diff --git a/.changeset/devbrowser-malformed-url-fragment.md b/.changeset/devbrowser-malformed-url-fragment.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..681874757e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/devbrowser-malformed-url-fragment.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+'@clerk/shared': patch
+'@clerk/clerk-js': patch
+---
+
+Fix Clerk failing to load in a development instance when the page URL has a fragment that is not valid percent-encoding, such as a truncated `#%E0%A4%A` from a clipped or wrapped link. Initialization threw `URIError: URI malformed` during the handshake, so the session was never loaded and every page showed the sign-in screen until the fragment was removed. Clerk now leaves such a fragment as it is and loads normally.
diff --git a/packages/shared/src/__tests__/devbrowser.spec.ts b/packages/shared/src/__tests__/devbrowser.spec.ts
index 4501c5aa78f..c3a973d187e 100644
--- a/packages/shared/src/__tests__/devbrowser.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/shared/src/__tests__/devbrowser.spec.ts
@@ -61,6 +61,21 @@ describe('extractDevBrowserFromURL(url)', () => {
     expect(replaceStateMock).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 
+  it('does not throw when the url hash is not valid percent-encoding', () => {
+    expect(extractDevBrowserFromURL(new URL('/foo?__clerk_db_jwt=token#%E0%A4%A', DUMMY_URL_BASE))).toEqual('token');
+    expect(replaceStateMock.mock.calls[0][2].href).toEqual(new URL('/foo#%E0%A4%A', DUMMY_URL_BASE).href);
+  });
+
+  it('does not call replaceState for a malformed hash with nothing to remove', () => {
+    expect(extractDevBrowserFromURL(new URL('/foo#%E0%A4%A', DUMMY_URL_BASE))).toEqual('');
+    expect(replaceStateMock).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('removes the legacy dev browser from a hash that is not valid percent-encoding', () => {
+    expect(extractDevBrowserFromURL(new URL('/foo#%E0%A4%A__clerk_db_jwt[token2]', DUMMY_URL_BASE))).toEqual('');
+    expect(replaceStateMock.mock.calls[0][2].href).toEqual(new URL('/foo#%E0%A4%A', DUMMY_URL_BASE).href);
+  });
+
   const testCases: Array<[string, string]> = [
     ['', ''],
     ['foo', ''],
@@ -69,6 +84,7 @@ describe('extractDevBrowserFromURL(url)', () => {
     ['/foo?__clerk_db_jwt=token', 'token'],
     ['?__clerk_db_jwt=token#foo', 'token'],
     ['/foo?bar=42&__clerk_db_jwt=token#qux__clerk_db_jwt[token2]', 'token'],
+    ['/foo?__clerk_db_jwt=token#%E0%A4%A', 'token'],
   ];
 
   test.each(testCases)(
diff --git a/packages/shared/src/devBrowser.ts b/packages/shared/src/devBrowser.ts
index f8157217304..788d3500556 100644
--- a/packages/shared/src/devBrowser.ts
+++ b/packages/shared/src/devBrowser.ts
@@ -46,6 +46,14 @@ const removeDevBrowserFromURLSearchParams = (_url: URL) => {
   return url;
 };
 
+const decodeURISafely = (value: string) => {
+  try {
+    return decodeURI(value);
+  } catch {
+    return value;
+  }
+};
+
 /**
  * Removes the __clerk_db_jwt dev browser from the URL hash, as well as
  * the legacy __dev_session from the URL searchParams
@@ -62,7 +70,7 @@ const removeLegacyDevBrowser = (_url: URL) => {
   const DEV_BROWSER_LEGACY_KEY = '__dev_session';
   const url = new URL(_url);
   url.searchParams.delete(DEV_BROWSER_LEGACY_KEY);
-  url.hash = decodeURI(url.hash).replace(DEV_BROWSER_MARKER_REGEXP, '');
+  url.hash = decodeURISafely(url.hash).replace(DEV_BROWSER_MARKER_REGEXP, '');
   if (url.href.endsWith('#')) {
     url.hash = '';
   }