bighelp plugin 3.16.0

3.16.0: teamwork that leads, busy chats, names on newer Hermes

This release makes Teamwork stronger and fixes agent names on Hermes 0.22 and later. The bighelp app can also show and stop a chat that another Hermes process runs.

In this release

• Agent names on newer Hermes (#161): Hermes 0.22 and later ship ruamel.yaml, not PyYAML. Alerts and the Teamwork brief now use the agent's name, plugin self-updates no longer stop at the capability check, and skill names read again.
• Teamwork leads (#162): each agent now hands work to the teammate whose role fits, without being told. Chats that were open before Teamwork get the brief once, as a note that Hermes keeps with the message.
• A chat busy in another process (#163): the new feature native-chat-activity-v1. The app can see that another Hermes process runs a chat (for example an agent that another agent asked), show it as busy, and stop it. Stop sends that process Ctrl-C, only when its pid and start time match the Hermes lease for that chat.

You need bighelp 2.5.0 (129) or later to see a busy chat and stop it. Older apps work as before.

Tested

• test_team, test_chat_activity, test_adapter, test_plugin_update_execution and test_plugin_update_launchd pass on Hermes main (2026-10-18).
• The full suite has fewer failures than 3.15.0. No new test fails.
• The Hermes plugin scan gives safe.

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