Index: src/routes/guardian.js
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--- src/routes/guardian.js	(revision 329873ef53dfe145c0b016df53555fa8de5db70c)
+++ src/routes/guardian.js	(revision c8e03c6553401711c2e513b26dd53e24cc5a9486)
@@ -516,7 +516,14 @@
     // the proposal exists and a threshold of two can never be met.
     if (r.state === 'open') {
+      const wardActor = AP.actorId(base, localWard.slug);
       for (const g of Guardianship.listGuardians(localWard.slug).map((x) => x.other_uri)) {
         if (g === me) continue;
-        AP.deliverToActor(site, g, { ...offer, to: [g] }).catch(() => { /* queued */ });
+        // Signed by the ward, so the body must say the ward: anything else is
+        // a signer mismatch and the receiver answers 401 (as it should).
+        AP.deliverToActor(
+          db.prepare('SELECT * FROM sites WHERE slug = ?').get(localWard.slug),
+          g,
+          { ...offer, actor: wardActor, to: [g], 'shaer:proposer': me },
+        ).catch(() => { /* queued */ });
       }
     }
Index: src/services/guardianship/handshake.js
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--- src/services/guardianship/handshake.js	(revision 329873ef53dfe145c0b016df53555fa8de5db70c)
+++ src/services/guardianship/handshake.js	(revision c8e03c6553401711c2e513b26dd53e24cc5a9486)
@@ -317,6 +317,13 @@
           for (const g of relations.listGuardians(site.slug).map((x) => x.other_uri)) {
             if (g === actor) continue;   // the proposer already answered
+            // The forward goes out AS THE WARD, because the ward's key signs
+            // it. Keeping the proposer in `actor` made every receiver answer
+            // 401 signer mismatch, and rightly so: the body claimed one author
+            // and the signature proved another. §5.3 forwards a gated follow
+            // the same way. Who proposed it rides along separately, for the
+            // guardian's screen.
             deps.deliverTo(site, g, {
-              id: offerId, type: 'Offer', actor, to: [g], object: activity.object,
+              id: offerId, type: 'Offer', actor: me, to: [g], object: activity.object,
+              'shaer:proposer': actor,
             }).catch(() => { /* the delivery queue retries */ });
           }
@@ -333,5 +340,8 @@
         gated.recordGatedReview(site.slug, {
           id: offerId, wardUri: gs.ward, wardInbox: wardDoc && wardDoc.inbox,
-          proposer: actor, feature: gs.feature, value: gs.value,
+          // A forward is signed by the ward, so `actor` is the ward; the
+          // guardian who opened it travels in shaer:proposer.
+          proposer: (typeof activity['shaer:proposer'] === 'string' ? activity['shaer:proposer'] : actor),
+          feature: gs.feature, value: gs.value,
         });
         notify(site.slug, { kind: 'gated_review', feature: gs.feature, value: gs.value, ward: gs.ward });