export interface StageArguments {
    readonly repoRoot: string;
    readonly stageRoot: string;
}
export declare const packageReadmeNames: readonly ["README.md", "README.ru.md", "README.cs.md", "README.fr.md"];
export interface StageDependencies {
    readonly afterSourcePinned?: (sourcePath: string) => Promise<void>;
    readonly afterSnapshot?: () => Promise<void>;
    readonly includeCompilerSources?: boolean;
}
export declare function parseStageArguments(args: readonly string[]): StageArguments;
/**
 * Build a fail-closed npm staging tree. The returned paths are package-relative,
 * sorted, and contain no client or machine-local state.
 */
export declare function stageAssets(repoRoot: string, stageRoot: string, dependencies?: StageDependencies): Promise<string[]>;