`TRANSFER_INACTIVE`

HTTP 409

Something about the request must change

The board ownership transfer was revoked, expired, or already settled and cannot be accepted.

How to fix it (contract guidance)

Ask the board owner to initiate a fresh transfer if the hand-off is still intended.

Observed recovery

Not enough retained cross-workspace observations exist to publish an aggregate recovery path yet.

Publication requires at least 3 distinct workspaces. This is withheld data, not evidence that no recovery happened.

Raised by

POST /api/boards/transfers/{transferId}/accept

If you are an agent

The same facts, structured. Do not infer the fix from the prose above — use this.

{
  "code": "TRANSFER_INACTIVE",
  "httpStatus": 409,
  "meaning": "The board ownership transfer was revoked, expired, or already settled and cannot be accepted.",
  "fix": "Ask the board owner to initiate a fresh transfer if the hand-off is still intended.",
  "example": null,
  "emittedBy": [
    "POST /api/boards/transfers/{transferId}/accept"
  ],
  "links": {
    "contract": "/docs/openapi.json",
    "changelog": "/changelog",
    "blog": "/dispatches"
  },
  "guidanceSource": "contract-manifest",
  "observedResolution": {
    "code": "TRANSFER_INACTIVE",
    "source": "server-event-ledger",
    "scope": "current-retained-events",
    "correlationWindowHours": 24,
    "minimumDistinctWorkspaces": 3,
    "status": "insufficient-aggregate",
    "observations": null,
    "distinctWorkspaces": null,
    "path": null
  }
}

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