diff --git a/.github/workflows/uv-lock-checks.yml b/.github/workflows/uv-lock-checks.yml
index d57163165fb..a9ba203fc4e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/uv-lock-checks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/uv-lock-checks.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
-# Check the `uv` lockfile for consistency with `pyproject.toml`.
+# Check the `uv` lockfile and `pins.json` for consistency with `pyproject.toml`.
 #
-# If this check fails, you should run `uv lock` to update the lockfile.
+# If the lockfile check fails, you should run `uv lock` to update the lockfile.
+# If the pins check fails, update the torch index URLs in `pins.json` to match
+# the `[[tool.uv.index]]` entries in `pyproject.toml` (see scripts/check_pins.py).
 
 name: 'uv lock checks'
 
@@ -54,15 +56,24 @@ jobs:
             uvlock-pyprojecttoml:
               - 'pyproject.toml'
               - 'uv.lock'
+              - 'pins.json'
+              - 'scripts/check_pins.py'
 
       - name: setup uv
         if: ${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.uvlock-pyprojecttoml_any_changed == 'true' || inputs.always_run == true }}
         uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v8.1.0
         with:
-          version: '0.6.10'
+          # Keep this at or above the uv version used to generate uv.lock (revision 3 lock
+          # format requires a modern uv; 0.6.x cannot parse it).
+          version: '0.11.28'
           enable-cache: true
 
       - name: check lockfile
         if: ${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.uvlock-pyprojecttoml_any_changed == 'true' || inputs.always_run == true }}
         run: uv lock --locked # this will exit with 1 if the lockfile is not consistent with pyproject.toml
         shell: bash
+
+      - name: check pins.json
+        if: ${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.uvlock-pyprojecttoml_any_changed == 'true' || inputs.always_run == true }}
+        run: python3 scripts/check_pins.py # pins.json is consumed by the launcher; keep its torch index URLs in sync with pyproject.toml
+        shell: bash
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index de665d621e3..ba880d70b93 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ dependencies = [
   # Loosely pinned, will respect requirement of `diffusers[torch]`. Split by platform: linux/win allow
   # >=2.10 so the rocm extra can use torch 2.10.0+rocm7.1, while macOS stays on 2.7.x — newer macOS torch
   # wheels exercise MPS on CI runners (no usable Metal GPU) and fail with MPS OOM.
-  "torch>=2.7.0,<3.0; sys_platform != 'darwin'",
+  # Capped <2.12: torch 2.12.x+rocm7.1 breaks generation (#9328), and legacy (pre-6.14) launcher
+  # installs resolve this range live against the pytorch wheel indexes rather than using uv.lock.
+  "torch>=2.7.0,<2.12; sys_platform != 'darwin'",
   "torch>=2.7.0,<2.8.0; sys_platform == 'darwin'",
   "torchsde",                             # diffusers needs this for SDE solvers, but it is not an explicit dep of diffusers
   "torchvision",
diff --git a/scripts/check_pins.py b/scripts/check_pins.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7a296e3d195
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/check_pins.py
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+"""Check that pins.json is consistent with pyproject.toml.
+
+``pins.json`` is not used anywhere in this repo — it is fetched (at the release
+tag) by the Invoke Launcher (https://github.com/invoke-ai/launcher), which uses
+its ``torchIndexUrl`` entries to pick the torch wheel index for legacy
+(pre-6.14.0) installs. Because nothing in-repo consumes it, it can silently
+drift from the ``[[tool.uv.index]]`` URLs in pyproject.toml — which is exactly
+what happened when ROCm moved from 6.3 to 7.1 (issue #9328).
+
+This script fails if any ``torchIndexUrl`` entry in pins.json differs from the
+URL of the corresponding ``torch-<backend>`` index in pyproject.toml.
+
+Run from anywhere: python scripts/check_pins.py
+"""
+
+import json
+import sys
+import tomllib
+from pathlib import Path
+
+REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    pins = json.loads((REPO_ROOT / "pins.json").read_text())
+    pyproject = tomllib.loads((REPO_ROOT / "pyproject.toml").read_text())
+
+    indexes = {i["name"]: i["url"] for i in pyproject["tool"]["uv"]["index"]}
+
+    errors: list[str] = []
+
+    for platform, backends in pins["torchIndexUrl"].items():
+        for backend, pinned_url in backends.items():
+            index_name = f"torch-{backend}"
+            expected_url = indexes.get(index_name)
+            if expected_url is None:
+                errors.append(
+                    f"pins.json torchIndexUrl.{platform}.{backend}: no [[tool.uv.index]] named '{index_name}' in pyproject.toml"
+                )
+            elif pinned_url != expected_url:
+                errors.append(
+                    f"pins.json torchIndexUrl.{platform}.{backend} is '{pinned_url}' but pyproject.toml index '{index_name}' is '{expected_url}'"
+                )
+
+    if errors:
+        print("pins.json is out of sync with pyproject.toml:", file=sys.stderr)
+        for error in errors:
+            print(f"  - {error}", file=sys.stderr)
+        print(
+            "\nUpdate pins.json to match the [[tool.uv.index]] URLs in pyproject.toml (or vice versa).",
+            file=sys.stderr,
+        )
+        return 1
+
+    print("pins.json is consistent with pyproject.toml")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 6d1b0a462f8..aff88d7d410 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -1176,7 +1176,7 @@ requires-dist = [
     { name = "sentencepiece", specifier = "==0.2.0" },
     { name = "snakeviz", marker = "extra == 'dev'" },
     { name = "spandrel" },
-    { name = "torch", marker = "sys_platform != 'darwin'", specifier = ">=2.7.0,<3.0" },
+    { name = "torch", marker = "sys_platform != 'darwin'", specifier = ">=2.7.0,<2.12" },
     { name = "torch", marker = "sys_platform == 'darwin'", specifier = ">=2.7.0,<2.8.0" },
     { name = "torch", marker = "sys_platform == 'linux' and extra == 'rocm'", specifier = "==2.10.0+rocm7.1", index = "https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm7.1", conflict = { package = "invokeai", extra = "rocm" } },
     { name = "torch", marker = "extra == 'cpu'", specifier = "==2.7.1+cpu", index = "https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu", conflict = { package = "invokeai", extra = "cpu" } },
@@ -3710,10 +3710,10 @@ name = "torch"
 version = "2.7.1"
 source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
 resolution-markers = [
-    "python_full_version >= '3.12' and sys_platform == 'darwin'",
-    "python_full_version < '3.12' and sys_platform == 'darwin'",
     "(python_full_version >= '3.12' and platform_machine == 'x86_64' and sys_platform == 'linux') or (python_full_version >= '3.12' and sys_platform == 'win32')",
     "(python_full_version < '3.12' and platform_machine == 'x86_64' and sys_platform == 'linux') or (python_full_version < '3.12' and sys_platform == 'win32')",
+    "python_full_version >= '3.12' and sys_platform == 'darwin'",
+    "python_full_version < '3.12' and sys_platform == 'darwin'",
 ]
 dependencies = [
     { name = "filelock", marker = "(platform_machine == 'x86_64' and sys_platform == 'linux' and extra != 'extra-8-invokeai-cpu' and extra != 'extra-8-invokeai-cuda' and extra != 'extra-8-invokeai-rocm') or (sys_platform == 'darwin' and extra == 'extra-8-invokeai-rocm') or (sys_platform == 'darwin' and extra != 'extra-8-invokeai-cpu' and extra != 'extra-8-invokeai-cuda') or (sys_platform == 'win32' and extra != 'extra-8-invokeai-cpu' and extra != 'extra-8-invokeai-cuda' and extra != 'extra-8-invokeai-rocm') or (extra == 'extra-8-invokeai-cpu' and extra == 'extra-8-invokeai-cuda') or (extra == 'extra-8-invokeai-cpu' and extra == 'extra-8-invokeai-rocm') or (extra == 'extra-8-invokeai-cuda' and extra == 'extra-8-invokeai-rocm')" },
@@ -3862,10 +3862,10 @@ name = "torchvision"
 version = "0.22.1"
 source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
 resolution-markers = [
-    "python_full_version >= '3.12' and sys_platform == 'darwin'",
-    "python_full_version < '3.12' and sys_platform == 'darwin'",
     "(python_full_version >= '3.12' and platform_machine == 'x86_64' and sys_platform == 'linux') or (python_full_version >= '3.12' and sys_platform == 'win32')",
     "(python_full_version < '3.12' and platform_machine == 'x86_64' and sys_platform == 'linux') or (python_full_version < '3.12' and sys_platform == 'win32')",
+    "python_full_version >= '3.12' and sys_platform == 'darwin'",
+    "python_full_version < '3.12' and sys_platform == 'darwin'",
 ]
 dependencies = [
     { name = "numpy", marker = "(platform_machine == 'x86_64' and sys_platform == 'linux' and extra != 'extra-8-invokeai-cpu' and extra != 'extra-8-invokeai-cuda' and extra != 'extra-8-invokeai-rocm') or (sys_platform == 'darwin' and extra == 'extra-8-invokeai-rocm') or (sys_platform == 'darwin' and extra != 'extra-8-invokeai-cpu' and extra != 'extra-8-invokeai-cuda') or (sys_platform == 'win32' and extra != 'extra-8-invokeai-cpu' and extra != 'extra-8-invokeai-cuda' and extra != 'extra-8-invokeai-rocm') or (extra == 'extra-8-invokeai-cpu' and extra == 'extra-8-invokeai-cuda') or (extra == 'extra-8-invokeai-cpu' and extra == 'extra-8-invokeai-rocm') or (extra == 'extra-8-invokeai-cuda' and extra == 'extra-8-invokeai-rocm')" },