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Fixes the Expo E2E flake reported twice on the Version packages PR (Slack 1, Slack 2): a launch that signs in with a ticket sometimes ends on No session was found with id sess_.... It affects every spec that launches signed in, on both platforms. This supersedes the closed #10397 and #10399, which were written without a device run and targeted a different cause.

Cause

Completing a sign-in rotates the client token. Frontend API treats a request that still carries the old token as a request from an unknown client and mints a new, empty client for it. I confirmed both against a development instance with curl: the old token gets a new client ID and a new token, and touching the new session with that token returns resource_not_found.

The JS and native SDKs share one device token with compare-and-set. While the ticket sign-in is in flight, either SDK can send another request with the pre-sign-in token, such as native's refresh after JS stored its token, or a JS GET /v1/client pull. When that request reaches the server after the rotation and its response is handled first, its compare-and-set (old token → new empty client) succeeds. The sign-in response's compare-and-set (old token → rotated token) then fails. finalize() touches the new session with the empty client's token and gets a 404.

The app logs of a run with request logging (an uncommitted patch) show both orders: native replacing the token in one launch, and a JS pull doing it in another.

Fix

The client token is a JWT whose payload names its client. When saveClientToken's compare-and-set fails, the JS SDK now checks whether:

  • its response token is a rotation (same client as the request's token), and
  • the shared token now belongs to a different client.

Only a request that used the rotated-away token can produce that state, so the SDK swaps its rotated token back in, still with compare-and-set against the current value. Native then resets to the signed-in client the same way it does for any device token change.

It leaves the native token in place when the late response is the one that minted a new client, when native holds a newer token for the same client, and when a token isn't a client JWT. A native sign-out deletes the token and mints its client from no token, so it never matches the rule.

Device runs

All runs used the verify-clerk-expo remote devices, the four ticket specs (native-js-sync/sign-out-from-native, token-cache-persistence/relaunch, user-button-and-profile/embedded-profile, user-button-and-profile/profile), and --retries 0.

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main (63847a9) with request logging 4 of 7 passed. 3 failed with No session was found —
This branch with request logging 6 of 6 passed. The reclaim fired once, and that launch passed —
This branch (39b8465), no local changes 30 of 30 passed in 5 runs 18 of 18 passed in 3 runs

The before run is not attached: attach refuses runs with uncommitted changes, and the logging patch made the failing run one. A before run on a clean main needs a separate before branch.

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  • pnpm test runs as expected.
  • pnpm build runs as expected.
  • (If applicable) JSDoc comments have been added or updated for any package exports
  • (If applicable) Documentation has been updated

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  • 🐛 Bug fix
  • 🌟 New feature
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Verified on an iOS simulator, as reported by the session that mikepitre started. Run r20261023-220621-e195 on iPhone 17 Pro on blacksmith-6vcpu-macos-26 at 39b8465d8ef6, 6 of 6 passed.

before-sign-out restored-home-after-relaunch
before-sign-out restored-home-after-relaunch

Verified on an Android emulator, as reported by the session that mikepitre started. Run r20261023-215516-412c on Clerk_Verify_Pixel on blacksmith-8vcpu-ubuntu-2204 at 39b8465d8ef6, 6 of 6 passed.

before-sign-out restored-home-after-relaunch
before-sign-out restored-home-after-relaunch

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Completing a sign-in rotates the client token. A request still carrying the old token gets a new, empty client from Frontend API, and if its response won the compare-and-set on the shared device token, the session the sign-in created was no longer reachable. When the JS SDK's rotated token loses the compare-and-set to a token for a different client, it now takes the shared token back.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YRFX1vXXjueFzAj84qMXJg
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Native token synchronization now extracts client IDs from JWT payloads. If an expected-token update fails, it can replace the current native token when the request and new tokens have the same client ID and the current token has a different client ID. Tests cover token rotation races and non-client-JWT tokens. A patch changeset records the release note.

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  • clerk/javascript#10397: Addresses the same Expo launch-ticket session error by delaying sign-in until the native auth view loads.

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A late response can replace a newer native client state and potentially switch the active session; this should be resolved before merging.

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Title check Passed The title "fix(expo): keep the signed-in client when a stale token mints another one" describes the main change. The changeset retains the signed-in client when a stale pre-sign-in token mints a new c…
Description check Passed The description matches the changeset. It explains the Expo E2E flake ("No session was found with id sess_..."), the root cause (a stale client token rotated during sign-in), and the fix (swapping the…
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Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes stay within the stated objective. nativeClientSync.ts detects a rotated client token and reclaims it with compare-and-set. nativeClientSync.test.ts covers the token-race cases and pres…
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The title "fix(expo): keep the signed-in client when a stale token mints another one" describes the main change. The changeset retains the signed-in client when a stale pre-sign-in token mints a new client, which is the core of the fix in nativeClientSync.ts. The title is specific and uses the conventional commit format. It does not name the compare-and-set recovery step, but that detail is not required.

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The description matches the changeset. It explains the Expo E2E flake ("No session was found with id sess_..."), the root cause (a stale client token rotated during sign-in), and the fix (swapping the rotated token back in using compare-and-set when the shared token now belongs to a different client). It also lists device test runs that support the change.

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The changes stay within the stated objective. nativeClientSync.ts detects a rotated client token and reclaims it with compare-and-set. nativeClientSync.test.ts covers the token-race cases and preservation cases. The changeset records the Expo bug fix. No unrelated change is shown.

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Review comments at @packages/expo/src/provider/nativeClientSync.ts:
- Line 211: Update the current-token check in the native client sync flow to
require a decoded, non-null client ID before comparing identities or replacing
the token. Keep tokens with unknown client identity unchanged, and preserve the
existing behavior for known, differing client IDs.
- Line 211: Tighten the reclaim condition around clientIdOf and setDeviceToken
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