fix(clerk-js,shared,ui): bound loading a verification, not running one - #9527
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The SDK raced the whole verification against a fixed 60s wall: loading the module, running it, and the round-trip that follows. That is a duration the SDK is not in a position to judge. Which verification runs is decided by the backend per request, long after the bundle shipped, and what it does varies from waiting on a person to transferring data over an unknown connection, so no single number is right for all of them. When the wall tripped, a verification that was progressing normally was aborted and reported to the user as a timeout, and because retrying restarts the work from the beginning, any connection slow enough to trip it once would trip it again. The bound now covers only loading the module, and stops there: once the module takes control it governs its own duration and the SDK imposes no limit. The default is 60s, deliberately generous, because nothing legitimate waits on this timer — its only job is a connection that is accepted and then never answered, since every other load failure already rejects on its own, a blocking Content-Security-Policy included. challenge_load_timeout_ms overrides that default, on a loader or on the instance, resolved loader first. Per loader because loaders roll out gradually: while a new one ramps two are live for the same instance at once, and the new one may need a different value from the one it replaces. Which loader a browser was assigned is a random draw per page load and cannot be recomputed from the config, so Protect reports what the applied loader asked for. Absent means "inherit" at both levels, so the default stays one number under our control rather than being frozen into stored settings. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…edence Three defects a second-model review found in the load bound. An abort landing while the import was stalled settled nothing: the signal was not part of the race, so an unmounted component kept the promise, its closures and its timer alive for the whole bound and then reported a load failure for what was a cancellation. The signal is raced now and rejects as protect_check_aborted, matching the contract every other path already honours. setTimeout stores its delay in a signed 32-bit int, so a configured value above 2^31-1 overflowed and fired immediately — failing every load instantly, which is the exact opposite of what an operator asking for a long timeout wanted. The value is clamped, and non-finite values fall back to the default rather than being passed to the timer. The precedence doc and the code disagreed. The doc said an absent loader value inherits the instance-wide one, while the code takes the first APPLIED loader that specifies one — so a value set on one of two live loaders would apply to browsers that got the other. The code is the sensible rule, since there is no single "the" loader once more than one is live, so the doc now states it and warns that an instance running two loaders should set this on both or neither. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds optional Protect challenge module-load timeout configuration. Valid loader values propagate through Protect and Clerk to the UI runner. Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change is mergeable with owner follow-up to clarify that only finite, positive timeout overrides participate in loader precedence; the remaining risk is limited to misleading configuration documentation. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@packages/shared/src/types/protectConfig.ts`:
- Around line 47-52: Update the documentation for challenge_load_timeout_ms to
state that the first applied loader with a finite, positive value wins, while
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Define valid values in the precedence rule.
Lines 47-50 say the first applied loader that “specifies one” wins. packages/clerk-js/src/core/protect.ts Lines 64-69 skip non-numeric, non-finite, and non-positive values. State that the first applied loader with a finite positive value wins. This makes the documented fallback behavior match the implementation.
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In `@packages/shared/src/types/protectConfig.ts` around lines 47 - 52, Update the
documentation for challenge_load_timeout_ms to state that the first applied
loader with a finite, positive value wins, while the instance-wide value applies
only when no applied loader specifies such a value.
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Summary
The SDK raced an entire verification against a fixed 60s wall: loading the module, running it, and the round-trip that follows. That is a duration the SDK is not in a position to judge. Which verification runs is decided by the backend per request, long after the bundle shipped, and what one does varies from waiting on a person to transferring data over an unknown connection — so no single number is right for all of them.
When the wall tripped, a verification that was progressing normally was aborted and shown to the user as "Verification didn't complete in time." Retrying could not help: a re-run restarts the work from the beginning, so any connection slow enough to trip the wall once would trip it again. The user was offered a retry they could never win.
The bound now covers only loading the module, and stops there. Once the module takes control it governs its own duration and the SDK imposes no limit.
What changed
useProtectCheckRunnerno longer racesexecuteProtectCheckagainst a timer. The wall and itsAbortControllertrigger are gone.executeProtectCheckbounds the dynamicimport()alone, defaulting to 60s and clamped to 600s. Deliberately generous: nothing legitimate waits on this timer, because its only job is a connection that is accepted and then never answered. Every other load failure — a blocking Content-Security-Policy, DNS, a 404, a body that isn't a valid module — rejects the import on its own and needs no timer to notice.challenge_load_timeout_msoverrides that default, on a loader or on the instance. Absent means "inherit" at both levels, so the default stays one number under our control rather than being frozen into stored configuration.Per loader because loaders roll out gradually: while a new one ramps, two are live for the same instance at once, and the new one may need a different value from the one it replaces. Which loader a browser was assigned is a random draw per page load and cannot be recomputed from the config afterwards, so
Protectreports what the applied loader asked for.Precedence is across the applied set, not per loader: the first applied loader that specifies a value wins, and the instance-wide value applies only when none does. There is no single "the" loader once more than one is live, so an instance running two at once should set this on both or on neither. Documented on the field.
Verification
@clerk/shared,@clerk/clerk-jsand@clerk/uiall build clean.The new cases pin the behaviour that matters: a module that never arrives fails as a load error; an abort during a stalled load settles immediately as a cancellation rather than waiting out the bound; an oversized timeout is clamped instead of overflowing; an override replaces the default rather than racing alongside it; and a verification running far longer than any load bound still resolves. That last one is what would have caught the original bug.
Risk and rollback
A verification that genuinely hangs after taking control now hangs rather than failing at 60s. That is the intended trade — bounding it is the module's responsibility, not the SDK's — and it is the one behaviour change a reviewer should weigh. Nothing here alters a wire format or a stored value, and an instance with no
challenge_load_timeout_msconfigured behaves exactly as before apart from the removed wall.The backend field this reads lands separately. Until it does the override is inert and harmlessly falls back to the default.