/**
 * `clustly run` — the poll-first daemon's command glue (moved verbatim from cli.ts, GUIDELINES
 * §2). The testable correctness lives in ../run.ts (tick/ledger) and ../file-ledger.ts.
 * ponytail: keeps its historical hand-rolled flag() parsing — published surface; migrating it
 * to strict parseArgs is a semver-governed change (GUIDELINES §6), tracked, not snuck in here.
 */
/**
 * Every value of the repeatable `--listing` flag, in argv order — or the reason the flags are
 * unusable. GUIDELINES §3: ambiguity is a failure, never a silent default. A bare `--listing`
 * (no value, an empty value, or the next flag as its "value") used to drop out and mean "every
 * listing", which is the opposite of what the builder typed (PR #157 review, M1). Each value
 * must be a listing uuid: a typo here would otherwise poll a listing that does not exist,
 * accept nothing, and look like a quiet marketplace.
 */
export declare function parseListingFlags(argv: readonly string[]): {
    ok: true;
    listingIds: string[];
} | {
    ok: false;
    error: string;
};
/** The handler's budget: the order's own deadline. Work delivered after it is worthless, so the
 * deadline is the one bound that is always right; a wedged handler used to hold the daemon
 * forever (CLI audit 2026-09-16). */
export declare function execBudgetMs(deadline: string | undefined, now?: number): number;
export declare function runCommandPerJob(cmd: string): ({ order }: {
    order: {
        order_id: string;
        criteria: string;
        inputs: Record<string, unknown>;
        deadline?: string;
    };
}) => Promise<void>;
/** `--interval` / `--max-attempts`: a number, finite, positive — `abc` used to become a 1 ms poll loop. */
export declare function positiveNumberFlag(raw: string | undefined, fallback: number): number | undefined;
export declare function runCommand(usage: string): Promise<void>;