fix(nextjs,backend): Accommodate JWT OAuth access tokens

[wobsoriano]

Description

Core 2 version of #7755

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🦋 Changeset detected

Latest commit: 8ff650f

The changes in this PR will be included in the next version bump.

This PR includes changesets to release 11 packages

Name	Type
@clerk/backend	Patch
@clerk/nextjs	Patch
@clerk/agent-toolkit	Patch
@clerk/astro	Patch
@clerk/express	Patch
@clerk/fastify	Patch
@clerk/nuxt	Patch
@clerk/react-router	Patch
@clerk/remix	Patch
@clerk/tanstack-react-start	Patch
@clerk/testing	Patch

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commit: 8ff650f

[wobsoriano]

!snapshot

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