec<Py<ExternalMmItemResult>>,
+    external_token_ids: Option<MmTokenIds>,
+}
+
+/// One media item returned to an external Python integration. The NumPy view
+/// owns the feature allocation.
+#[pyclass(frozen, get_all)]
+pub struct ExternalMmItemResult {
+    modality: MmModality,
+    feature: MmFeatureArray,
+    shape: Vec<usize>,
+    hash: u64,
+    offsets: Vec<(u32, u32)>,
+    model_specific_data: BTreeMap<String, i64>,
+}
+
+#[derive(IntoPyObjectRef)]
+enum MmFeatureArray {
+    #[pyo3(transparent)]
+    F32(Py<numpy::PyArray1<f32>>),
+    #[pyo3(transparent)]
+    I64(Py<numpy::PyArray1<i64>>),
+    #[pyo3(transparent)]
+    Bf16(Py<numpy::PyArray1<u16>>),
+}
+
+#[pymethods]
+impl ExternalMmItemResult {
+    /// BF16 is exposed as raw u16 bits for Python to reinterpret without a copy.
+    #[getter]
+    fn feature_is_bf16(&self) -> bool {
+        matches!(self.feature, MmFeatureArray::Bf16(_))
+    }
+}
+
+impl MmEncodedResult {
+    fn from_entry(py: Python<'_>, entry: MmEncodedEntry) -> PyResult<Self> {
+        use numpy::IntoPyArray;
+
+        match entry {
+            MmEncodedEntry::Qwen(entry) => {
+                let (features, shm_names) = match entry.features {
+                    multi_modality::result_store::FeatureStore::Inline(v) => {
+                        (Some(v.into_pyarray(py).unbind()), None)
+                    }
+                    // The segments — and the duty to unlink — move to Python here;
+                    // `materialize()` unlinks after the post-broadcast clone on each rank.
+                    multi_modality::result_store::FeatureStore::Shm(segments) => (
+                        None,
+                        Some(segments.into_iter().map(|s| s.into_name()).collect()),
+                    ),
+                };
+                Ok(Self {
+                    features,
+                    shm_names,
+                    hashes: entry.hashes,
+                    offsets: entry.offsets,
+                    grids: entry.grids.iter().map(|g| (g[0], g[1], g[2])).collect(),
+                    mrope: entry.mrope.into_pyarray(py).unbind(),
+                    mrope_delta: entry.mrope_delta,
+                    external_items: Vec::new(),
+                    external_token_ids: None,
+                })
+            }
+            MmEncodedEntry::External(entry) => {
+                let external_items = entry
+                    .items
+                    .into_iter()
+                    .map(|item| {
+                        let feature = match item.feature.data {
+                            TensorData::F32(data) => {
+                                MmFeatureArray::F32(data.into_pyarray(py).unbind())
+                            }
+                            TensorData::I64(data) => {
+                                MmFeatureArray::I64(data.into_pyarray(py).unbind())
+                            }
+                            TensorData::Bf16(data) => {
+                                MmFeatureArray::Bf16(data.into_pyarray(py).unbind())
+                            }
+                        };
+                        Py::new(
+                            py,
+                            ExternalMmItemResult {
+                                modality: item.modality,
+                                feature,
+                                shape: item.feature.shape,
+                                hash: item.hash,
+                                offsets: item.offsets,
+                                model_specific_data: item.model_specific_data,
+                            },
+                        )
+                    })
+                    .collect::<PyResult<_>>()?;
+                Ok(Self {
+                    features: None,
+                    shm_names: None,
+                    hashes: Vec::new(),
+                    offsets: Vec::new(),
+                    grids: Vec::new(),
+                    mrope: Vec::<i64>::new().into_pyarray(py).unbind(),
+                    mrope_delta: 0,
+                    external_items,
+                    external_token_ids: Some(entry.token_ids),
+                })
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 /// Columnar request batch handed to Python by [`Server::recv_requests`].
 /// `frozen`: immutable snapshot, so field access never contends on a borrow.
 #[pyclass(frozen, get_all)]
-struct RequestBatch {
+pub struct RequestBatch {
     /// One msgpack scalar header per request (`input_ids` omitted).
     headers: Vec<Py<PyBytes>>,
     /// The raw-data plane today just all requests' raw little-endian int64
@@ -75,7 +201,7 @@ struct RequestBatch {
 /// Handle owned by the Python scheduler process. Construct once via
 /// [`Server::start`], then poll it from the scheduler event loop.
 #[pyclass]
-struct Server {
+pub struct Server {
     rt: runtime::Runtime,
 }
 
@@ -96,7 +222,7 @@ impl Server {
     // pyo3 `#[new]` constructor: the wide arg list is the Python-facing boot
     // surface (all optional overrides), not a call-site ergonomics problem.
     #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
-    fn start(
+    pub fn start(
         server_args: ServerArgs,
         port_offset: Option<u16>, // DP rank; listen on server_args.port + offset
         to_scheduler_cap: usize,
@@ -126,14 +252,14 @@ impl Server {
             server_args: std::sync::Arc::new(server_args),
         };
         let rt = runtime::start(cfg).map_err(|e| value_error("runtime start failed", e))?;
-        Ok(Server { rt })
+        Ok(Self { rt })
     }
 
     /// Non-blocking drain of the to_scheduler channel, returned **columnar** as an
     /// [`RequestBatch`] so the large `input_ids` tensor never goes through
     /// msgpack (see the field docs for the layout).
     #[pyo3(signature = (max = 256))]
-    fn recv_requests(&self, py: Python<'_>, max: usize) -> PyResult<RequestBatch> {
+    pub fn recv_requests(&self, py: Python<'_>, max: usize) -> PyResult<RequestBatch> {
         let cols = self.rt.to_scheduler_rx.drain(max);
         let headers = cols
             .headers
@@ -154,7 +280,7 @@ impl Server {
     /// Park up to `timeout_ms` for an incoming request so the idle scheduler loop
     /// sleeps instead of spinning at 100% CPU.
     #[pyo3(signature = (timeout_ms = 1000))]
-    fn wait_request(&self, py: Python<'_>, timeout_ms: u64) -> bool {
+    pub fn wait_request(&self, py: Python<'_>, timeout_ms: u64) -> bool {
         py.detach(|| {
             self.rt
                 .to_scheduler_rx
@@ -165,7 +291,7 @@ impl Server {
     /// Push a whole decode batch as ONE frame: a columnar msgpack `header` plus
     /// the raw `data_cols` (per-column `bytes`), concatenated here. Blocks for
     /// backpressure; `False` only on shutdown.
-    fn push_decode_result_batch(
+    pub fn push_decode_result_batch(
         &self,
         py: Python<'_>,
         header: &[u8],
@@ -180,7 +306,7 @@ impl Server {
 
     /// Push a control-request result. Blocks for backpressure; `False` only on
     /// shutdown.
-    fn push_control_result(&self, py: Python<'_>, rid: &str, payload: &[u8]) -> bool {
+    pub fn push_control_result(&self, py: Python<'_>, rid: &str, payload: &[u8]) -> bool {
         self.push_frame(
             py,
             crate::message::response::frame_control_result(rid, payload),
@@ -189,7 +315,7 @@ impl Server {
 
     /// Route a terminal failure back to request `rid`. Blocks for backpressure;
     /// `False` only on shutdown.
-    fn push_error(&self, py: Python<'_>, rid: &str, message: &str) -> bool {
+    pub fn push_error(&self, py: Python<'_>, rid: &str, message: &str) -> bool {
         self.push_frame(py, crate::message::response::frame_error(rid, message))
     }
 
@@ -198,7 +324,7 @@ impl Server {
     /// `RustServer._build_mm_spec`). Image-only requests are processed entirely
     /// in Rust and parked for [`Server::take_mm_result`]; anything the pipeline
     /// cannot serve is rejected back to the client — there is no Python fallback.
-    fn start_mm_workers(&self, spec: MmSpec, workers: usize) -> PyResult<()> {
+    pub fn start_mm_workers(&self, spec: MmSpec, workers: usize) -> PyResult<()> {
         self.rt
             .start_mm_workers(spec, workers)
             .map_err(|e| value_error("mm spec", e))
@@ -212,39 +338,27 @@ impl Server {
     /// Runs on the scheduler loop between decode steps, so any per-byte work
     /// here — memcpy or hashing, tens of MB per image-heavy request — would
     /// stall every running request's ITL. Hence the worker-precomputed `hashes`.
-    fn take_mm_result(&self, py: Python<'_>, rid: &str) -> Option<MmEncodedResult> {
-        use numpy::IntoPyArray;
-
-        let res = self.rt.mm_results.take(rid)?;
-        let (features, shm_names) = match res.features {
-            multi_modality::result_store::FeatureStore::Inline(v) => {
-                (Some(v.into_pyarray(py).unbind()), None)
-            }
-            // The segments — and the duty to unlink — move to Python here;
-            // `materialize()` unlinks after the post-broadcast clone on each rank.
-            multi_modality::result_store::FeatureStore::Shm(segments) => (
-                None,
-                Some(segments.into_iter().map(|s| s.into_name()).collect()),
-            ),
-        };
-        Some(MmEncodedResult {
-            features,
-            shm_names,
-            grids: res.grids.iter().map(|g| (g[0], g[1], g[2])).collect(),
-            hashes: res.hashes,
-            offsets: res.offsets,
-            mrope: res.mrope.into_pyarray(py).unbind(),
-            mrope_delta: res.mrope_delta,
-        })
+    pub fn take_mm_result(&self, py: Python<'_>, rid: &str) -> PyResult<Option<MmEncodedResult>> {
+        self.rt
+            .mm_results
+            .take(rid)
+            .map(|entry| MmEncodedResult::from_entry(py, entry))
+            .transpose()
     }
 
     /// Signal all threads to stop (best effort).
-    fn shutdown(&self) {
+    pub fn shutdown(&self) {
         self.rt.request_shutdown();
     }
 }
 
 impl Server {
+    /// Start the shared worker pool with a processor supplied by an external
+    /// model package. The default Python API retains the built-in Qwen path.
+    pub fn start_mm_workers_with_processor(&self, processor: Arc<dyn MmProcessor>, workers: usize) {
+        self.rt.start_mm_workers_with_processor(processor, workers);
+    }
+
     /// Hand one already-framed message to the ring. Shared by every push path —
     /// they differ solely in how the frame is built. `false` only on shutdown.
     #[inline]
@@ -259,8 +373,9 @@ impl Server {
     }
 }
 
-#[pymodule]
-fn _server(m: &Bound<'_, PyModule>) -> PyResult<()> {
+/// Register all Python boundary types used by [`Server`]. External
+/// model-package modules call this before exposing their wrapper server.
+pub fn register_boundary_types(m: &Bound<'_, PyModule>) -> PyResult<()> {
     logging::init_tracing();
     m.add_class::<DisaggregationMode>()?;
     m.add_class::<DefaultSamplingParams>()?;
@@ -269,8 +384,17 @@ fn _server(m: &Bound<'_, PyModule>) -> PyResult<()> {
     m.add_class::<MmFamily>()?;
     m.add_class::<MmResample>()?;
     m.add_class::<MmSpec>()?;
-    m.add_class::<Server>()?;
     m.add_class::<RequestBatch>()?;
     m.add_class::<MmEncodedResult>()?;
+    m.add_class::<ExternalMmItemResult>()?;
+    m.add_class::<MmModality>()?;
+    m.add_class::<MmTokenIds>()?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+#[pymodule]
+fn _server(m: &Bound<'_, PyModule>) -> PyResult<()> {
+    m.add_class::<Server>()?;
+    register_boundary_types(m)?;
     Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/rust/sglang-server/src/message/finish_reason.rs b/rust/sglang-server/src/message/finish_reason.rs
index a72011ee7..f517aa36f 100644
--- a/rust/sglang-server/src/message/finish_reason.rs
+++ b/rust/sglang-server/src/message/finish_reason.rs
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ pub enum FinishReason {
     /// This arm is why the outer enum is untagged: a finish reason added Python-side
     /// must not fail the header decode, which rejects the whole frame — every
     /// request in the batch, not just the one that carried it.
-    // Keep the native frame compact even when HTTP/rendering dependencies turn
-    // on serde_json's large `preserve_order` map representation.
+    // Keep the scheduler response compact even when HTTP/rendering dependencies
+    // turn on serde_json's large `preserve_order` map representation.
     Unknown(Box<serde_json::Map<String, serde_json::Value>>),
 }
 
diff --git a/rust/sglang-server/src/message/request.rs b/rust/sglang-server/src/message/request.rs
index 8261103c3..65a3a824a 100644
--- a/rust/sglang-server/src/message/request.rs
+++ b/rust/sglang-server/src/message/request.rs
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 //! The `/generate` request path: the HTTP body and its per-request fan-out
 //! ([`GenerateBody`] → [`GenerateRequest`]s).
 
-use std::collections::HashSet;
+use std::collections::{BTreeMap, HashSet};
 use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
 use bytes::Bytes;
 use itertools::izip;
-use serde::Deserialize;
+use serde::{Deserialize, de::DeserializeOwned};
 
 use super::io_struct::{ControlRequest, TokenizedGenerateReqInput};
 use super::multimodal::{self, MmDataInput, MmItem};
@@ -44,18 +44,53 @@ const MAX_BROADCAST_CLONE_BYTES: usize = 64 << 20;
 /// the wire form does not); 8 is the ceiling of that range, not a worst case.
 const JSON_TO_HEAP_FACTOR: usize = 8;
 
+/// Top-level fields in this namespace belong to the selected multimodal
+/// processor. Everything else unknown to [`GenerateBody`] keeps Python's
+/// accepted-but-ignored behavior.
+const PROCESSOR_EXTENSION_PREFIX: &str = "multimodal_";
+
+/// Model-owned request fields. The shared server preserves and batches their
+/// MessagePack value representation; the selected processor deserializes that
+/// map into its own concrete schema.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(transparent)]
+pub struct ProcessorExtensions(BTreeMap<String, rmpv::Value>);
+
+impl ProcessorExtensions {
+    /// Deserialize the model-agnostic value tree directly into the selected
+    /// processor's schema. This does not encode or decode MessagePack bytes.
+    pub fn deserialize<T: DeserializeOwned>(self) -> Result<T, String> {
+        let fields = self
+            .0
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(|(name, value)| (rmpv::Value::from(name), value))
+            .collect();
+        rmpv::ext::from_value(rmpv::Value::Map(fields))
+            .map_err(|error| format!("invalid processor extensions: {error}"))
+    }
+
+    pub(crate) fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
+        self.0.is_empty()
+    }
+
+    fn values(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = &rmpv::Value> {
+        self.0.values()
+    }
+}
+
+impl FromIterator<(String, rmpv::Value)> for ProcessorExtensions {
+    fn from_iter<T: IntoIterator<Item = (String, rmpv::Value)>>(iter: T) -> Self {
+        Self(iter.into_iter().collect())
+    }
+}
+
 /// The `/generate` wire body before batch splitting: `text`/`input_ids`/`sampling_params`
 /// each scalar-or-list, fanned into per-request [`GenerateRequest`]s by
 /// [`into_requests`](GenerateBody::into_requests).
 ///
-/// Unknown keys are IGNORED, matching Python: FastAPI builds `GenerateReqInput`
-/// as a pydantic dataclass, which drops extras. `deny_unknown_fields` here turned
-/// every `GenerateReqInput` field this server has not ported — `priority`,
-/// `extra_key`, `session_id`, `session_params`, `return_sampling_mask`,
-/// `custom_logit_processor`, and ~40 more — into a 400, so a client that worked
-/// against the Python server broke against this one. The cost of dropping it is
-/// that a typo (`temperature`) is silently ignored rather than reported; that is
-/// the same trade Python already makes.
+/// Unknown keys are ignored, matching Python, except `multimodal_*` fields. Those
+/// are opaque processor extensions: this layer only fans them out with the
+/// request batch and passes them to the selected multimodal processor.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, Deserialize)]
 pub struct GenerateBody {
     /// Optional client-supplied request id(s): a single string (a batch fans it
@@ -105,6 +140,10 @@ pub struct GenerateBody {
     pub mm_hashes: Option<OneOrMany<Vec<String>>>,
     pub video_data: Option<MmDataInput>,
     pub audio_data: Option<MmDataInput>,
+    /// Model-specific multimodal fields, retained without teaching the shared
+    /// request schema their contents. Other unknown fields remain ignored.
+    #[serde(flatten)]
+    processor_extensions: ProcessorExtensions,
 }
 
 impl GenerateBody {
@@ -150,9 +189,7 @@ impl GenerateBody {
             video_data,
             audio_data,
             mm_hashes,
-            // Unported `GenerateReqInput` fields land here and are dropped, as they
-            // are on the Python path.
-            ..
+            processor_extensions,
         } = self;
 
         // Cap the batch BEFORE the columns below allocate anything. Reading the
@@ -359,6 +396,7 @@ impl GenerateBody {
         let images = multimodal::fan_out(image_data, n, is_batch, "image_data")?;
         let videos = multimodal::fan_out(video_data, n, is_batch, "video_data")?;
         let audios = multimodal::fan_out(audio_data, n, is_batch, "audio_data")?;
+        let processor_extensions = split_extension_columns(processor_extensions, n, is_batch)?;
 
         // Every column above is exactly `n` long, so zip them by value: each
         // request takes ownership of its cell, with no indexing or bounds checks.
@@ -380,6 +418,7 @@ impl GenerateBody {
             images,
             videos,
             audios,
+            processor_extensions,
         )
         .map(
             |(
@@ -400,11 +439,12 @@ impl GenerateBody {
                 image_data,
                 video_data,
                 audio_data,
+                processor_extensions,
             )| GenerateRequest {
                 rid,
                 text,
                 input_ids,
-                // Native text prompts keep the post-processor specials; the
+                // Plain text prompts keep the post-processor specials; the
                 // chat flow sets this explicitly.
                 skip_special_tokens: false,
                 sampling_params,
@@ -426,7 +466,7 @@ impl GenerateBody {
                 decode_tp_size,
                 routed_dp_rank,
                 disagg_prefill_dp_rank,
-                mm: pack_mm(image_data, video_data, audio_data),
+                mm: pack_mm(image_data, video_data, audio_data, processor_extensions),
             },
         )
         .collect();
@@ -445,18 +485,72 @@ fn pack_mm(
     image_data: Vec<MmItem>,
     video_data: Vec<MmItem>,
     audio_data: Vec<MmItem>,
+    processor_extensions: ProcessorExtensions,
 ) -> Option<Box<MmData>> {
-    if image_data.is_empty() && video_data.is_empty() && audio_data.is_empty() {
+    if image_data.is_empty()
+        && video_data.is_empty()
+        && audio_data.is_empty()
+        && processor_extensions.is_empty()
+    {
         return None;
     }
     Some(Box::new(MmData {
         image_data,
         video_data,
         audio_data,
+        processor_extensions,
         ..Default::default()
     }))
 }
 
+fn split_extension_columns(
+    fields: ProcessorExtensions,
+    n: usize,
+    is_batch: bool,
+) -> Result<Vec<ProcessorExtensions>, Error> {
+    let mut requests = vec![ProcessorExtensions::default(); n];
+    for (name, value) in fields.0 {
+        if !name.starts_with(PROCESSOR_EXTENSION_PREFIX) || value.is_nil() {
+            continue;
+        }
+        if !is_batch {
+            requests[0].0.insert(name, value);
+            continue;
+        }
+        let rmpv::Value::Array(values) = value else {
+            return Err(Error::Validation(format!(
+                "{name} must be a list for batch processing"
+            )));
+        };
+        if values.is_empty() {
+            for request in &mut requests {
+                request
+                    .0
+                    .insert(name.clone(), rmpv::Value::Array(Vec::new()));
+            }
+            continue;
+        }
+        if values.len() != n {
+            return Err(Error::Validation(format!(
+                "{name} list length {} does not match batch size {n}",
+                values.len()
+            )));
+        }
+        for (request, value) in requests.iter_mut().zip(values) {
+            request.0.insert(name.clone(), value);
+        }
+    }
+    Ok(requests)
+}
+
+fn extension_value_present(value: &rmpv::Value) -> bool {
+    match value {
+        rmpv::Value::Nil => false,
+        rmpv::Value::Array(values) => values.iter().any(extension_value_present),
+        _ => true,
+    }
+}
+
 /// One request handed to the MM worker pool: the rid to correlate the result,
 /// plus the owned inputs from [`GenerateRequest::take_mm_work`].
 #[derive(Debug)]
@@ -474,6 +568,7 @@ pub struct MmWorkItem {
     pub image_data: Vec<MmItem>,
     pub video_data: Vec<MmItem>,
     pub audio_data: Vec<MmItem>,
+    pub processor_extensions: ProcessorExtensions,
     /// See [`MmData::prefetched`].
     pub prefetched: Vec<Bytes>,
     /// See [`GenerateBody::mm_hashes`].
@@ -606,6 +701,7 @@ pub struct MmData {
     pub image_data: Vec<MmItem>,
     pub video_data: Vec<MmItem>,
     pub audio_data: Vec<MmItem>,
+    pub processor_extensions: ProcessorExtensions,
     /// Bytes of `image_data`'s I/O-backed sources, resolved by
     /// `api_server::prefetch` in `payload::io_sources` order so MM workers
     /// never block on I/O. Out-of-band: the values above stay as the client
@@ -625,7 +721,13 @@ impl GenerateRequest {
     /// Python `GenerateReqInput.contains_mm_input()`.
     pub fn has_multimodal(&self) -> bool {
         self.mm.as_ref().is_some_and(|mm| {
-            !mm.image_data.is_empty() || !mm.video_data.is_empty() || !mm.audio_data.is_empty()
+            !mm.image_data.is_empty()
+                || !mm.video_data.is_empty()
+                || !mm.audio_data.is_empty()
+                || mm
+                    .processor_extensions
+                    .values()
+                    .any(extension_value_present)
         })
     }
 
@@ -642,6 +744,7 @@ impl GenerateRequest {
             work.image_data = std::mem::take(&mut m.image_data);
             work.video_data = std::mem::take(&mut m.video_data);
             work.audio_data = std::mem::take(&mut m.audio_data);
+            work.processor_extensions = std::mem::take(&mut m.processor_extensions);
             work.prefetched = std::mem::take(&mut m.prefetched);
             work.mm_hashes = std::mem::take(&mut m.mm_hashes);
         }
@@ -751,6 +854,17 @@ fn fan_out<T: OneOrManyItem + Clone + HeapBytes>(
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
 
+    #[derive(Debug, Deserialize, PartialEq)]
+    struct TestProcessorExtensions {
+        multimodal_custom: TestProcessorExtension,
+    }
+
+    #[derive(Debug, Deserialize, PartialEq)]
+    #[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
+    struct TestProcessorExtension {
+        value: i64,
+    }
+
     /// Vocab size for tests that aren't about the vocab bound (see
     /// `sampling::tests::TEST_VOCAB`).
     const TEST_VOCAB: u64 = 1000;
@@ -972,6 +1086,89 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(ps[1].has_multimodal());
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn multimodal_extensions_follow_request_batch_shape() {
+        let single = r#"{"input_ids":[9],"image_data":"u","multimodal_placeholders":[{"type":"image","token_index":0,"item_index":0}]}"#;
+        let (reqs, is_batch) = requests(single).unwrap();
+        assert!(!is_batch);
+        let value = reqs[0]
+            .mm
+            .as_ref()
+            .unwrap()
+            .processor_extensions
+            .0
+            .get("multimodal_placeholders")
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(value.as_array().unwrap().len(), 1);
+
+        let batched = r#"{"input_ids":[[9],[8]],"image_data":["u","v"],"multimodal_placeholders":[[{"type":"image","token_index":0,"item_index":0}],[{"type":"image","token_index":0,"item_index":0}]]}"#;
+        let (reqs, is_batch) = requests(batched).unwrap();
+        assert!(is_batch);
+        assert_eq!(reqs.len(), 2);
+        assert!(reqs.iter().all(GenerateRequest::has_multimodal));
+        assert!(reqs.iter().all(|request| {
+            request
+                .mm
+                .as_ref()
+                .and_then(|mm| mm.processor_extensions.0.get("multimodal_placeholders"))
+                .and_then(rmpv::Value::as_array)
+                .is_some_and(|placeholders| placeholders.len() == 1)
+        }));
+
+        let invalid = r#"{"input_ids":[[9],[8]],"image_data":["u","v"],"multimodal_placeholders":[{"type":"image","token_index":0,"item_index":0}]}"#;
+        assert!(requests(invalid).is_err());
+
+        let generic = r#"{"input_ids":[[9],[8]],"image_data":["u","v"],"multimodal_custom":[{"value":1},{"value":2}]}"#;
+        let (reqs, _) = requests(generic).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            reqs[1]
+                .mm
+                .as_ref()
+                .unwrap()
+                .processor_extensions
+                .0
+                .get("multimodal_custom")
+                .unwrap()
+                .as_map()
+                .unwrap()[0]
+                .1
+                .as_i64(),
+            Some(2)
+        );
+
+        let extensions: TestProcessorExtensions =
+            requests(r#"{"input_ids":[9],"multimodal_custom":{"value":3}}"#)
+                .unwrap()
+                .0
+                .pop()
+                .unwrap()
+                .mm
+                .unwrap()
+                .processor_extensions
+                .deserialize()
+                .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(extensions.multimodal_custom.value, 3);
+
+        for fields in [
+            r#"{"multimodal_custom":{"value":true}}"#,
+            r#"{"multimodal_custom":{"value":"3"}}"#,
+            r#"{"multimodal_custom":{"value":3,"unknown":0}}"#,
+            r#"{"multimodal_custom":{}}"#,
+        ] {
+            let extensions: ProcessorExtensions = serde_json::from_str(fields).unwrap();
+            assert!(
+                extensions.deserialize::<TestProcessorExtensions>().is_err(),
+                "{fields}"
+            );
+        }
+
+        let (reqs, _) = requests(r#"{"text":"hi","totally_made_up":1}"#).unwrap();
+        assert!(reqs[0].mm.is_none());
+
+        let (reqs, _) = requests(r#"{"input_ids":[9],"multimodal_custom":null}"#).unwrap();
+        assert!(!reqs[0].has_multimodal());
+    }
+
     /// A scalar broadcast is budget-checked before the deep clones (16 MiB ×
     /// 4096 prompts would be 64 GiB and an abort); per-item lists clone nothing
     /// and are never charged.
diff --git a/rust/sglang-server/src/multi_modality/payload.rs b/rust/sglang-server/src/multi_modality/payload.rs
index 7c2d3277f..e8a89b894 100644
--- a/rust/sglang-server/src/multi_modality/payload.rs
+++ b/rust/sglang-server/src/multi_modality/payload.rs
@@ -6,10 +6,89 @@
 //! precomputed features, …).
 
 use bytes::Bytes;
+use sglang_mm::common::fetch::{ByteBudget, fetch_bytes_budgeted};
 use sglang_mm::driver::{ImageSource, MmInput};
 
 use crate::message::multimodal::MmItem;
-use crate::message::request::MmWorkItem;
+use crate::message::request::{MmWorkItem, ProcessorExtensions};
+
+/// Fully resolved media for a multimodal processor. I/O sources were
+/// prefetched on the async API layer; data URLs and bare base64 are decoded on
+/// the MM worker.
+pub struct ResolvedMediaWork {
+    pub text: Option<String>,
+    pub input_ids: Option<Vec<i32>>,
+    pub images: Vec<Bytes>,
+    pub videos: Vec<Bytes>,
+    pub audios: Vec<Bytes>,
+    /// Request fields owned by the selected processor rather than this shared
+    /// payload layer.
+    pub processor_extensions: ProcessorExtensions,
+}
+
+/// Resolve all modality fields in the fixed image/video/audio prefetch order.
+pub fn resolve_media_work(work: MmWorkItem) -> Result<ResolvedMediaWork, String> {
+    resolve_media_work_with_budget(work, sglang_mm::driver::MAX_REQUEST_BYTES)
+}
+
+fn resolve_media_work_with_budget(
+    work: MmWorkItem,
+    max_request_bytes: u64,
+) -> Result<ResolvedMediaWork, String> {
+    let MmWorkItem {
+        text,
+        input_ids,
+        image_data,
+        video_data,
+        audio_data,
+        processor_extensions,
+        prefetched,
+        mm_hashes: _,
+    } = work;
+    let mut prefetched = prefetched.into_iter();
+    let budget = ByteBudget::new(max_request_bytes);
+    let images = collect_media(image_data, &mut prefetched, "image_data", &budget)?;
+    let videos = collect_media(video_data, &mut prefetched, "video_data", &budget)?;
+    let audios = collect_media(audio_data, &mut prefetched, "audio_data", &budget)?;
+    if prefetched.next().is_some() {
+        return Err("media prefetch produced more payloads than the request consumes".into());
+    }
+    Ok(ResolvedMediaWork {
+        text,
+        input_ids,
+        images,
+        videos,
+        audios,
+        processor_extensions,
+    })
+}
+
+fn collect_media(
+    items: Vec<MmItem>,
+    prefetched: &mut std::vec::IntoIter<Bytes>,
+    field: &str,
+    budget: &ByteBudget,
+) -> Result<Vec<Bytes>, String> {
+    items
+        .into_iter()
+        .map(|item| match item {
+            MmItem::Source(source) | MmItem::Ref { url: source } => {
+                if is_io_source(&source) {
+                    let bytes = prefetched
+                        .next()
+                        .ok_or_else(|| format!("I/O-backed {field} source was not prefetched"))?;
+                    budget.charge_existing(bytes.len(), field)?;
+                    Ok(bytes)
+                } else {
+                    fetch_bytes_budgeted(&source, budget).map(Bytes::from)
+                }
+            }
+            MmItem::Preprocessed { format } => Err(format!(
+                "unsupported {field} item: preprocessed `{format}` input"
+            )),
+        })
+        .collect()
+}
 
 /// True for sources the API layer must resolve before MM dispatch: I/O — network
 /// *or* disk, since a network mount can hang past any HTTP timeout — never runs
@@ -43,12 +122,16 @@ pub fn to_mm_input(work: MmWorkItem) -> Result<MmInput, String> {
         image_data,
         video_data,
         audio_data,
+        processor_extensions,
         prefetched,
         mm_hashes: _,
     } = work;
     if !video_data.is_empty() || !audio_data.is_empty() {
         return Err("unsupported modality: video/audio input".into());
     }
+    if !processor_extensions.is_empty() {
+        return Err("unsupported generate extensions for this processor".into());
+    }
     let mut prefetched = prefetched.iter();
     let images = image_data
         .into_iter()
@@ -124,6 +207,21 @@ mod tests {
         .err()
         .unwrap();
         assert!(err.contains("preprocessed `processor_output`"), "{err}");
+
+        let extension = MmWorkItem {
+            processor_extensions: std::iter::once((
+                "multimodal_custom".to_owned(),
+                rmpv::Value::Boolean(true),
+            ))
+            .collect(),
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        assert!(
+            to_mm_input(extension)
+                .err()
+                .unwrap()
+                .contains("unsupported generate extensions")
+        );
     }
 
     /// I/O-backed sources (URLs, file paths) take their prefetched bytes in walk
@@ -163,4 +261,59 @@ mod tests {
                 .contains("no raw image sources")
         );
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn resolved_media_shares_one_byte_budget_across_source_forms() {
+        let work = MmWorkItem {
+            image_data: vec![src("YWJjZA=="), src("ZWZnaA==")],
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        let err = resolve_media_work_with_budget(work, 7).err().unwrap();
+        assert!(err.contains("request media byte budget"), "{err}");
+
+        let work = MmWorkItem {
+            image_data: vec![src("YWJjZA==")],
+            video_data: vec![src("ZWZnaA==")],
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        let err = resolve_media_work_with_budget(work, 7).err().unwrap();
+        assert!(err.contains("request media byte budget"), "{err}");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn resolved_media_preserves_order_and_prefetched_allocations() {
+        let image = Bytes::from(vec![1, 2]);
+        let video = Bytes::from(vec![3, 4]);
+        let image_ptr = image.as_ptr();
+        let video_ptr = video.as_ptr();
+        let work = MmWorkItem {
+            image_data: vec![src("/image"), src("BQY=")],
+            video_data: vec![src("https://example.test/video")],
+            audio_data: vec![src("Bwg=")],
+            prefetched: vec![image, video],
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        let resolved = resolve_media_work_with_budget(work, 8).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(resolved.images[0].as_ptr(), image_ptr);
+        assert_eq!(resolved.videos[0].as_ptr(), video_ptr);
+        assert_eq!(resolved.images[1].as_ref(), [5, 6]);
+        assert_eq!(resolved.audios[0].as_ref(), [7, 8]);
+
+        for work in [
+            image_work(vec![src("/missing")]),
+            MmWorkItem {
+                prefetched: vec![Bytes::from_static(b"extra")],
+                ..Default::default()
+            },
+        ] {
+            assert!(resolve_media_work(work).is_err());
+        }
+        let work = MmWorkItem {
+            image_data: vec![src("/image")],
+            audio_data: vec![src("Bwg=")],
+            prefetched: vec![Bytes::from_static(b"1234")],
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        assert!(resolve_media_work_with_budget(work, 5).is_err());
+    }
 }
diff --git a/rust/sglang-server/src/multi_modality/result_store.rs b/rust/sglang-server/src/multi_modality/result_store.rs
index 75f261e99..14412b0a9 100644
--- a/rust/sglang-server/src/multi_modality/result_store.rs
+++ b/rust/sglang-server/src/multi_modality/result_store.rs
@@ -1,21 +1,16 @@
 //! Rid-keyed parking of finished results between an MM worker and the
 //! scheduler drain.
 
-use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::collections::{BTreeMap, HashMap};
 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
 
+use pyo3::prelude::*;
+use sglang_mm::pipeline::Tensor;
+
 use super::shm::{ShmSegment, shm_name};
 
-/// One parked result: the buffers the drain-time Python adapter needs (the
-/// expanded `input_ids` travel separately, via `TmEvent::MmEncoded`).
-///
-/// TODO(mm-families): these fields are the shape the only current family
-/// (qwen_vl) produces; generalize to a named-tensor handoff when a family
-/// needs a different one.
-///
-/// Constructed from outside the module only by tests; the worker parks every
-/// real entry itself.
-pub struct MmEncodedEntry {
+/// The built-in Qwen drain shape.
+pub struct QwenMmEncodedEntry {
     pub features: FeatureStore,
     /// Per item `[t, h, w]` patch grid.
     pub grids: Vec<[u32; 3]>,
@@ -27,6 +22,78 @@ pub struct MmEncodedEntry {
     pub mrope_delta: i64,
 }
 
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
+#[pyclass(frozen, eq, hash, skip_from_py_object)]
+pub enum MmModality {
+    Image,
+    Video,
+    Audio,
+}
+
+/// Placeholder and boundary tokens consumed by `MultimodalProcessorOutput`.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
+#[pyclass(frozen, get_all, skip_from_py_object)]
+pub struct MmTokenIds {
+    pub im_token_id: Option<i32>,
+    pub im_start_id: Option<i32>,
+    pub im_end_id: Option<i32>,
+    pub video_token_id: Option<i32>,
+    pub audio_token_id: Option<i32>,
+    pub audio_start_id: Option<i32>,
+    pub audio_end_id: Option<i32>,
+}
+
+/// One media item produced by an external processor, including its features
+/// and inclusive token spans in the expanded prompt.
+pub struct ExternalMmItem {
+    pub modality: MmModality,
+    pub feature: Tensor,
+    pub hash: u64,
+    pub offsets: Vec<(u32, u32)>,
+    /// Processor-owned integer attributes, such as a clip index and count.
+    pub model_specific_data: BTreeMap<String, i64>,
+}
+
+/// Encoded data produced by an external processor implementation and consumed
+/// by its Python integration.
+pub struct ExternalMmEncodedEntry {
+    pub items: Vec<ExternalMmItem>,
+    pub token_ids: MmTokenIds,
+}
+
+impl ExternalMmEncodedEntry {
+    pub(super) fn validate(&self, input_len: usize) -> Result<(), String> {
+        for (index, item) in self.items.iter().enumerate() {
+            let elements = item
+                .feature
+                .shape
+                .iter()
+                .try_fold(1usize, |size, &dim| size.checked_mul(dim));
+            if elements != Some(item.feature.data.len()) {
+                return Err(format!(
+                    "multimodal item {index}: feature shape does not match its data"
+                ));
+            }
+            if item
+                .offsets
+                .iter()
+                .any(|&(start, end)| start > end || end as usize >= input_len)
+            {
+                return Err(format!(
+                    "multimodal item {index}: token offsets are outside the expanded prompt"
+                ));
+            }
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
+/// Encoded data parked between a multimodal worker and the scheduler drain.
+pub enum MmEncodedEntry {
+    Qwen(QwenMmEncodedEntry),
+    External(ExternalMmEncodedEntry),
+}
+
 /// Where a result's feature buffers live between worker and drain.
 pub enum FeatureStore {
     /// In-process; the drain wraps them zero-copy. Single-rank serving, or the
diff --git a/rust/sglang-server/src/multi_modality/worker.rs b/rust/sglang-server/src/multi_modality/worker.rs
index 3a37ac8f0..424669082 100644
--- a/rust/sglang-server/src/multi_modality/worker.rs
+++ b/rust/sglang-server/src/multi_modality/worker.rs
@@ -3,10 +3,12 @@
 
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
-use super::result_store::{FeatureStore, MmEncodedEntry, MmResultStore, park_features_in_shm};
+use super::result_store::{
+    FeatureStore, MmEncodedEntry, MmResultStore, QwenMmEncodedEntry, park_features_in_shm,
+};
 use crate::message::config::MmSpec;
 use crate::message::ids::Rid;
-use crate::message::request::MmRequest;
+use crate::message::request::{MmRequest, MmWorkItem};
 use crate::tokenizer_manager::tokenizer::TextTokenizer;
 use crate::tokenizer_manager::wiring::TmEvent;
 use crate::utils::runtime::Runnable;
@@ -14,7 +16,7 @@ use crate::utils::runtime::Runnable;
 /// Python parity: caller hashes override the computed ones so an external
 /// router's keys align with the prefix cache. A length mismatch or malformed
 /// entry warns and keeps the computed hash — never blocks the request.
-fn apply_caller_hashes(hashes: &mut [u64], caller: &[String]) {
+fn apply_caller_hashes<'a>(hashes: impl ExactSizeIterator<Item = &'a mut u64>, caller: &[String]) {
     if caller.is_empty() {
         return;
     }
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ fn apply_caller_hashes(hashes: &mut [u64], caller: &[String]) {
         );
         return;
     }
-    for (hash, entry) in hashes.iter_mut().zip(caller) {
+    for (hash, entry) in hashes.zip(caller) {
         match parse_caller_hash(entry) {
             Some(v) => *hash = v,
             None => tracing::warn!(%entry, "malformed mm_hashes entry; keeping computed hash"),
@@ -45,16 +47,76 @@ fn parse_caller_hash(entry: &str) -> Option<u64> {
     u64::from_str_radix(&hex[hex.len().saturating_sub(16)..], 16).ok()
 }
 
-/// Shared state of the mm path, built once at `start_mm_workers`.
+/// Complete result of one multimodal processor invocation.
+pub struct MmProcessOutput {
+    pub input_ids: Vec<i32>,
+    pub result: MmEncodedEntry,
+}
+
+/// Multimodal processor shared by built-in and external implementations.
+/// Implementations run on the fixed Rust worker pool and must not retain
+/// request-scoped Python objects.
+pub trait MmProcessor: Send + Sync {
+    fn process(
+        &self,
+        work: MmWorkItem,
+        tokenizer: Option<&dyn TextTokenizer>,
+    ) -> Result<MmProcessOutput, String>;
+}
+
+struct QwenMmProcessor {
+    family: Box<dyn sglang_mm::pipeline::MmFamilyProcessor>,
+    feature_shm: bool,
+}
+
+impl QwenMmProcessor {
+    fn new(spec: MmSpec) -> Result<Self, String> {
+        Ok(Self {
+            family: sglang_mm::registry::build_pipeline(spec.pipeline)?,
+            feature_shm: spec.feature_shm,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+impl MmProcessor for QwenMmProcessor {
+    fn process(
+        &self,
+        work: MmWorkItem,
+        tokenizer: Option<&dyn TextTokenizer>,
+    ) -> Result<MmProcessOutput, String> {
+        let input = super::payload::to_mm_input(work)?;
+        let output = sglang_mm::driver::process(self.family.as_ref(), input, |text| {
+            let tokenizer = tokenizer.ok_or_else(|| {
+                "skip_tokenizer_init is set: multimodal text prompts require input_ids".to_string()
+            })?;
+            tokenizer.encode(text).map_err(|error| error.to_string())
+        })?;
+        let drain = sglang_mm::qwen_vl::pack_output(output)?;
+        let features = if self.feature_shm {
+            park_features_in_shm(&drain.features, &drain.grids)
+        } else {
+            FeatureStore::Inline(drain.features)
+        };
+        Ok(MmProcessOutput {
+            input_ids: drain.input_ids,
+            result: MmEncodedEntry::Qwen(QwenMmEncodedEntry {
+                features,
+                grids: drain.grids,
+                hashes: drain.hashes,
+                offsets: drain.offsets,
+                mrope: drain.mrope,
+                mrope_delta: drain.mrope_delta,
+            }),
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+/// Shared state of the multimodal path, built once at worker startup.
 pub struct MmContext {
-    pub family: Box<dyn sglang_mm::pipeline::MmFamilyProcessor>,
+    pub processor: Arc<dyn MmProcessor>,
     /// `None` under `skip_tokenizer_init` (requests must carry `input_ids`).
     pub tokenizer: Option<Arc<dyn TextTokenizer>>,
     pub results: MmResultStore,
-    /// Park feature buffers in POSIX shm. Set by the Python launcher
-    /// (`RustMmProcessor._use_feature_shm`) exactly when the scheduler broadcasts
-    /// across TP ranks and will unwrap `ShmPointerMMData`.
-    pub feature_shm: bool,
 }
 
 impl MmContext {
@@ -64,51 +126,42 @@ impl MmContext {
         results: MmResultStore,
     ) -> Result<Self, String> {
         Ok(Self {
-            family: sglang_mm::registry::build_pipeline(spec.pipeline)?,
+            processor: Arc::new(QwenMmProcessor::new(spec)?),
             tokenizer,
             results,
-            feature_shm: spec.feature_shm,
         })
     }
+
+    pub fn with_processor(
+        processor: Arc<dyn MmProcessor>,
+        tokenizer: Option<Arc<dyn TextTokenizer>>,
+        results: MmResultStore,
+    ) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            processor,
+            tokenizer,
+            results,
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 /// Run the pipeline for one request. `Ok` returns the final expanded ids, the
 /// buffers already parked; `Err` rejects the request back to the client.
-fn process(
-    ctx: &MmContext,
-    rid: &Rid,
-    mut work: crate::message::request::MmWorkItem,
-) -> Result<Vec<i32>, String> {
+fn process(ctx: &MmContext, rid: &Rid, mut work: MmWorkItem) -> Result<Vec<i32>, String> {
     let caller_hashes = std::mem::take(&mut work.mm_hashes);
-    let input = super::payload::to_mm_input(work)?;
-    let output = sglang_mm::driver::process(ctx.family.as_ref(), input, |text| {
-        let tokenizer = ctx.tokenizer.as_ref().ok_or_else(|| {
-            "skip_tokenizer_init is set: multimodal text prompts require input_ids".to_string()
-        })?;
-        tokenizer.encode(text).map_err(|error| error.to_string())
-    })?;
-    // TODO(mm-families): the one family-specific call in this worker — dispatch
-    // on the spec's `family` (as `registry::build_pipeline` does) once a
-    // second family lands.
-    let mut packed = sglang_mm::qwen_vl::pack_output(output)?;
-    apply_caller_hashes(&mut packed.hashes, &caller_hashes);
-    let features = if ctx.feature_shm {
-        park_features_in_shm(&packed.features, &packed.grids)
-    } else {
-        FeatureStore::Inline(packed.features)
-    };
-    ctx.results.park(
-        rid.as_str().to_owned(),
-        MmEncodedEntry {
-            features,
-            grids: packed.grids,
-            hashes: packed.hashes,
-            offsets: packed.offsets,
-            mrope: packed.mrope,
-            mrope_delta: packed.mrope_delta,
-        },
-    );
-    Ok(packed.input_ids)
+    let mut output = ctx.processor.process(work, ctx.tokenizer.as_deref())?;
+    match &mut output.result {
+        MmEncodedEntry::Qwen(entry) => apply_caller_hashes(entry.hashes.iter_mut(), &caller_hashes),
+        MmEncodedEntry::External(entry) => {
+            entry.validate(output.input_ids.len())?;
+            apply_caller_hashes(
+                entry.items.iter_mut().map(|item| &mut item.hash),
+                &caller_hashes,
+            );
+        }
+    }
+    ctx.results.park(rid.as_str().to_owned(), output.result);
+    Ok(output.input_ids)
 }
 
 /// Boot-time wiring of the MM path, held privately by the `Runtime` for the
@@ -171,19 +224,100 @@ impl Runnable for MmWorker {
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
+    use crate::{
+        ExternalMmEncodedEntry, ExternalMmItem, MmModality, MmTokenIds, Tensor, TensorData,
+    };
+
+    struct ExternalProcessor {
+        shape: Vec<usize>,
+        offsets: Vec<(u32, u32)>,
+    }
+
+    impl MmProcessor for ExternalProcessor {
+        fn process(
+            &self,
+            work: MmWorkItem,
+            tokenizer: Option<&dyn TextTokenizer>,
+        ) -> Result<MmProcessOutput, String> {
+            assert!(tokenizer.is_none());
+            Ok(MmProcessOutput {
+                input_ids: work.input_ids.unwrap_or_default(),
+                result: MmEncodedEntry::External(ExternalMmEncodedEntry {
+                    items: vec![ExternalMmItem {
+                        modality: MmModality::Image,
+                        feature: Tensor {
+                            shape: self.shape.clone(),
+                            data: TensorData::F32(vec![1.0]),
+                        },
+                        hash: 7,
+                        offsets: self.offsets.clone(),
+                        model_specific_data: Default::default(),
+                    }],
+                    token_ids: MmTokenIds::default(),
+                }),
+            })
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn external_processor_result_reaches_store() {
+        let results = MmResultStore::default();
+        let processor = ExternalProcessor {
+            shape: vec![1],
+            offsets: vec![(1, 1)],
+        };
+        let ctx = MmContext::with_processor(Arc::new(processor), None, results.clone());
+        let rid = Rid::from_client("external");
+        let work = MmWorkItem {
+            input_ids: Some(vec![1, 2]),
+            mm_hashes: vec!["2a".to_owned()],
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+
+        assert_eq!(process(&ctx, &rid, work).unwrap(), [1, 2]);
+        let Some(MmEncodedEntry::External(entry)) = results.take(rid.as_str()) else {
+            panic!("external processor must park an external entry")
+        };
+        assert_eq!(entry.items.len(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(entry.items[0].hash, 0x2a);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn malformed_processor_results_are_rejected_before_parking() {
+        for (shape, offsets) in [
+            (vec![2], vec![(1, 1)]),
+            (vec![usize::MAX, 2], vec![(1, 1)]),
+            (vec![1], vec![(2, 1)]),
+            (vec![1], vec![(1, 2)]),
+        ] {
+            let results = MmResultStore::default();
+            let processor = ExternalProcessor { shape, offsets };
+            let ctx = MmContext::with_processor(Arc::new(processor), None, results.clone());
+            let rid = Rid::from_client("invalid");
+            let work = MmWorkItem {
+                input_ids: Some(vec![1, 2]),
+                ..Default::default()
+            };
+            assert!(process(&ctx, &rid, work).is_err());
+            assert!(results.take(rid.as_str()).is_none());
+        }
+    }
 
     /// Caller hashes override computed ones; mismatched lengths and malformed
     /// entries fall back per item, never reject (Python parity).
     #[test]
     fn caller_hashes_override_with_fallback() {
         let mut hashes = vec![1, 2, 3];
-        apply_caller_hashes(&mut hashes, &[]);
+        apply_caller_hashes(hashes.iter_mut(), &[]);
         assert_eq!(hashes, [1, 2, 3]);
 
-        apply_caller_hashes(&mut hashes, &["ff".into()]); // length mismatch
+        apply_caller_hashes(hashes.iter_mut(), &["ff".into()]); // length mismatch
         assert_eq!(hashes, [1, 2, 3]);
 
-        apply_caller_hashes(&mut hashes, &["ff".into(), "not-hex".into(), "0x10".into()]);
+        apply_caller_hashes(
+            hashes.iter_mut(),
+            &["ff".into(), "not-hex".into(), "0x10".into()],
+        );
         assert_eq!(hashes, [0xff, 2, 0x10]);
     }
 
@@ -193,7 +327,7 @@ mod tests {
     fn caller_hashes_accept_arbitrary_width() {
         let sha256 = "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855";
         let mut hashes = vec![1];
-        apply_caller_hashes(&mut hashes, &[sha256.into()]);
+        apply_caller_hashes(hashes.iter_mut(), &[sha256.into()]);
         assert_eq!(hashes, [0xa495991b7852b855]);
         assert_eq!(hashes[0] % (1 << 30), 944_945_237); // int(sha256, 16) % (1 << 30)
 
diff --git a/rust/sglang-server/src/tokenizer_manager/from_scheduler.rs b/rust/sglang-server/src/tokenizer_manager/from_scheduler.rs
index 0b5dca72d..baaa41b04 100644
--- a/rust/sglang-server/src/tokenizer_manager/from_scheduler.rs
+++ b/rust/sglang-server/src/tokenizer_manager/from_scheduler.rs
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ use crate::tokenizer_manager::channel::FromSchedulerRx;
 use crate::tokenizer_manager::wiring::{Senders, recv};
 
 /// A monotonic counter bumped once per from_scheduler frame the dispatcher drains.
-/// It's the rust-native equivalent of the Python `TokenizerManager`'s
+/// Equivalent to the Python `TokenizerManager`'s
 /// `last_receive_tstamp`: `/health_generate` watches it advance to confirm the
 /// scheduler → detok path is alive (the value itself is meaningless).
 pub type ActivityCounter = Arc<AtomicU64>;
diff --git a/rust/sglang-server/src/tokenizer_manager/to_scheduler_tests.rs b/rust/sglang-server/src/tokenizer_manager/to_scheduler_tests.rs
index dda406708..2c16cb1fc 100644
--- a/rust/sglang-server/src/tokenizer_manager/to_scheduler_tests.rs
+++ b/rust/sglang-server/src/tokenizer_manager/to_scheduler_tests.rs
@@ -795,14 +795,16 @@ fn abort_cancels_parked_mm_request() {
     // The worker parks its result, as it always does before MmEncoded.
     intake.mm.results.park(
         "mm-gone".into(),
-        crate::multi_modality::result_store::MmEncodedEntry {
-            features: crate::multi_modality::result_store::FeatureStore::Inline(vec![]),
-            grids: vec![],
-            hashes: vec![],
-            offsets: vec![],
-            mrope: vec![],
-            mrope_delta: 0,
-        },
+        crate::multi_modality::result_store::MmEncodedEntry::Qwen(
+            crate::multi_modality::result_store::QwenMmEncodedEntry {
+                features: crate::multi_modality::result_store::FeatureStore::Inline(vec![]),
+                grids: vec![],
+                hashes: vec![],
+                offsets: vec![],
+                mrope: vec![],
+                mrope_delta: 0,
+            },
+        ),
     );
     intake.on_abort(AbortSource::Guard("mm-gone".to_string().into()));
     assert_eq!(consumer.drain(16).headers.len(), 1, "only the AbortReq");
diff --git a/rust/sglang-server/src/tokenizer_manager/tokenizer.rs b/rust/sglang-server/src/tokenizer_manager/tokenizer.rs
index 36d0622f2..0cc443fa2 100644
--- a/rust/sglang-server/src/tokenizer_manager/tokenizer.rs
+++ b/rust/sglang-server/src/tokenizer_manager/tokenizer.rs
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ fn strip_auto_specials(mut ids: Vec<i32>, auto_specials: &[i32]) -> Vec<i32> {
 /// The `auto_specials` prefix (probed once at construction, Python's
 /// `encode("")` probe) is stripped from template-rendered prompts —
 /// [`GenerateRequest`]'s `skip_special_tokens` — so chat prompts gain no
-/// extra BOS/EOS while native text keeps the post-processor specials.
+/// extra BOS/EOS while plain text keeps the post-processor specials.
 pub struct TokenizerWorker {
     rx: flume::Receiver<Request>,
     tm: flume::Sender<TmEvent>,
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ mod tests {
             };
             g.input_ids.clone().expect("tokenized")
         };
-        assert_eq!(run(false), vec![0, 2], "native prompts keep specials");
+        assert_eq!(run(false), vec![0, 2], "plain text prompts keep specials");
         assert_eq!(run(true), vec![2], "rendered prompts lose the auto BOS");
     }
 }
diff --git a/rust/sglang-server/src/utils/fsm.rs b/rust/sglang-server/src/utils/fsm.rs
index c28b6de2f..a319f38d2 100644
--- a/rust/sglang-server/src/utils/fsm.rs
+++ b/rust/sglang-server/src/utils/fsm.rs
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ pub enum RequestState {
 /// Outcome of validation.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
 pub enum ValidationOutcome {
-    /// Has multimodal inputs → Encoding, where an MM worker runs the native
+    /// Has multimodal inputs → Encoding, where an MM worker runs the multimodal
     /// pipeline and returns the final expanded `input_ids`.
     HasMultimodal,
     /// Plain text → Tokenizing.
diff --git a/rust/sglang-server/src/utils/runtime.rs b/rust/sglang-server/src/utils/runtime.rs
index 1fc359cb6..5067b8778 100644
--- a/rust/sglang-server/src/utils/runtime.rs
+++ b/rust/sglang-server/src/utils/runtime.rs
@@ -76,6 +76,24 @@ impl Runtime {
             self.mm_wiring.tokenizer.clone(),
             self.mm_results.clone(),
         )?);
+        self.spawn_mm_pool(workers, ctx);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    pub fn start_mm_workers_with_processor(
+        &self,
+        processor: Arc<dyn crate::multi_modality::worker::MmProcessor>,
+        workers: usize,
+    ) {
+        let ctx = Arc::new(crate::multi_modality::worker::MmContext::with_processor(
+            processor,
+            self.mm_wiring.tokenizer.clone(),
+            self.mm_results.clone(),
+        ));
+        self.spawn_mm_pool(workers, ctx);
+    }
+
+    fn spawn_mm_pool(&self, workers: usize, ctx: Arc<crate::multi_modality::worker::MmContext>) {
         let mut threads = self.threads.lock().unwrap();
         spawn_pool("mm-worker", None, workers.max(1), &mut threads, |_| {
             crate::multi_modality::worker::MmWorker::new(
@@ -84,7 +102,6 @@ impl Runtime {
                 ctx.clone(),
             )
         });
-        Ok(())
     }
 
     /// Stop the runtime and join every worker thread (with a bounded wait).
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/multimodal/rust/shared/test_rust_server_extension.py b/test/registered/unit/multimodal/rust/shared/test_rust_server_extension.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..96ad091f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/registered/unit/multimodal/rust/shared/test_rust_server_extension.py
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+"""Model packages use one extension for server arguments and worker startup."""
+
+import unittest
+from types import ModuleType, SimpleNamespace
+from unittest.mock import Mock, patch, sentinel
+
+from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cpu_ci
+from sglang.test.test_utils import CustomTestCase, maybe_stub_sgl_kernel
+
+maybe_stub_sgl_kernel()
+
+from sglang.srt.rust_server import server as server_module  # noqa: E402
+from sglang.srt.rust_server.server import RustServer  # noqa: E402
+
+register_cpu_ci(est_time=1, suite="base-a-test-cpu")
+
+
+class TestRustServerExtension(CustomTestCase):
+    def test_launch_uses_the_model_extension_and_instance_worker_state(self):
+        extension = ModuleType("model_server")
+        extension.Server = Mock()
+
+        class ModelServer(RustServer):
+            @classmethod
+            def _load_extension(cls):
+                return extension
+
+            def _start_multimodal(self, scheduler):
+                self.server.start_mm_workers(sentinel.spec, 8)
+
+        scheduler = SimpleNamespace(
+            ps=SimpleNamespace(
+                dp_size=2,
+                attn_dp_rank=1,
+                tp_size=2,
+                tp_rank=1,
+                pp_size=1,
+                attn_tp_size=1,
+                attn_cp_size=1,
+            ),
+            model_config=SimpleNamespace(is_multimodal=True),
+        )
+        with (
+            patch.object(
+                server_module,
+                "get_exec",
+                return_value=SimpleNamespace(
+                    moe=SimpleNamespace(is_ep_scale_joiner=False)
+                ),
+            ),
+            patch.object(
+                server_module, "get_parallel", return_value=SimpleNamespace(nnodes=1)
+            ),
+            patch.object(ModelServer, "_partition_cores", return_value=(None, None)),
+            patch.object(
+                server_module,
+                "get_mm",
+                return_value=SimpleNamespace(mm_processor_worker_num=8),
+            ),
+            patch.object(
+                server_module,
+                "get_serving",
+                return_value=SimpleNamespace(host="::", port=30000),
+            ),
+            patch.object(
+                server_module, "_build_server_args", return_value=sentinel.args
+            ) as build_args,
+        ):
+            instance = ModelServer.launch(scheduler)
+
+        build_args.assert_called_once_with(scheduler, extension=extension)
+        extension.Server.assert_called_once_with(
+            sentinel.args, cores=None, port_offset=1
+        )
+        instance.server.start_mm_workers.assert_called_once_with(sentinel.spec, 8)
+        self.assertIsInstance(instance, ModelServer)
+        self.assertEqual(instance.http_port, 30001)
+        self.assertTrue(instance._multimodal_enabled)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()