diff --git a/tests/models/kimi_k3/test_dspark_kv_group.py b/tests/models/kimi_k3/test_dspark_kv_group.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bd0299d47b80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/models/kimi_k3/test_dspark_kv_group.py
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+"""The K3 DSpark draft must not merge into the target's MLA KV cache group."""
+
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+
+import pytest
+
+from vllm.models.kimi_k3.nvidia.mla import MultiHeadLatentAttention
+from vllm.v1.kv_cache_interface import MLAAttentionSpec
+
+
+def _get_spec(non_causal_multi_token_decode: bool) -> MLAAttentionSpec:
+    mla = MultiHeadLatentAttention.__new__(MultiHeadLatentAttention)
+    mla.kv_cache_dtype = "auto"
+    mla.head_size = 576
+    mla.non_causal_multi_token_decode = non_causal_multi_token_decode
+    vllm_config = SimpleNamespace(
+        cache_config=SimpleNamespace(block_size=64),
+        model_config=None,
+    )
+    return mla.get_kv_cache_spec(vllm_config)  # type: ignore[arg-type]
+
+
+def test_dspark_draft_spec_carries_model_version():
+    spec = _get_spec(non_causal_multi_token_decode=True)
+    assert spec.model_version == "kimi_k3_dspark"
+
+
+def test_target_spec_has_no_model_version():
+    spec = _get_spec(non_causal_multi_token_decode=False)
+    assert spec.model_version is None
+
+
+def test_dspark_draft_spec_cannot_merge_into_target_group():
+    # The split matters because MLAAttentionSpec.merge ORs
+    # non_causal_multi_token_decode, which would flag the causal target.
+    with pytest.raises(AssertionError, match="model version"):
+        MLAAttentionSpec.merge(
+            [
+                _get_spec(non_causal_multi_token_decode=False),
+                _get_spec(non_causal_multi_token_decode=True),
+            ]
+        )
diff --git a/vllm/models/kimi_k3/nvidia/mla.py b/vllm/models/kimi_k3/nvidia/mla.py
index 87bf59749c1d..4201d890354f 100644
--- a/vllm/models/kimi_k3/nvidia/mla.py
+++ b/vllm/models/kimi_k3/nvidia/mla.py
@@ -430,6 +430,15 @@ def get_kv_cache_spec(self, vllm_config: VllmConfig) -> KVCacheSpec:
             kv_quant_mode=get_kv_quant_mode(self.kv_cache_dtype),
             # fp8_ds_mla: 656-byte custom layout; see flashmla_sparse.py.
             state_content_bytes=656 if self.kv_cache_dtype == "fp8_ds_mla" else None,
+            # Keep the non-causal DSpark draft out of the target's KV cache
+            # group: MLAAttentionSpec.merge ORs non_causal_multi_token_decode,
+            # so a merged group would flag the causal target too, raising its
+            # TritonMLA reorder threshold and misrouting its short prefills and
+            # causal verification blocks into a decode path that expects one
+            # query row per request.
+            model_version="kimi_k3_dspark"
+            if self.non_causal_multi_token_decode
+            else None,
             non_causal_multi_token_decode=self.non_causal_multi_token_decode,
         )