import type { EvidenceCorpus } from "../reflect/evidence.ts";
export interface MaterializedCorpusFile {
    /** Path relative to the run directory, e.g. corpus/sessions/<id>.md */
    path: string;
    bytes: number;
    description: string;
}
export interface MaterializedCorpus {
    /** Absolute path of the corpus directory. */
    directory: string;
    files: MaterializedCorpusFile[];
    /** Prompt-ready index: one line per file plus reading guidance. */
    indexText: string;
}
/**
 * Write the evidence corpus into <runDirectory>/corpus as an on-demand file tree and
 * return a compact prompt index. Sessions get a rendered markdown transcript (dense,
 * readable) plus a pretty-printed raw JSON twin for exact quoting — no pathological
 * single-line files.
 */
export declare function materializeEvidenceCorpus(corpus: EvidenceCorpus, runDirectory: string): Promise<MaterializedCorpus>;
/** Rehydrate a materialized corpus from its persisted index, when one exists. */
export declare function readMaterializedCorpus(runDirectory: string): Promise<MaterializedCorpus | undefined>;
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