/**
 * Shared task metadata normalization and safe formatting.
 *
 * Task storage currently serializes `context` as a JSON string, while callers
 * and test doubles may provide an already-parsed object. Keep that type
 * compatibility at the adapter boundary instead of dropping the field in a
 * summary DTO or coercing objects to "[object Object]" in the renderer.
 */
export type TaskContextValue = Record<string, unknown> | unknown[] | string;
/**
 * Normalize the task-store/CLI representations accepted by the plugin.
 *
 * - null/undefined/whitespace-only values become undefined;
 * - JSON object/array strings become structured values;
 * - malformed JSON and ordinary strings remain displayable strings;
 * - parsed objects/arrays are preserved without lossy coercion.
 */
export declare function normalizeTaskContext(value: unknown): TaskContextValue | undefined;
/** Format a metadata value for a preformatted, HTML-escaped text node. */
export declare function formatTaskMetadata(value: unknown, empty?: string): string;
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