I’m seeing a consistent Vercel World Workflow bug that only appears in production. Locally, everything runs flawlessly… flows start, steps execute, routes resolve, logs make sense. But the moment it’s deployed to Vercel (Pro plan), every run gets stuck in pending forever. Workflow does build. It d…

I figure out my issue and leaving this message here in case other people get stuck. Because I implemented authentication and had a middleware/proxy the workflow routes were not accesible so the workflow was starting but was then stuck on pending.

Isn’t the product called “Workflow” ? [Screenshot 2025-12-12 at 5.10.27 PM] [Screenshot 2025-12-12 at 5.10.59 PM]

@sourfruit it actually is “Vercel Workflow” singular. Thanks for checking! [CleanShot 2025-12-17 at 18.22.18@2x] I removed the other tag

Thanks for sharing an example repo. Starting to dig into this now, but it’ll take me some time. In case it helps before I can get through debugging, I asked v0 for some suggestions. Looks like you may have already tried some of this, but here’s what it gave me: Here are a few things to check: Ro…

Hello. I am encountering the exact same issue and have tried everything i can think of. It’s working perfectly locally but I simply am not able to get it working in the Vercel deployment. @amyegan i tried you solution, defined handlers explicitly, and it works locally but simply does not work when …

I had the same issue and also figured out that it was missing an exception in the middleware file.

Thanks for coming back to share your solutions :black_heart:

Vercel Workflows stuck Pending on Vercel; work locally

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