Updated 2026-08-01
The console sign-in keeps sending me back to the sign-in page
What is happening
The console's /sign-in page hands you to Triangle (the shared sign-on), then exchanges the session at /api/auth/session and lands you on the console home. A loop means one step in that chain completed and the next one refused.
Check, in order
- Cookies are allowed for the console domain. The session lives in hardened cookies — httpOnly, Secure, same-site. A browser or extension blocking them lets the sign-on succeed and the exchange fail silently.
- Do one full fresh sign-in. Sessions are short-lived and rotate continuously; a tab that held an old session can loop on a credential that no longer verifies. Sign out, close the tab, sign in again.
- Confirm your account is linked. The exchange resolves your platform identity — role, tier, brand memberships — and refuses an identity with no link. It never auto-creates accounts. If you were never provisioned, no amount of re-signing-in helps: request access from the public site or ask your brand's admin.
If you can sign in on one device but not another, the difference is almost always cookie policy on the failing device.
Deeper reading
Triangle: secure sign-on covers the public-to-console handoff; Triangle sessions & tokens covers the exchange, lifetimes, and storage discipline.
