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GUARDIAN_MISMATCH

The guardian in the transaction is not the sender’s active guardian.

HTTP status422
GroupRelay path
RetryableNo — sending it again changes nothing
Re-signNONE — do not ask the user to sign anything

What happened​

The account’s guardian on chain differs from the one named in the transaction.

What to do​

Read the account’s active guardian from the network and rebuild.

The problem document​

Every error is application/problem+json (RFC 9457) with the same shape:

{
"type": "https://docs.co-relayer.com/errors/guardian-mismatch",
"title": "The guardian in the transaction is not the sender’s active guardian.",
"status": 422,
"detail": "A sentence about this specific occurrence.",
"instance": "req_01JB…",
"code": "GUARDIAN_MISMATCH",
"retryable": false,
"resign": "NONE",
"hint": "Read the account’s active guardian from the network and rebuild."
}

See the error model for what each member means and how to handle unknown codes.