/**
 * Tiny shared shape helpers for the interpretation layer. They exist so the
 * unsafe cast to Record and the shell-word splitter each have exactly one
 * owner - quoting rules live in tokenize, not at call sites.
 */
export declare const asRecord: (value: unknown) => Record<string, unknown> | null;
export declare const readPath: (record: Record<string, unknown>, path: string) => unknown;
/**
 * Split a command line into shell words: whitespace separates, single or
 * double quotes group (so a flag inside quoted prompt text stays part of
 * that one word and can never be mistaken for a real flag - the D-011
 * resume-anchoring rule depends on this).
 */
export declare const tokenize: (command: string) => string[];
/** The final path segment of a command word, without importing node:path -
 * argv[0] arrives as `claude`, `/usr/local/bin/claude`, or similar. */
export declare const basenameOf: (word: string) => string;
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