import { Issue } from './issue.js';
export type IssueFormat = 'md' | 'yaml';
export interface DecodedIssue {
    issue: Issue;
    format: IssueFormat;
    /**
     * Everything needed to reconstruct the file byte-for-byte apart from the
     * fields the model owns. Callers should treat this as opaque and pass it back
     * to encodeIssue unchanged.
     */
    raw: {
        data: Record<string, unknown>;
        body: string;
    };
    /**
     * Non-fatal observations: a normalized status, an unrecognized value, a
     * missing title. Surfaced so callers can report integrity problems rather
     * than discovering them months later.
     */
    warnings: string[];
}
/**
 * Split a bare-YAML record into its YAML head and any markdown tail at column 0.
 *
 * The column-0 anchor is load-bearing and must not gain `\s*`: headings indented
 * inside a `description:` block scalar are body text, not a tail, and matching
 * them would truncate the record at parse time. Phase 2 verified no record in
 * the store relies on the difference, but nothing else pins it, so it is pinned
 * by test here.
 */
export declare function splitBareYaml(content: string): {
    head: string;
    tail: string;
};
export declare function decodeIssue(filename: string, content: string): DecodedIssue;
export declare function encodeIssue(decoded: DecodedIssue): string;
/** Apply changes to a decoded record, keeping derived state consistent. */
export declare function applyIssueChanges(decoded: DecodedIssue, changes: Partial<Issue>): DecodedIssue;
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