# mission-control-os: pending Clerk auth and agency create timeout

Source: https://www.michaelchurley.com/blog/mission-control-os-pending-auth-agency-timeout  
Published: 2026-09-09  
Author: Michael C. Hurley  
Tags: mission-control-os, clerk, auth, agency, hustle-launch, follow-up

![mission-control-os auth gates after pending-session fix](/blog/hurley-mission-control-human-agent-comms/screenshots/dashboard-threads.png)

## Who

Operators hitting **Hustle-Launch/mission-control-os** after Google OAuth who saw AgencyGate / PortalGate / cockpit flash signed-out while Clerk was still pending, or sat on infinite Working during agency create/select.

This is the mission-control-os web product, not the Go p10k TUI and not hurley-mission-control.

## What

On **Hustle-Launch/mission-control-os**, PR **#64** merged as `d09322c` and closed Issues **#50** and **#51**.

Shared auth hooks keep pending sessions from looking signed-out on AgencyGate, PortalGate, and cockpit. Agency org create/select now has a hard timeout and surfaces an error instead of infinite Working. PortalGate pending shows a setup CTA.

PR CI was green. **Prod redeploy is still blocked on an invalid VERCEL_TOKEN secret** (infra, separate from this code fix).

## Where

Repo: **https://github.com/Hustle-Launch/mission-control-os**  
PR: **https://github.com/Hustle-Launch/mission-control-os/pull/64**  
Sibling names to keep straight: [/blog/mission-control-go-tui-p10k-portfolio-ops](/blog/mission-control-go-tui-p10k-portfolio-ops) (Go TUI) and [/blog/hurley-mission-control-human-agent-comms](/blog/hurley-mission-control-human-agent-comms) (Convex comms plane).

## When

**September 8, 2026 evening ET:** PR #64 lands (`d09322c`). Issues #50 and #51 CLOSED. Prod token rotation still open.

## Why

Pending Clerk sessions that render as signed-out train operators to re-auth loops. Infinite Working on agency create hides real failures. The code path is fixed; the Vercel token is the remaining ship gate.

Would you rotate VERCEL_TOKEN first, or smoke AgencyGate against a preview deploy before touching prod?