[Bug]: Claude auth failure renders as plain result text with no re-login affordance

[Ashishjain608]

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• I searched existing issues and did not find a duplicate.
• I included enough detail to reproduce or investigate the problem.

Area

apps/web

Steps to reproduce

1. Have the Claude provider working in T3 Code.
2. Log out of Claude Code in a terminal (claude auth logout, or /logout in the CLI). An OAuth session that expires and fails to refresh produces the same state.
3. Send a message in an existing T3 thread on the Claude provider.

Expected behavior

T3 recognizes this as an authentication failure and surfaces something actionable: a "Claude is signed out" state with a log-in action (or at minimum a pointer to Settings → Providers and the CLI command), and the provider marked unauthenticated.

The failure is distinguishable from a normal failed turn, so the user knows the fix is re-authentication rather than a retry.

Actual behavior

The turn ends with the SDK's raw result string rendered as the assistant's reply:

Failed to authenticate: OAuth session expired and could not be refreshed

That is the entire response. The only affordance on it is the "Copy to clipboard" hover button. There is no log-in action, no link to provider settings, no retry, and nothing indicating the problem is outside the app. A user who does not already know to open a terminal and re-run claude auth login has no path forward from inside T3 — which matters most on mobile / T3 Connect, where there is no terminal to go to.

The information needed to do better is already present. The SDK marks this failure distinctly:

{"error":"authentication_failed","is_api_error_message":true}
{"result":"Failed to authenticate: OAuth session expired and could not be refreshed","type":"result"}

Grepping the shipped desktop bundle for OAuth session expired returns zero matches, so the string is passed through verbatim and nothing in T3 classifies it. This looks like a missing branch on error === "authentication_failed" rather than missing detection. The marker may need to be plumbed from the provider adapter in apps/server for the web timeline to render a distinct state.

Impact

Major degradation or frequent failure

Version or commit

T3 Code Nightly 0.0.34-nightly.20260819.1133

Environment

macOS 26.6.1 (Darwin 25.6.0) arm64, T3 Code Nightly 0.0.34-nightly.20260819.1133, Claude Code 2.1.239, Claude provider on claude.ai Max OAuth

Logs or stack traces

{"error":"authentication_failed","is_api_error_message":true}
{"result":"Failed to authenticate: OAuth session expired and could not be refreshed","type":"result"}

Screenshots, recordings, or supporting files

The thread shows the user's prompt, then a single unstyled line reading ...uthenticate: OAuth session expired and could not be refreshed, with a "Copy to clipboard" tooltip overlapping the start of the text. No other controls are rendered.

Workaround

Re-authenticate in a terminal (claude auth login), then start a new thread or restart T3 — per #6022, open threads hold stale sessions and keep reporting the old auth state after credentials are fixed.

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Related, but distinct:

• [Bug]: Claude provider credentials wiped (claudeAiOauth emptied, refresh token destroyed) after T3/CLI updates — recurring 'OAuth session expired and could not be refreshed' #6022 — a cause that produces this same string (credentials wiped, refresh token destroyed). This issue is about how the failure is presented, whatever the cause.
• [Bug]: Claude Settings reports authenticated while the launched CLI is logged out #7690 — Settings reports Claude authenticated while the launched CLI is logged out.
• [Bug]: Prompting a not logged-in Claude makes the message invisible in the GUI #4225 — prompting a logged-out Claude makes the user's message invisible in the GUI.