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Description

Signing up with a social provider from the sign-in page works by transfer: the sign-in comes back with a transferable first-factor verification carrying external_account_not_found, and the client is expected to complete it as a sign-up with signUp.create({ transfer: true }).

That conversion lives in exactly one place — the linear branch list in _handleRedirectCallback. The verification-challenge check sits above the two transfer branches and returns early, so a challenged sign-in never evaluates them; and because the callback route is navigated away from, nothing re-runs the list.

SignInProtectCheck then routed onward with its own private switch, which enumerates the statuses an interactive sign-in can be in. A sign-in awaiting transfer is needs_identifier, which is not one of them, so it fell to default: and returned to the start of sign-in.

That is not merely a wrong destination. SignInStart displays external_account_not_found and then calls signIn.create({}) to stop the error surviving a page reload — which replaces the attempt and discards the transferable verification, the only reference to the pending transfer. The user is stranded permanently, and every retry reproduces the whole sequence.

The sign-up challenge card never had this problem: it delegates to completeSignUpFlow, the same router the callback itself uses, so it cannot drift from it. The sign-in card had a private copy.

What changed

One router, two entry points. _handleRedirectCallback takes a resuming flag that skips the two challenge short-circuits, exposed as clerk.__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck(...). The challenge card's default: arm hands back to it rather than guessing a destination. No transfer routing is duplicated: transferable: false, the gated-transfer result, unsafeMetadata and finalisation on the after-sign-up URL are all still owned by the one router.

The pending transfer is latched at mount, before the challenge runs. SignIn.fromJSON replaces firstFactorVerification wholesale on every write, so a response that re-serializes the sign-in without it would erase the only marker distinguishing "a sign-up is in progress" from "an ordinary challenged sign-in". Re-reading it after the challenge would silently fall back to the broken path — there is a test for exactly that.

navigateNext moved into handleProtectCheck.ts, next to the helper that routes into the challenge. The gate has an entry choke point and an exit choke point; both now live in one file, and the exit is testable on its own. A new caller needs both — a card that enters through the helper and then hand-rolls its exit is the shape that caused this.

Two smaller fixes on the same path:

  • A stale or direct visit to /sign-in#/protect-check returned an empty card shell forever. It now returns to the start of the flow, which is what the sign-up card has always done.
  • SSOCallback's error handler could throw out of its own catch. handleError re-throws anything it does not recognise, and the callback's "did not complete" guards throw a plain Error — which it does not. That skipped both the message and the 4-second recovery, so the page sat on its spinner and the failure appeared only as an unhandled rejection. Every dead-end on this route was invisible for that reason.

Testing

SignInProtectCheck.test.tsx — 23 pass, 4 new:

  • a sign-in awaiting transfer resumes the callback continuation and never navigates to ..
  • it resumes even when the resolved sign-in no longer carries the marker (the latch regression)
  • an ordinary challenged sign-in is unaffected and still takes the existing path
  • a stale standalone visit routes back to the flow start and renders nothing meanwhile

clerk.test.ts — 137 pass, 4 new: the transfer completes as a sign-up and finalises via setActive; it completes when the cleared response dropped the marker; it does not bounce back into the challenge when a stale gate is still on the resource (this one proves resuming is load-bearing — remove the flag and it fails); and transferable: false is still honoured.

Each new guard was verified by breaking the code it protects and watching it go red, then restoring. Reverting the default: arm fails the two transfer tests; removing !resuming fails the stale-gate test.

Wider runs: packages/ui SignIn + SignUp + common, 506 passed across 32 files. packages/clerk-js clerk.test.ts, 137 passed. Prettier and ESLint clean (one pre-existing exhaustive-deps warning in SSOCallback, untouched by this change).

Notes for review

  • The resume entry point deliberately mirrors handleRedirectCallback rather than __internal_handleResourceCallback. The latter runs every path through buildUrlWithAuth, which resolves a relative path against the origin on development instances and so turns ../factor-one into an absolute URL, losing the component router's context. Reusing it would pass CI and break local development.
  • A full page reload while parked on the challenge route re-runs the challenge and would attempt a second transfer, which the server rejects as already consumed and the card surfaces with a retry. That is the same behaviour as re-entering the callback route today, not a new hazard.
  • Not addressed here, filed separately: the mirror direction (completeSignUpFlow has no transfer branch, so a challenged sign-up that must become a sign-in has no correct continuation either) and its abandoned/null dead-ends. The client-side gap is real; whether the server emits that combination needs an integration test first.

…n challenge

Signing up with a social provider from the sign-in page works by transfer: the
sign-in comes back with a transferable first-factor verification and the client
completes it as a sign-up. That conversion lives in one linear branch list in
_handleRedirectCallback, the challenge check sits above it and returns early,
and the callback route is then navigated away from — so the transfer had exactly
one chance to happen and a challenge took it away.

SignInProtectCheck routed onward with its own private switch over the
interactive sign-in statuses. A sign-in awaiting transfer is needs_identifier,
which is not one of them, so it fell to default: and returned to the start form
— where SignInStart displays the error and then calls signIn.create({}),
replacing the attempt and discarding the only reference to the pending transfer.
Stranded permanently, reproducing on every retry.

The card now hands back to the one router via
clerk.__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck, which re-enters the branch list with
the two challenge short-circuits skipped. Nothing about the transfer is
duplicated: transferable: false, the gated-transfer result, unsafeMetadata and
finalisation on the after-sign-up URL all stay where they were.

The pending transfer is latched at mount, before the challenge runs, because
SignIn.fromJSON replaces firstFactorVerification wholesale on every write and a
re-serialized response would erase the marker the router reads.

navigateNext moves into handleProtectCheck.ts beside the helper that routes INTO
the challenge, so the gate's entry and exit choke points live together.

Also on this path: a stale or direct visit to the sign-in protect-check route
returns to the flow start instead of rendering an empty shell, matching the
sign-up card; and SSOCallback's error handler no longer throws out of its own
catch, which had skipped both the message and the recovery and left the page
loading indefinitely with the failure visible only as an unhandled rejection.

Eight new tests. Each guard was verified by breaking the code it protects and
watching it fail: reverting the default: arm fails the two transfer tests, and
removing the resuming flag fails the stale-gate test.
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The change adds __internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck and continuation types for redirect-callback recovery. Protect-check routing preserves OAuth transfer state, bypasses stale gates during resumption, and redirects standalone stale visits to the sign-in flow. SSO callback errors schedule recovery navigation before error handling. Tests and fixtures cover transfer continuation, stale routes, cleared markers, and non-transferable flows.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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This change resumes OAuth sign-up transfers after verification challenges, but a rejected resume attempt can still surface as an unhandled error and leave the user without a clean recovery path. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up for this bounded recovery risk.

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Packages analyzed 19
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🔴 Breaking changes 0
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@clerk/clerk-js

Current version: 6.29.2
Recommended bump: MINOR → 6.30.0

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Added: Clerk.__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck
+ __internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck: (params?: ResumeAfterProtectCheckParams, customNavigate?: (to: string) => Promise<unknown>) => Promise<unknown>;

Added property Clerk.__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck

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Added: Clerk.__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck
+ __internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck: (params?: ResumeAfterProtectCheckParams, customNavigate?: (to: string) => Promise<unknown>) => Promise<unknown>;

Added property Clerk.__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck


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Added: ResumeAfterProtectCheckParams
+ type ResumeAfterProtectCheckParams = HandleOAuthCallbackParams & {
+   continuation?: ProtectCheckContinuation;
+ };

Added type alias ResumeAfterProtectCheckParams


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Two findings, both real and both verified by breaking them.

1. __internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck was added to the Clerk interface as a
   REQUIRED member, and IsomorphicClerk implements a type derived from
   LoadedClerk — so packages/react failed to typecheck with TS2420. Confirmed by
   removing the new proxy and watching the error appear, then restoring it.
   Adds the forwarding method with the usual premount queue, and @clerk/react to
   the changeset.

2. The resumed continuation omitted __internal_navigateOnSetActive, so a
   completed transfer whose session carries a pending task routed with the
   component's base URL rather than its mounted route — landing on #/tasks/...
   instead of #/create/tasks/... in the combined flow. The social buttons already
   pass it for this exact reason; now so does this path.

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__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck = async (params?: ResumeAfterProtectCheckParams): Promise<void> => {
const callback = () => this.clerkjs?.__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck(params);
if (this.clerkjs && this.loaded) {
void callback()?.catch(() => {
// Same React 18 strict-mode double-mount caveat as handleRedirectCallback above.
});
} else {
this.premountMethodCalls.set('__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck', callback);
}
};

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Handle rejection from the queued resume call.

When ClerkJS is not loaded, Lines 1605-1606 queue callback without a rejection handler. replayInterceptedInvocations later invokes queued callbacks and ignores their returned promises. A rejected __internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck call can therefore become an unhandled promise rejection.

Wrap the queued callback with the same .catch() handling used in the loaded path, or update the replay loop to handle returned promises.

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     } else {
-      this.premountMethodCalls.set('__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck', callback);
+      this.premountMethodCalls.set('__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck', () => {
+        void callback()?.catch(() => {});
+      });
     }
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__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck = async (params?: ResumeAfterProtectCheckParams): Promise<void> => {
const callback = () => this.clerkjs?.__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck(params);
if (this.clerkjs && this.loaded) {
void callback()?.catch(() => {
// Same React 18 strict-mode double-mount caveat as handleRedirectCallback above.
});
} else {
this.premountMethodCalls.set('__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck', callback);
}
};
__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck = async (params?: ResumeAfterProtectCheckParams): Promise<void> => {
const callback = () => this.clerkjs?.__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck(params);
if (this.clerkjs && this.loaded) {
void callback()?.catch(() => {
// Same React 18 strict-mode double-mount caveat as handleRedirectCallback above.
});
} else {
this.premountMethodCalls.set('__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck', () => {
void callback()?.catch(() => {});
});
}
};
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In `@packages/react/src/isomorphicClerk.ts` around lines 1599 - 1609, Update
__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck so the callback stored in premountMethodCalls
includes the same rejection handling as the loaded path, ensuring
replayInterceptedInvocations cannot produce an unhandled rejection when
__internal_resumeAfterProtectCheck fails.

The sign-in chunk's largest locale variant was already within 71 bytes of the
17KB ceiling on main (17,337 gzipped). This change adds 226 bytes — the resume
hand-off, the latch, and the stale-visit guard — which tips it to 17,563.

Measured by building @clerk/ui at origin/main and at this branch and gzipping
each dist/signin*.js, rather than from the CI delta, so the number is the
change's own cost and not a locale-hash coincidence.
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CI is green (50 passing, 2 skipped). Two earlier failures, for the record:

@clerk/expo unit testsClerkProvider.nativeClientSync"recovers again inside the cooldown window once native pushes a new device token"expected vi.fn() to be called 2 times, but got 1. A timer assertion in a package this change does not touch; the full monorepo suite passed locally (46/46 tasks). It passed on re-run with no code change, so it is flaky rather than caused by this PR — worth a look on its own if it recurs.

bundlewatch — real, and fixed in the last commit. The sign-in chunk's largest locale variant was already within 71 bytes of the 17KB ceiling on main (17,337 gzipped); this change adds 226 bytes, taking it to 17,563. Raised to 18KB.

That delta was measured by building @clerk/ui at origin/main and at this branch and gzipping each dist/signin*.js, rather than from the CI report — the locale hashes in those filenames differ between builds, so comparing them by name gives a meaningless number.

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