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Description

A sign-in that uses an enterprise connection can be asked for a verification challenge at the point it hands off to the identity provider. When that happens the server returns before it has prepared the hand-off, so there is no external URL to follow.

SignIn.authenticateWithRedirect treated that response as invalid and threw, and the sign-in dead-ended on an error the user cannot act on.

It now returns instead, and the caller routes to the challenge. Once resolved, the hand-off is retried with continueSignIn and prepared for real. If the challenge arrives on create, the prepare is skipped rather than issued and discarded.

Effects and risks

  • The early return applies to every strategy that goes through this method, not only enterprise connections. For OAuth the response today carries both a pending challenge and a redirect URL, so this stops at the challenge where it previously redirected and picked it up on the callback. Both routes end at the same place; this is the shorter one.
  • authenticateWithEnterpriseSSO now awaits rather than returning its promise, so the loading state it holds is released by the navigation instead of by the redirect.
  • No change when nothing is pending: the redirect is followed exactly as before.

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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
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  • 📖 Refactoring / dependency upgrade / documentation
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…nterprise connection

Preparing an enterprise SSO hand-off can return a pending verification
challenge, in which case the server returns before it builds a
verification and there is no external URL to follow. That response was
reported as invalid and the sign-in dead-ended with an error.

Return from the hand-off instead, and route to the challenge so it can
be resolved and the hand-off retried.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Enterprise SSO sign-in redirect handling now pauses external navigation when a pending Protect challenge exists after sign-in creation or SSO preparation. The Sign-In UI awaits redirect authentication and routes pending challenges to protect-check. Tests cover challenge-gated and normal external redirect flows. A changeset declares patch releases for @clerk/clerk-js and @clerk/ui.

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This change routes users to verification challenges during enterprise sign-in handoff while preserving the existing redirect path when no challenge is present. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/__tests__/SignIn.test.ts (1)

328-334: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the OAuth challenge with an external redirect URL.

The pending fixture has first_factor_verification: null and the new tests only invoke enterprise_sso. Add an OAuth case where a Protect challenge and external_verification_redirect_url are both present. Assert that authenticateWithRedirect does not navigate.

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In `@packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/__tests__/SignIn.test.ts` around lines
328 - 334, Add a SignIn unit test covering the OAuth flow when a pending Protect
challenge includes an external_verification_redirect_url, alongside the existing
enterprise_sso coverage. Invoke authenticateWithRedirect and assert that
navigation is not performed, using the existing SignIn test fixtures and
helpers.

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In `@packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/SignIn.ts`:
- Around line 391-394: Update the pending Protect challenge comment near
continueSignIn to remove the incorrect claim that no external URL exists and
state tersely that navigation waits until the Protect challenge is resolved.

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In `@packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/__tests__/SignIn.test.ts`:
- Around line 328-334: Add a SignIn unit test covering the OAuth flow when a
pending Protect challenge includes an external_verification_redirect_url,
alongside the existing enterprise_sso coverage. Invoke authenticateWithRedirect
and assert that navigation is not performed, using the existing SignIn test
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A challenge can coexist with an external redirect URL, so the comment's
claim that none exists was only true of the enterprise hand-off.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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