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Stacked on #10198.

auth.protect() ignored the token option in its return type when a predicate was passed first. auth.protect(() => true, { token: 'api_key' }) was typed as a session auth object while the call returns the API key auth object.

The predicate overload of AuthProtect now infers its return type from token, matching the options-only overloads. Calls without token keep the session auth object type.

Code that reads session-only fields such as sessionId from the result of a predicate call with a machine token now fails to compile.

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auth.protect() now infers its returned auth-object type from the token option for predicate and options-only overloads. The default token type is SessionTokenType. Type assertions cover default, explicit token, token-array, and 'any' cases, with and without a predicate. A patch changeset documents the correction.

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This type-only change improves return-type inference for auth.protect(). A narrow edge case remains: specifying a machine token type as the generic argument while omitting the token option. Normal usage and runtime behavior are unaffected.

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params?: (has: CheckAuthorizationFromSessionClaims) => boolean,
options?: AuthProtectOptions,
): Promise<SignedInAuthObject>;
options?: AuthProtectOptions & { token?: T },

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Require a token when the predicate return type is machine-specific.

auth.protect<typeof TokenType.ApiKey>(() => true) is allowed because token is optional. At runtime, an omitted token defaults to a session token. A signed-in session request therefore returns a session object even though this overload declares an API-key object. Code that uses API-key fields can then fail. Add a separate predicate overload for the omitted-token case, and require token in the machine-specific generic overload. Account for option objects whose token property is optional. TypeScript permits callers to specify a generic argument explicitly. (typescriptlang.org)

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Review comment at @packages/nextjs/src/server/protect.ts at line 66:
Update the `auth.protect` overloads around `AuthProtectOptions` so the
machine-specific generic overload requires a `token`, and add a distinct
predicate overload for calls that omit it. Ensure option objects with an
optional `token` property cannot select the machine-specific overload without
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