/**
 * Depends-waiver audit trail.
 *
 * Records waiver entries to `.cleo/audit/depends-waiver.jsonl` when a caller
 * completes a task whose own work is done but whose `depends` edges point at
 * tasks that are not yet in a terminal state, by supplying
 * `--waive-depends "<reason>"` to bypass the `E_CLEO_DEPENDENCY` gate.
 *
 * Pattern mirrors `cancelled-child-waiver-audit.ts` (T10538) and
 * `premature-close-audit.ts` (T1632) — one JSONL file per audit concern,
 * created on demand, appended atomically.
 *
 * @task T11954 — DHQ-071: complete hard-blocks on stale/over-specified depends
 * @epic T11679
 */
/**
 * A single entry in the depends-waiver audit file.
 *
 * Written whenever `cleo complete <taskId>` is called while the task has one or
 * more non-terminal `depends` edges AND the caller supplies `--waive-depends`
 * to bypass the dependency gate.
 */
export interface DependsWaiverAuditEntry {
    /** Task ID that was completed despite having unresolved depends edges. */
    taskId: string;
    /**
     * IDs (and their then-current status) of the unresolved dependencies that
     * were waived. Captured for post-mortem traceability so a reviewer can
     * confirm the over-specified edge was genuinely waivable.
     */
    unresolvedDeps: Array<{
        id: string;
        status: string;
    }>;
    /** Human-readable reason supplied by the caller for waiving the depends edges. */
    waiverReason: string;
    /** ISO-8601 timestamp of the waiver. */
    timestamp: string;
    /** Agent / user identity that performed the completion. */
    agent: string;
}
/**
 * Append a depends-waiver entry to the audit file.
 *
 * Creates `.cleo/audit/` if it does not exist and atomically appends a
 * single-line JSON record to `.cleo/audit/depends-waiver.jsonl`.
 *
 * @param entry - The audit entry to append.
 * @param projectRoot - Absolute path to the project root (defaults to `getProjectRoot()`).
 */
export declare function appendDependsWaiverAudit(entry: DependsWaiverAuditEntry, projectRoot?: string): Promise<void>;
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