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CCR auth-token refresh now accepts 'gateway placeholder' session tokens, not just JWTs

CCR auth-token refresh now also accepts a non-JWT 'gateway placeholder' session token

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KindInternal Changesin v2.1.277,
Under the hood

CCR auth-token refresh now also accepts a non-JWT 'gateway placeholder' session token

What

When Claude Code Remote refreshes its authentication token, the session token it receives can now be one of three things: a decodable JWT (checked as before for expiry and staleness), a non-JWT "gateway placeholder" token that must match either the token currently held in the process or a previously verified JWT, or a token that gets rejected outright. When a placeholder token is adopted, it's logged in the cli_worker_auth_refresh_adopted event with a new session_token field describing which of these cases matched.

Why

This lets remote authentication refresh handle a wider range of valid session token formats without weakening the checks that reject tokens that don't match anything trusted.

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