export interface NpmInvocation {
    command: string;
    argsPrefix: string[];
    source: 'override' | 'npm_execpath' | 'node_sibling' | 'node_install' | 'path';
}
interface ResolveNpmInvocationOptions {
    env?: NodeJS.ProcessEnv;
    execPath?: string;
    platform?: NodeJS.Platform;
    exists?: (path: string) => boolean;
}
/**
 * Resolve npm without assuming the process inherited an interactive-shell
 * PATH. macOS GUI-launched notebook processes commonly retain Node's absolute
 * executable but omit Homebrew or nvm from PATH; npm normally lives beside
 * that executable or in its adjacent lib/node_modules tree.
 *
 * E2E-005: connector installation must work from the same built CLI whether
 * it was launched by a shell, an npm script, or the desktop/browser UI.
 */
export declare function resolveNpmInvocation(options?: ResolveNpmInvocationOptions): NpmInvocation;
export declare function describeNpmInvocation(invocation: NpmInvocation): string;
export {};
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