# propose_ownership_transfer

Propose that a promise should belong to a different named person, from the members list on get_promise_setup. Ownership moves only when the owner or an administrator proposes the transfer and the new owner accepts it; this does neither.

Reviewed 2026-10-01. Read the [current operating instructions](https://app.balladeer.ai/agent) and the [tool index](/docs/mcp-reference.md). This reference does not authorize the action.

## Parameters

```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "explicitHumanAction": {
      "description": "Must be true only when the person explicitly asked to protect or change this behavior. Ambient inference is forbidden.",
      "type": "boolean",
      "const": true
    },
    "reason": {
      "description": "Why, in the person's own words where they gave you any. It is recorded on the proposal and read by whoever decides it. Name nobody in it: Balladeer records who connected you as the person behind this act, and a name from git, a commit or a file is not the person in the conversation. Say \"the person\" or quote their words.",
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 2000
    },
    "promiseId": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^prom_[a-z0-9]{8,64}$"
    },
    "newOwnerId": {
      "description": "Membership ID of the person who should own this promise, from the members list on get_promise_setup. A name that is not on that list is refused and the refusal says who is.",
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 2000
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "explicitHumanAction",
    "reason",
    "promiseId",
    "newOwnerId"
  ],
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "additionalProperties": false
}
```

## Effect annotations

```json
{
  "readOnlyHint": false,
  "destructiveHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": false,
  "openWorldHint": false
}
```