/**
 * The one way this CLI starts Google Chrome.
 *
 * `channel: 'chrome'` drives the browser the creator already has installed rather than a
 * Playwright-downloaded one, so installing the CLI stays a small, fast npm install. The cost is
 * that Chrome can be missing — and a missing browser must never read as a failure of the thing
 * the command was checking or recording, so the refusal names the browser and the command, not
 * the game.
 */
import { type Browser } from 'playwright-core';
export interface ChromeLaunchOptions {
    headless: boolean;
    args: string[];
    /** The command to name in the refusal, e.g. `bitmagic verify`. */
    command: string;
}
export declare function chromeMissingMessage(command: string): string;
export declare function launchSystemChrome(options: ChromeLaunchOptions): Promise<Browser>;