diff --git a/.github/workflows/sanity.yml b/.github/workflows/sanity.yml
index 107e4eb9b6f..0bfcd73aaf0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/sanity.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/sanity.yml
@@ -89,3 +89,7 @@ jobs:
         run: python3 tests/special_sanity/validate_structure.py
       - name: Assert documentation requirement for functions
         run: python3 tests/special_sanity/validate_imported_docs.py
+      - name: Assert device api usage in verl/recipe
+        run: python3 tests/special_sanity/check_device_api_usage.py --directory ./recipe
+      - name: Assert device api usage in verl/verl
+        run: python3 tests/special_sanity/check_device_api_usage.py --directory ./verl
diff --git a/tests/special_sanity/check_device_api_usage.py b/tests/special_sanity/check_device_api_usage.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2ded113e789
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/special_sanity/check_device_api_usage.py
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+# Copyright 2025 Bytedance Ltd. and/or its affiliates
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""
+This CI test is used for checking whether device api usage is irregular, suggest using api in `verl/utils/device.py`.
+Search targets include .py files in verl/recipe and verl/verl.
+Some files that must contain ".cuda", "cuda" or "nccl" keyword is pre-defined in whitelist below.
+"""
+
+import os
+from argparse import ArgumentParser
+from pathlib import Path
+
+# directory or file path must contain keyword ".cuda" or "cuda"
+CUDA_KEYWORD_CHECK_WHITELIST = [
+    "verl/utils/device.py",
+    "verl/third_party/vllm/vllm_v_0_5_4",
+    "verl/third_party/vllm/vllm_v_0_6_3",
+    "recipe/prime/prime_ray_trainer.py",  # appear in default device_name
+    "recipe/spin/spin_trainer.py",  # appear in default device_name
+    "recipe/sppo/sppo_ray_trainer.py",  # appear in default device_name
+    "verl/utils/debug/nvtx_profile.py",  # appear in NsightSystemsProfiler
+    "verl/utils/kernel/linear_cross_entropy.py",  # appear in nvidia nvtx
+    "verl/utils/rendezvous/ray_backend.py",  # appear in cupy importance
+    "verl/single_controller/ray/base.py",  # appear in default device_name
+    "verl/trainer/ppo/ray_trainer.py",  # appear in default device_name
+    "verl/utils/reward_score/sandbox_fusion/utils.py",  # appear in sandbox language type
+    "verl/workers/reward_model/megatron/reward_model.py",  # appear in default device_name
+]
+
+# directory or file path must contain keyword "nccl"
+NCCL_KEYWORD_CHECK_WHITELIST = [
+    "verl/utils/device.py",
+    "verl/third_party/vllm/vllm_v_0_5_4",
+    "verl/third_party/vllm/vllm_v_0_6_3",
+    "verl/third_party/sglang/parallel_state.py",  # appear in default backend
+]
+
+SEARCH_WHITELIST = CUDA_KEYWORD_CHECK_WHITELIST + NCCL_KEYWORD_CHECK_WHITELIST
+
+SEARCH_KEYWORDS = [".cuda", '"cuda"', '"nccl"']
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    parser = ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("--directory", "-d", required=True, type=str)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    directory_in_str = args.directory
+
+    pathlist = Path(directory_in_str).glob("**/*.py")
+    for path in pathlist:
+        path_in_str = str(path.absolute())
+
+        # judge whether current path is in pre-defined search whitelist or not.
+        path_in_whitelist = False
+
+        for sw in SEARCH_WHITELIST:
+            # for easy debugging in non-linux system
+            sw = sw.replace("/", os.sep)
+            if sw in path_in_str:
+                print(f"[SKIP] File {path_in_str} is in device api usage check whitelist, checking is skipped.")
+                path_in_whitelist = True
+                break
+
+        if path_in_whitelist:
+            continue
+
+        with open(path_in_str, encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            file_content = f.read()
+
+            find_invalid_device_management = False
+
+            for sk in SEARCH_KEYWORDS:
+                if sk in file_content:
+                    find_invalid_device_management = True
+                    break
+
+            print(f"[CHECK] File {path_in_str} is detected for device api usage check, check result: {'success' if not find_invalid_device_management else 'failed'}.")
+
+            assert not find_invalid_device_management, f'file {path_in_str} contains .cuda/"cuda"/"nccl" usage, please use api in verl/utils/device.py directly.'
diff --git a/verl/utils/checkpoint/checkpoint_manager.py b/verl/utils/checkpoint/checkpoint_manager.py
index b7a7d97c459..2e45e667596 100644
--- a/verl/utils/checkpoint/checkpoint_manager.py
+++ b/verl/utils/checkpoint/checkpoint_manager.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 from omegaconf import DictConfig
 from transformers import PreTrainedTokenizer, ProcessorMixin
 
-from verl.utils.device import is_cuda_available, is_npu_available
+from verl.utils.device import get_device_name, get_torch_device
 
 
 class BaseCheckpointManager:
@@ -169,10 +169,8 @@ def get_rng_state():
             "random": random.getstate(),
         }
 
-        if is_cuda_available:
-            rng_state["cuda"] = torch.cuda.get_rng_state()
-        elif is_npu_available:
-            rng_state["npu"] = torch.npu.get_rng_state()
+        if get_device_name() != "cpu":
+            rng_state[get_device_name()] = get_torch_device().get_rng_state()
 
         return rng_state
 
@@ -182,10 +180,8 @@ def load_rng_state(rng_state):
         np.random.set_state(rng_state["numpy"])
         random.setstate(rng_state["random"])
 
-        if is_cuda_available:
-            torch.cuda.set_rng_state(rng_state["cuda"])
-        elif is_npu_available:
-            torch.npu.set_rng_state(rng_state["npu"])
+        if get_device_name() != "cpu":
+            get_torch_device().set_rng_state(rng_state[get_device_name()])
 
 
 def find_latest_ckpt_path(path, directory_format="global_step_{}"):
diff --git a/verl/utils/checkpoint/megatron_checkpoint_manager.py b/verl/utils/checkpoint/megatron_checkpoint_manager.py
index 489253374e2..faf563f4cd6 100644
--- a/verl/utils/checkpoint/megatron_checkpoint_manager.py
+++ b/verl/utils/checkpoint/megatron_checkpoint_manager.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 from transformers import GenerationConfig
 
 from verl.models.weight_loader_registry import get_weight_saver
-from verl.utils.device import is_cuda_available, is_npu_available
+from verl.utils.device import get_device_name, get_torch_device
 from verl.utils.fs import is_non_local
 from verl.utils.logger import log_with_rank
 from verl.utils.megatron_utils import (
@@ -111,10 +111,8 @@ def get_rng_state(self, use_dist_ckpt: bool = False, data_parallel_random_init:
             "rng_tracker_states": tensor_parallel.get_cuda_rng_tracker().get_states(),
         }
 
-        if is_cuda_available:
-            rng_state["cuda_rng_state"] = torch.cuda.get_rng_state()
-        elif is_npu_available:
-            rng_state["npu_rng_state"] = torch.npu.get_rng_state()
+        if get_device_name() != "cpu":
+            rng_state[f"{get_device_name()}_rng_state"] = get_torch_device().get_rng_state()
 
         rng_state_list = None
         if torch.distributed.is_initialized() and mpu.get_data_parallel_world_size() > 1 and data_parallel_random_init:
@@ -203,10 +201,8 @@ def load_rng_states(self, ckpt_path, data_parallel_random_init=False, use_dist_c
         np.random.set_state(rng_state["np_rng_state"])
         torch.set_rng_state(rng_state["torch_rng_state"])
 
-        if is_cuda_available:
-            torch.cuda.set_rng_state(rng_state["cuda_rng_state"])
-        elif is_npu_available:
-            torch.npu.set_rng_state(rng_state["npu_rng_state"])
+        if get_device_name() != "cpu":
+            get_torch_device().set_rng_state(rng_state[f"{get_device_name()}_rng_state"])
 
         # Check for empty states array
         if not rng_state["rng_tracker_states"]:
diff --git a/verl/workers/rollout/vllm_rollout/__init__.py b/verl/workers/rollout/vllm_rollout/__init__.py
index 450da77d5b9..1028780cb18 100644
--- a/verl/workers/rollout/vllm_rollout/__init__.py
+++ b/verl/workers/rollout/vllm_rollout/__init__.py
@@ -29,10 +29,6 @@ def get_version(pkg):
 if vllm_package_version is None:
     raise PackageNotFoundError("To use vllm rollout, please ensure the 'vllm' package is properly installed. See https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/start/install.html for more details")
 
-###
-# package_version = get_version(package_name)
-# [SUPPORT AMD:]
-# Do not call any torch.cuda* API here, or ray actor creation import class will fail.
 if "ROCM_PATH" in os.environ:
     import re