diff --git a/go/buscompose/accounts.go b/go/buscompose/accounts.go
index 2f64e70..3a40eb5 100644
--- a/go/buscompose/accounts.go
+++ b/go/buscompose/accounts.go
@@ -219,6 +219,10 @@ type LeaseHolder struct {
 	// HandedBy is the credential that wrote it (the operator's), and Why its reason.
 	HandedBy string `json:"handed-by,omitempty"`
 	Why      string `json:"why,omitempty"`
+	// Ask is the operator's ask whose warrant handed it (novox/hq ADR 0582 clause 3: "with the why, the ask and the
+	// time"), and At when it was written. Neither turns the lease: LeaseHandedAway reads HandedTo alone.
+	Ask string    `json:"ask,omitempty"`
+	At  time.Time `json:"at,omitzero"`
 }
 
 // LeaseHandedAway reads the lease key as a getter answered it (its value, whether it was there, the read's error) and
diff --git a/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go b/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
index 6c2f676..112ee09 100644
--- a/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
+++ b/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
@@ -561,6 +561,9 @@ func TestTheCopiedComposerComposesAsTheControllers(t *testing.T) {
 		}{
 			{"a controller holds it", `{"instance":"novox/1234/2026-10-27T20:00:00Z","epoch":57}`, true, nil, false},
 			{"handed away", `{"handed-to":"the operator's hand-over","handed-by":"person.jochen"}`, true, nil, true},
+			// ADR 0582 clause 3 (774/S3): the write names the ask and the time, which turn nothing.
+			{"handed to mesh-grants with its ask and time", `{"handed-to":"mesh-grants","handed-by":"person.jochen","why":"w",` +
+				`"ask":"lease-write-1","at":"2026-11-02T10:00:00Z"}`, true, nil, true},
 			{"expired or deleted", ``, false, nil, false},
 			{"unreadable", ``, false, errors.New("refused"), false},
 			{"not a holder", `[1]`, true, nil, false},
diff --git a/go/delivery/delivery_test.go b/go/delivery/delivery_test.go
index 0ddd2a3..8bdc8bd 100644
--- a/go/delivery/delivery_test.go
+++ b/go/delivery/delivery_test.go
@@ -242,9 +242,22 @@ func TestRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
 		back, err := DecodeGrantsUserList(raw)
-		if err != nil || back.Digest != digest || back.LeftOut == nil || back.Follow != FollowGrants {
+		if err != nil || back.Digest != digest || back.LeftOut == nil || back.Follow != FollowGrants || back.LeaseHanded {
 			t.Fatalf("decoded %+v, %v", back, err)
 		}
+		// ADR 0582 clause 3 (issue 774, 774/S3): a key written before the flag existed reads not handed; one written with
+		// it reads handed.
+		if old, err := DecodeGrantsUserList([]byte(`{"v":1,"follow":"grants","digest":"","object":"","sealed_to":"",` +
+			`"node":"novox","revision":3,"users":40,"left_out":[],"at":"2026-10-30T10:00:00Z"}`)); err != nil || old.LeaseHanded {
+			t.Errorf("a key from before the lease write decodes %+v, %v", old, err)
+		}
+		g.LeaseHanded = true
+		if raw, err := EncodeGrantsUserList(g); err != nil || !bytes.Contains(raw, []byte(`"lease-handed":true`)) {
+			t.Errorf("the handed flag is written as %s, %v", raw, err)
+		} else if back, err := DecodeGrantsUserList(raw); err != nil || !back.LeaseHanded {
+			t.Errorf("the handed flag reads back %+v, %v", back, err)
+		}
+		g.LeaseHanded = false
 		for _, bad := range []GrantsUserList{{Follow: "both", Digest: digest, Object: g.Object},
 			{Follow: FollowGrants, Digest: digest, Object: "other"}, {Follow: FollowGrants, Digest: "md5:x", Object: "md5:x"}} {
 			if _, err := EncodeGrantsUserList(bad); err == nil {
diff --git a/go/delivery/userlist.go b/go/delivery/userlist.go
index 0860350..ea27e77 100644
--- a/go/delivery/userlist.go
+++ b/go/delivery/userlist.go
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ type GrantsUserList struct {
 	// LeftOut are the users the list leaves out for want of a hash in the vault.
 	LeftOut []string  `json:"left_out"`
 	At      time.Time `json:"at"`
+	// LeaseHanded says the controller's lease is handed to the grants part (novox/hq ADR 0582 clause 3, ADR 0571 clause
+	// 8): from then on the bus node follows this list alone and never falls back to the controller's. A key written
+	// before it reads false.
+	LeaseHanded bool `json:"lease-handed,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // EncodeGrantsUserList is g as JSON at Version; it refuses a value the bus node could not follow.