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Hi, I have a simple Kratos API question: does the `/whoami` endpoint return a session only if the current session isn’t expired? (I.e. do I need to check the expiry of the sessions I retrieve from this endpoint?) Thanks!

you don’t need to check. Whoami returns a 401 if there is no valid session