Failed to sync Clerk domains. Please try again later. Error Message on every republish attempt

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Summary

A Replit AI agent called an internal function (setupClerkWhitelabelAuth()) without user instruction, which corrupted the Clerk domain sync state for my deployment. Every republish attempt has failed for 6+ hours with the error “Failed to sync Clerk domains.”

Project

Replit app: chipdb.replit.app
Custom domain: nflprospectsdatabase.com
Deployment type: Autoscale
Exact error on every Republish

Failed to sync Clerk domains

What the agent did

During a session, a Replit AI agent called setupClerkWhitelabelAuth() — an internal Replit function, not user-initiated code. This is what introduced the corrupted sync state. The agent should never have had access to call this function on a live production deployment.

What I have already tried

Disconnected nflprospectsdatabase .com custom domain from the deployment
Republished to chipdb.replit.app only — still fails with same error
Re-added nflprospectsdatabase .com — still fails
Checked .replit file — clean, no Clerk entry in [agent] integrations (only stripe:1.0.0)
Checked Clerk dashboard — no obviously incorrect domain entries
Opened a support ticket (#352759) — escalated but unresolved after 6+ hours
What I believe needs to happen

The Clerk whitelabel sync state tied to this deployment needs to be reset or cleared on Replit’s backend. This is not fixable from the project side — the corrupted state lives entirely in Replit’s infrastructure.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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How was it configured before? Clerk directly?

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Thanks for your response.

Yes, Clerk was configured directly through Replit’s built-in integration. The project was set up using Replit’s native Clerk whitelabel auth system, not a manual Clerk account setup. Everything was working correctly (deployments publishing fine, auth working on the live site) until a Replit AI agent called setupClerkWhitelabelAuth() during a session — an internal Replit function that I did not instruct it to call.

From what I can tell, that function made changes to the Clerk domain sync state on Replit’s backend infrastructure, which is what broke all subsequent republish attempts. The project files and .replit config are clean — there’s no Clerk entry in [agent] integrations and nothing unusual in the code.

Thanks!

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