API Crashes With 500 When JWT Auth Is Enabled

[Iamsdt]

After enabling JWT authentication in the configuration:

{
  "agent": "graph.react:app",
  "env": ".env",
  "auth": "jwt"
}

the API immediately fails on startup. Any request causes the server to crash with a 500 Internal Server Error. The application works normally when JWT is disabled.

Expected behavior
The API should start successfully and handle authenticated requests without crashing.

Actual behavior

• Server fails to start properly, or
• Any API call results in a 500 error
• Logs indicate a crash related to JWT initialization or middleware execution.

Steps to reproduce

1. Update configuration to use "auth": "jwt".
2. Start the server.
3. Hit any endpoint (even public ones).

Relevant logs / stack traces
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Environment

• Agent: graph.react:app
• Auth: jwt
• Config file: .env
• Runtime: (Node version / framework version)

Additional context
The failure appears as soon as JWT is enabled, suggesting an initialization or configuration handling bug.