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Offline startup can make Clerk look signed out and delete saved T3 Connect environments. Preserve those routes while Clerk has only an empty or cookie-fallback client; remove them after a real client confirms no session, explicit sign-out, or account switching.

Original description by @otavio

Problem

Launching the desktop app while offline deletes saved T3 Connect environments (https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/17917). Clerk finishes loading signed out when the network is down. ManagedRelayAuthProvider (apps/web/src/cloud/managedAuth.tsx) treated that first observation as a sign-out, because observedAccountRef starts as undefined and the check was previousAccount !== null. It then ran removeRelayEnvironments, which deletes every environment whose only route is T3 Connect. They do not come back when the network returns.

Expected: being offline at launch leaves saved environments alone; the relay session just stays inactive.

Change

Account cleanup now runs only after this session has observed a signed-in account (previousAccount !== undefined && previousAccount !== null). A first signed-out observation only deactivates the relay session, which it already did. A real sign-out (signed in, then signed out) and an account switch (A, then B, unchanged branch) still remove relay environments and reset the token cache.

Scope and approval

Fixes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/17917. This is a very small, focused fix for an obvious data-loss bug: one condition in one file plus a regression test. It follows the fix suggested in the issue and does not change how sign-out or account switching behave.

Verification

  • Added three cases to apps/web/src/cloud/managedAuth.test.ts that render ManagedRelayAuthProvider with useAuth and useAtomCommand mocked:
    • Clerk loading, then loaded signed out (the offline launch state from the issue): removeRelayEnvironments is not called. On main this case fails (expected "vi.fn()" to not be called at all, but actually been called 1 times); with the fix it passes.
    • Signed in as account-1, then signed out: cleanup runs once.
    • account-1, then account-2: cleanup runs once and the relay session moves to account-2.
  • vp test run src/cloud/managedAuth.test.ts: 5/5 pass. vp lint and vp fmt --check on the touched files, plus tsc-rs --noEmit for apps/web: clean.
  • A separate Codex review (gpt-6.1-sol, high effort) found no correctness issues. It also checked StrictMode effect replay and isLoaded going back to false.

Not checked: I did not run an end-to-end offline launch. That needs a real Clerk key, a T3 Connect account with a saved relay environment, and network toggling, which would also mean using real credentials in evidence. I also did not verify Clerk's offline behavior myself; I relied on the issue's diagnosis of @clerk/clerk-js. The test reproduces the auth state the issue describes (loaded, signed out, no prior account), so there are no screenshots. One remaining edge: if a user's Clerk session ends while the app is closed, saved relay environments now stay until they sign in again or remove them, instead of being deleted at launch.

Done by Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5) in Claude Code, running inside T3 Code.

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Rebuilt from #18465 by @otavio / @OSSystems, preserving its intent and credit.
The original guard also retained definitive signed-out launches. The replacement distinguishes Clerk's fallback client from a hydrated client and listens for later resource updates. Cleanup now uses the same atom registry as the rendered client, so confirmed cleanup updates the list immediately.
Rendered tests now use the repository's Chromium test runner; account-switch coverage verifies cleanup completes before activation.

Evidence

Fixture matrix

Chromium 148.0.7778.96 on Xvfb; no device emulation, DPR 1, normal font scale; 1440×1000 and 390×844, light/dark. Actual SDK lanes intercept installed Clerk 6.40.0; deterministic transition lanes are labeled HARNESS AUTH STATE. Synthetic IndexedDB data only.

Fixture Before After Proof scope
A1: unresolved, no client ID Saved relay routes deleted Kept across reload Actual SDK + labeled harness
A2: degraded placeholder client Saved relay routes deleted Kept across reload Actual SDK + labeled harness
A3: real no-session client arrives Persisted deletion; stale visible rows Live and persisted removal Labeled provider transitions
A4: unresolved → signed in Saved routes already lost Saved routes retained Labeled provider transitions
A5: observed sign-out Persisted removal Live and persisted removal Labeled provider transitions
A6: account A → B Cleanup before activation; stale rows Live cleanup before activation Labeled provider transitions
A7: unloaded/repeated/same-account controls Existing behavior Existing behavior Labeled provider transitions
A8: bootstrap 401 / successful no-session response Unloaded preserves / resolved removes Same protocol distinction Intercepted actual SDK
V1: mixed/direct/disabled route controls Direct routes survive deletion Direct routes survive; unresolved relay routes retained Same recorded Connections view

Unchanged signed-in-placeholder and rapid-cancellation controls run in three baseline cells and all four after cells; the duplicate baseline 390-dark supplement is not claimed. These nonvisual controls do not need separate width/theme tours. Affected cleanup and preservation paths cover all eight cells.

Complete recordings, chapter steps and public replay trace · Verified replay bundle · Proof audit: SUFFICIENT

Final-merge visual addendum · Final-merge audit: SUFFICIENT
The addendum compares current main with the final head, including main's new Sign in publishing control. The complete transition matrix below remains pinned to its earlier captured SHA.

Final visuals Before: eabcfa2fea After: 44b82a0d96 Diff0 Diff16
1440x1000-light Before After Diff0 Diff16
1440x1000-dark Before After Diff0 Diff16
390x844-light Before After Diff0 Diff16
390x844-dark Before After Diff0 Diff16

Before current main, after final merge, and amplified differences

Matched unresolved-launch stills after reload; differences amplified ×4, thresholds 0 and 16/255. Each column identifies its source SHA.

Viewport / theme Before After Diff0 Diff16
1440x1000-light Before
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After
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Diff0 Diff16
1440x1000-dark Before
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Diff0 Diff16
390x844-light Before
76da264a0c
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Diff0 Diff16
390x844-dark Before
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Diff0 Diff16
Recordings Before: 76da264a0c After: 65637ec020
1440x1000-light Before After
1440x1000-dark Before After
390x844-light Before After
390x844-dark Before After

Before left; after right; zero-threshold and 16/255 differences below

What else changed: retained relay rows include their disconnected error details; mixed-route subtitles and route counts differ; card heights, lower control positions and scroll extent follow the retained rows. Confirmed cleanup now updates the visible list immediately because it uses the rendered app's atom registry. No new UI styling or layout rules. The final-merge addendum also records main's publishing control update; this upstream change is common to both final comparison revisions. A preexisting Authorized clients label/action overlap at 390 px is visible on both revisions; environment-list companions remain readable.

Verification log
  • Main at 76da264a0c retained the faulty initial cleanup; the regression fails there.
  • Five independent Codex/Claude review rounds: fixed definitive cold rejection, offline empty-resource success, and degraded recovery; both round-five reviewers returned MERGE at 65637ec020.
  • Six focused Chromium auth-transition tests (including the correct-registry regression) and one existing unit test pass; targeted lint, formatting and web typecheck pass.
  • No token storage/sending, sign-in or access-validity rules changed. This is local saved-route cleanup around unresolved auth state.
  • Bootstrap HTTP401 leaves Clerk unloaded and preserves routes on both revisions. Refresh401 after an observed account and a successful no-session client response are separate verification cases.
  • CI: pending on final merge head 44b82a0d96. Main merged without rebasing; seven scoped tests and targeted lint pass after the merge.
  • Unverified: live T3 Connect service, real OAuth/account switching, signed-in SDK refresh401 → sign-out, executed JWT fallback, and hosted deployment. Web is the sole changed client surface; no native surface changes.
  • Independent replay: live-cleanup endpoint matches at zero pixels; unresolved retry countdown differs by 89 pixels (64 above 16/255), disclosed as dynamic text rather than antialiasing.
  • Clerk's internal fallback ID is version-sensitive; browser runtime can track CDN major 6 separately from Electron's installed SDK.
  • Friction and exclusions: see the linked audits and replay indexes for SDK fallback assumptions, browser-test conventions, registry mismatch, capture overload/onboarding, timestamp normalization, stale-manifest repair, and main drift.
  • Models/harness: Claude Opus 5.5 via Claude Agent for tests/implementation; GPT-6.1 Sol via Codex and Claude Opus 5.5 for review; GPT-6.1 Sol via Codex for evidence/proof audit, orchestrated in T3 Code.

Fixes #17917

juliusmarminge and others added 6 commits October 24, 2026 23:19
An offline launch where Clerk loads signed out must keep saved T3 Connect
environments, while a real sign-out or account switch still removes them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Clerk can finish loading signed out while the device is offline. The
managed relay provider treated that first observation as a sign-out and
removed every saved relay environment. Only clean up after a signed-in
account was observed in this session.

Co-Authored-By: Otavio Salvador <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
…nnect environments

Offline, Clerk loads "degraded" from local state and often reports signed out,
so cleanup now waits for a "ready" status before treating a cold sign-out as
real, and stays unresolved until then.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
…nvironments

Clerk 6.40 resolves fetches that fail while navigator.onLine is false to null,
so initialization still reports "ready" with an empty client. Only treat a
signed-out "ready" load as Clerk's answer when the client carries the id every
/v1/client response includes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
… Connect environments

Clerk's status cannot prove its API answered. A real /v1/client response can
arrive while the status stays degraded, so recognize it by its client id and
exclude the client_init placeholder Clerk builds from the session cookie.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
…he open app

ManagedRelayAuthProvider mounts above AppAtomRegistryProvider, so its
context-bound cleanup command ran on the default registry. IndexedDB lost the
relay environments while the rendered app kept showing them until reload. Run
the cleanup on appAtomRegistry, like session activation already does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Codex Live turn messages 2 2 0 (0.0%) 8 ✅
Claude Total thread wire 5.0 KiB 5.0 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 6.8 KiB ✅
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Baseline: eabcfa2 · PR result: 44b82a0 · Source CI: success

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10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

  • Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
  • Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Verdict: Approved at dd612ba

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Initial inconclusive Clerk responses now preserve saved Connect environments instead of triggering sign-out cleanup. The guard does not activate credentials, and confirmed sign-outs and later account transitions retain their existing handling.

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The relay cloud-account service now uses Clerk client IDs to distinguish API-confirmed sign-out from an initial unconfirmed signed-out state. It skips cleanup for an initial unconfirmed event; confirmed initial sign-out and later sign-out transitions still trigger cleanup.

Changes: Managed relay auth

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve Clerk client state
packages/client-runtime/src/relay/cloudAccountService.ts
The source exposes an optional Clerk client ID. A helper identifies clients with a truthy ID other than "client_init".
Gate cleanup on account transitions
packages/client-runtime/src/relay/cloudAccountService.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/relay/cloudAccountService.test.ts
attach skips an initial signed-out observation when the client is not API-confirmed. Tests cover empty and placeholder IDs, confirmed initial sign-out, and later sign-out cleanup.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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Launching the app while offline should no longer remove saved Connect environments, and cleanup still runs after a confirmed sign-out or an observed sign-out. End-to-end offline launch with the real Clerk SDK was not verified in this review, but no concrete defect remains.

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The title names the main change: a fix that keeps saved T3 Connect environments when auth is unreachable at launch. It matches the changeset, which skips relay cleanup on the first signed-out observation when Clerk has only an empty or fallback client. The title is specific to the bug and the affected feature, and it follows the conventional commit format.

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Issue #17917 requires that offline launch leave saved T3 Connect environments unchanged. It also requires cleanup to stay for a confirmed sign-out or account change. The head change since the previous review adds a guard in packages/client-runtime/src/relay/cloudAccountService.ts. When the service is Unobserved and Clerk reports no user, the emission is ignored unless isClientFromClerkApi(resources.client) is true. That helper requires a truthy client ID other than "client_init". An id-less client or a client_init placeholder therefore does not start an observed sign-out, so no cleanup runs. A real client with no session still triggers cleanup. Observed sign-out and account switching follow the unchanged observe path with isAccountTransition set. The earlier managedAuth and browser-test evidence still applies to the provider side, and this incremental change reinforces it. Remaining uncertainty: the live offline launch was not run end to end, and the reconnect-after-network-returns behavior is not shown by code evidence alone.

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Main moved Clerk account transitions into the shared cloud account service,
so managedAuth.tsx takes main's version and the fix moves to that service.
Clerk emits a signed-out user when its API is unreachable at launch: an
id-less client while offline, or a "client_init" placeholder built from the
session cookie. The cloud account service treated that first emission as a
confirmed sign-out and removed every saved relay environment. It now stays
unobserved until a real Clerk client arrives, while a sign-out after a
signed-in emission still cleans up immediately.

AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

the fix is written and reviewed, but proving it needs something no worker has:

  • Permanent blocker: T3 Connect access is required to sign in, save a Connect-only remote environment, and reproduce offline relaunch on both commits; it is explicitly unavailable on this VM. Offline preservation, reconnection after connectivity returns, confirmed sign-out cleanup, and account-switch cleanup remain unverified.

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The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

the capture step could not show the problem on the base commit, so there is nothing to prove fixed.

On both commits: finish onboarding without importing history, open Settings, select Sign in to T3 Connect, enter the supplied first test account email, and click Continue. Both stopped at Clerk's error that Origin and Authorization headers cannot both be provided. Separately completed test-stage CLI device login, including password, email verification, and approval, then logged out during cleanup. Could not create the signed-in desktop session or saved Connect-only route required for the offline reproduction.

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Evidence

Sign into Connect, save a Connect-only environment, quit, and relaunch with Clerk API and Connect endpoints unreachable. Restore connectivity and reload. Separately verify explicit sign-out.

Real Linux Electron desktop; isolated state; matching viewport and light theme. Host labels are redacted. Videos are cropped and accelerated 4×.

State Before — 3ea253f80f After — cd376c4e4a
Unreachable auth at launch Before: environment deleted After: Connect route retained
Authentication recovered Before: server is Not added After: retained route reconnects
Explicit sign-out Before: routes cleared After: routes cleared
Recording Before launch and recovery After launch and recovery

Desktop driver · Network fault injection · Reproduction protocol

Direct account switching remains unverified: the test Clerk instance rejected a second active sign-in with “You're already signed in.”

Not shown:

  • Direct account replacement: the test Clerk instance rejected account 2 sign-in while account 1 was active with “You're already signed in.” Explicit sign-out cleanup was verified on both builds.
  • Full operating-system network disconnection was not exercised. The successful comparison blocked Clerk API and Connect traffic at Electron's network boundary while SDK assets remained reachable.
  • Provider-side deletion of one test tunnel could not be confirmed because stage cleanup returned upstream_unavailable. Both test environment records were confirmed absent, local credentials were removed, and all started processes, worktrees, and scratch files were removed.

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[Bug]: Launching offline deletes saved T3 Connect environments because Clerk loads as signed out

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