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  One of the most jarring breaking changes in Next.js 15 is the shift of standard request APIs—specifically   cookies() ,   headers() ,   params , and   searchParams —from synchronous to asynchronous functions. If you recently upgraded a project using Supabase Auth, you likely encountered the runtime error:  Error: cookies() should be awaited . Furthermore, even after patching the syntax, many developers find their authentication sessions fail to persist, resulting in infinite login loops or immediate logouts on page refresh. This guide details the root cause of these issues in the Next.js 15 architecture and provides the robust, production-ready implementation required to fix Supabase authentication flows. The Root Cause: Asynchronous Request IO In Next.js 14 and earlier,  cookies()  allowed synchronous access to the request's cookie store. While convenient, this forced the underlying rendering engine to block execution until headers were fully p...