import type { CommandResult } from './types.js';
export type BinRef = {
    bin: string;
    package: string;
};
export declare const manifestOf: (dir: string) => {
    bin?: Record<string, string> | string;
    version?: string;
};
/** So a globally installed CLI reaches its own copies. */
export declare const SELF: string;
export declare const UNKNOWN_VERSION = "an unknown version";
type Found = {
    note: string;
    path: string;
};
/** Falling back to the CLI's bundled bin over a repo pinning another is declared != loaded one level up; it still beats refusing, so it is printed. */
export declare const findBin: (cwd: string, ref: BinRef) => Found;
export type BinStreams = {
    exitCode: number;
    notice: string;
    stderr: string;
    stdout: string;
};
export declare const spawnBin: (cwd: string, ref: BinRef, args: readonly string[]) => BinStreams;
/** stdout and stderr are joined: a caller reading one misses the refusal written to the other. */
export declare const runBin: (cwd: string, ref: BinRef, args: readonly string[]) => Promise<CommandResult>;
export {};