fix(clerk-js,ui): clean up abandoned passkey registrations - #9812
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change removes server-side passkeys when browser registration fails after creation and preserves the original error. Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The English error can prompt users to retry before the 10-minute expiry and encounter the same pending-verification limit again. This is a localized passkey setup inconvenience; the cleanup race itself is fixed. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5❌ Failed checks (1 inconclusive)
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In `@packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/Passkey.ts`:
- Line 114: Update the registration-failure cleanup in registerPasskey() to
await passkey.delete() before propagating the original registration error, while
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Cancelling the browser passkey prompt left a pending registration that is hidden from the user's passkey list but still counts toward the unverified identification limit, silently blocking email and phone creation until it expired. Delete it on abandonment, show a loading state on the add-passkey button, and clear a stale error banner when a retry succeeds.
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In `@packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/Passkey.ts`:
- Around line 118-121: Update registerPasskey and the attemptVerification flow
so server-side verification failures remove the pending passkey while preserving
and rethrowing the original error. Keep cleanup limited to failures known to
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In `@packages/localizations/src/en-US.ts`:
- Line 2170: Update the pending-verifications message in the localization entry
to remove the duration-specific “a few minutes” wording. Keep the guidance to
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| 'Too many verifications are pending on this account. Remove an unverified email address, phone number, or wallet you no longer need, or wait a few minutes for an incomplete passkey setup to expire, then try again.', |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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rg -n -i -C 3 'passkey|unverified.identification|verification.*expir|expir.*verification|ttl' --glob '*.go' --glob '*.sql' --glob '*.yaml' --glob '*.yml' | head -n 500Repository: clerk/clerk_go
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rg -n -i -C 5 'too_many_unverified_identifications|unverified.?identification|unverified.*ident|ident.*unverified' --glob '!vendor/**' --glob '!node_modules/**' | head -n 600
printf '%s\n' '--- passkey-specific files and symbols ---'
rg -l -i 'passkey' --glob '!vendor/**' --glob '!node_modules/**' | head -n 200
printf '%s\n' '--- verification expiry candidates ---'
rg -n -i -C 4 'verification.*(ttl|expire|duration)|((ttl|expire|expiration).*(verification|identification))' --glob '!vendor/**' --glob '!node_modules/**' | head -n 400Repository: clerk/clerk_go
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printf '%s\n' '--- passkey references in backend and FAPI tests ---'
rg -n -i -C 4 'passkey' api/shared api/fapi tests/fapi tests/shared --glob '*.go' | head -n 800
printf '%s\n' '--- verification expiration assignments near passkey paths ---'
rg -n -i -C 5 'expire_at|expireat|expire.*time|expiration|expires' api/shared api/fapi --glob '*.go' | rg -i -C 3 'passkey|verification|identification|expire' | head -n 800Repository: clerk/clerk_go
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printf '%s\n' '--- passkey registration and expiry symbols ---'
rg -n -i -C 8 'create.*passkey|passkey.*(create|register)|ExpiryTime|ExpireAt' api/fapi/v1 api/shared constants tests/fapi --glob '*.go' | rg -i -C 4 'passkey|verification|expirytime|expireat' | head -n 1000Repository: clerk/clerk_go
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Use duration-neutral wording for passkey expiry.
Passkey registration verifications expire after 10 minutes. “Wait a few minutes” can prompt users to retry while the registration still counts toward the pending-verification limit.
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- 'Too many verifications are pending on this account. Remove an unverified email address, phone number, or wallet you no longer need, or wait a few minutes for an incomplete passkey setup to expire, then try again.',
+ 'Too many verifications are pending on this account. Remove an unverified email address, phone number, or wallet you no longer need, or wait for an incomplete passkey setup to expire, then try again.',📝 Committable suggestion
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| 'Too many verifications are pending on this account. Remove an unverified email address, phone number, or wallet you no longer need, or wait a few minutes for an incomplete passkey setup to expire, then try again.', | |
| 'Too many verifications are pending on this account. Remove an unverified email address, phone number, or wallet you no longer need, or wait for an incomplete passkey setup to expire, then try again.', |
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In `@packages/localizations/src/en-US.ts` at line 2170, Update the
pending-verifications message in the localization entry to remove the
duration-specific “a few minutes” wording. Keep the guidance to wait for an
incomplete passkey setup to expire before trying again.
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…ert-only records Carried over from F2: - /account gets a visible Sign out link (and Home) - "too many unverified contacts" when adding a passkey is a Clerk bug (abandoned passkey registrations count against the unverified-identification limit); fixed upstream in clerk/javascript#9812, not yet in a stable @clerk/nextjs. No code or dashboard change here. Data model: - 0002: migration ledger (each migration applies once), retention_class domain (durations unset: counsel item), updated_at and insert-only trigger functions, accounts.is_minor, wider account roles, id/created_at/retention_class on accounts and profiles - 0003: the other 37 tables from the prototype's data model; courses carry the version states draft/review/published/archived/restored; FK indexes - 0004: RLS on for every table, anon/authenticated revoked, default grants removed; read-own-row policies on accounts and profiles only; consent_records and audit_events insert-only via revoked privileges, restrictive policies and triggers - db/apply/F3.sql: one transaction to paste into the SQL Editor; db/verify.sql checks it - scripts/seed-dev.mjs: local-only seed that refuses production - Database tests on real Postgres (Postgres 17 in CI) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01P5EutjGLosULCCcrWnkocg
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Description
Cancelling the browser passkey prompt leaves a pending registration behind. That row is hidden from the user's passkey list but still counts toward the limit on unverified identifications, so a few abandoned attempts silently block adding an email address or phone number until they expire.
Passkey.registerPasskey()now removes the pending registration when the prompt is abandoned ,cancelled, timed out, or failed. Covering every path that can throw afterPOST /me/passkeyshas created the row.The delete is best-effort and is awaited before the registration error surfaces:
DELETE /v1/me/passkeys/{id}sits behind reverification, so if that window lapsed mid-prompt the failure is swallowed and the row falls back to expiring on its own, which is today's behaviour. Awaiting it closes a race where an immediate retry could be blocked by the row the user had just abandoned.In
<UserProfile />, the "Add a passkey" button gains a loading state, so a double-tap during the request can't start a second registration, and a failed attempt no longer leaves its error banner on screen after a later attempt succeeds.too_many_unverified_identificationsalso gets a localized message. Until now the block fell back to the API message, "There are too many unverified contacts for this user.", which names neither the cause nor a way out. The new copy names only remedies the user can actually act on: unverified emails, phones and wallets are visible and removable, while an abandoned passkey is not, so that case points at waiting for it to expire.Checklist
pnpm testruns as expected.pnpm buildruns as expected.Type of change