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description: Ask a teammate's agent a question and wait for the answer
argument-hint: "<agent> <question>"
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Ask a teammate's agent a question over the crew bus and wait for the answer.
Input: $ARGUMENTS
Steps:
1. The first word of the input is the teammate's handle; the rest is the question. If the handle looks wrong (empty question, or `list_agents` does not know it), ask me to rephrase instead of guessing.
2. Call `ask_agent` with `to` set to the handle and `question` set to the question, worded as I gave it. Use the default timeout.
3. If it returns `answered: true`, show me the answer verbatim, attributed to the teammate.
4. If it times out, read its `suggestion` and `recipient`. Resume once with the returned `question_message_id` as `resume_message_id` only when a window is `attending` or `waiting`, or announces a wake mechanism. Otherwise, and if the resume also times out, tell me the question is stored but unanswered, what is known about the recipient (offline, idle with no way to be woken, …), and that the reply will show up in my inbox. Do not keep blocking.