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The WhatsApp phone-code suite failed on every PR from the evening of September 10. The cause was outside this repo. FAPI enforces a per-instance WhatsApp OTP quota of 200 prepares per rolling day, counted test-mode fictional numbers against it, and silently answered the sign-up or sign-in create with channel: "sms" once the window filled. The suite's only symptom was six 10s locator timeouts per test waiting for the "Send code via SMS instead" link, and each retry burned more quota.

This change asserts the verification channel on the create response for all three tests. When FAPI downgrades the channel the test now fails immediately with a message naming the likely quota exhaustion. The backend counting of test numbers is fixed separately in https://github.com/clerk/clerk_go/pull/22085.

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When the instance's WhatsApp OTP quota is exhausted FAPI silently
answers the sign-up or sign-in create with channel "sms". The suite
then spent six 10s locator timeouts per test hunting for the
"Send code via SMS instead" link. Assert the channel on the create
response so the failure names its cause.
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Walkthrough

The integration tests add a shared assertion for sign-up and sign-in responses. The assertion verifies that the response channel remains WhatsApp instead of changing to SMS. The sign-up flow and both sign-in flows use the assertion after phone submission. A Changesets metadata block marks the change.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 50feb

Some API failures may appear as generic test exceptions instead of actionable quota or channel errors. This is a low-risk, test-only issue.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 1 files. (1 skipped: 1 … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the WhatsApp test changes, the FAPI channel downgrade, and the fast-failure behavior.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: making the WhatsApp end-to-end suite fail fast when FAPI downgrades the channel.
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In `@integration/tests/whatsapp-phone-code.test.ts`:
- Around line 11-12: Update the response-channel selectors in
expectWhatsAppChannel for /sign_ups and /sign_ins to treat parsed response
bodies as unknown, validate that the selected verification object exists and has
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'/sign_ups': (body: any) => body.verifications.phone_number.channel,
'/sign_ins': (body: any) => body.first_factor_verification.channel,

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Validate the FAPI response before reading the channel.

Successful phone-code requests create a verification before serialization, but expectWhatsAppChannel also receives POST responses from error paths. Those responses can omit the successful response shape or contain a null verification, so the current dereference throws before reporting the API error or channel mismatch. Treat the parsed body as unknown, validate the selected verification object and channel, and include the raw response in the diagnostic when validation fails.

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In `@integration/tests/whatsapp-phone-code.test.ts` around lines 11 - 12, Update
the response-channel selectors in expectWhatsAppChannel for /sign_ups and
/sign_ins to treat parsed response bodies as unknown, validate that the selected
verification object exists and has a valid channel before reading it, and
include the raw response in diagnostics when validation fails. Preserve
successful channel extraction while preventing dereferences on error or
null-verification responses.

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