diff --git a/tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/test_kv_connector_lifecyle.py b/tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/test_kv_connector_lifecyle.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fe6296cf12ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/v1/kv_connector/unit/test_kv_connector_lifecyle.py
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+
+from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_connector.v1.shared_storage_connector import (  # noqa: E501
+    SharedStorageConnectorMetadata)
+from vllm.distributed.kv_transfer.kv_transfer_state import (
+    ensure_kv_transfer_initialized, get_kv_transfer_group)
+from vllm.v1.core.sched.output import CachedRequestData, SchedulerOutput
+from vllm.v1.worker.kv_connector_model_runner_mixin import (
+    KVConnectorModelRunnerMixin)
+
+# Importing utils registers TestSharedStorageConnector with the factory
+from .utils import create_vllm_config
+
+
+def _make_empty_scheduler_output():
+    return SchedulerOutput(
+        scheduled_new_reqs=[],
+        scheduled_cached_reqs=CachedRequestData.make_empty(),
+        num_scheduled_tokens={},
+        total_num_scheduled_tokens=0,
+        scheduled_spec_decode_tokens={},
+        scheduled_encoder_inputs={},
+        num_common_prefix_blocks=[],
+        finished_req_ids=set(),
+        free_encoder_mm_hashes=[],
+        structured_output_request_ids={},
+        grammar_bitmask=None,
+        kv_connector_metadata=SharedStorageConnectorMetadata(),
+    )
+
+
+def test_kv_connector_mixin_clears_metadata():
+    vllm_config = create_vllm_config()
+    vllm_config.kv_transfer_config.kv_connector = "TestSharedStorageConnector"
+    vllm_config.kv_transfer_config.kv_role = "kv_both"
+    vllm_config.kv_transfer_config.kv_connector_extra_config["name"] = ("unit")
+
+    # Initialize the global connector instance
+    ensure_kv_transfer_initialized(vllm_config)
+
+    try:
+        # Minimal scheduler output with empty metadata; mixin should still
+        # bind/clear metadata even if no loads happen
+        scheduler_output = _make_empty_scheduler_output()
+
+        # Invoke the no-forward path which uses the mixin context manager
+        KVConnectorModelRunnerMixin.kv_connector_no_forward(
+            scheduler_output, vllm_config)
+
+        # Verify clear_connector_metadata was called on the connector
+        connector = get_kv_transfer_group()
+        assert connector._connector_metadata is None
+        # Test connector wrapper records method calls
+        assert connector.call_record.get("bind_connector_metadata", 0) == 1
+        assert connector.call_record.get("clear_connector_metadata", 0) == 1
+    finally:
+        # Ensure we clean up the global connector between tests
+        KVConnectorModelRunnerMixin.ensure_kv_transfer_shutdown()
diff --git a/vllm/v1/worker/kv_connector_model_runner_mixin.py b/vllm/v1/worker/kv_connector_model_runner_mixin.py
index 016a90c196ba..7eaff924ecc1 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/worker/kv_connector_model_runner_mixin.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/worker/kv_connector_model_runner_mixin.py
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ class KVConnectorModelRunnerMixin:
 
             output.kv_connector_stats = KVConnectorModelRunnerMixin.\
             get_kv_connector_stats()
+            kv_connector.clear_connector_metadata()
 
     @staticmethod
     def get_kv_connector_stats() -> Optional[KVConnectorStats]: