/**
 * Turns what the machine found into a refusal the caller can act on
 *
 * A refusal that only says "no" gets worked around; a refusal that asks "are
 * you sure" gets answered without reading. This one says what stands behind
 * the target — name, age, what it is carrying — because that is the thing the
 * caller did not know when writing the command.
 *
 * Going ahead means naming the targets, and the names are checked against
 * what the command actually reaches. A confirmation that names something else
 * is refused too: it says the caller and the machine disagree about the target.
 */
import type { PreviewedTarget, StrikePreview } from './strike-preview-parse.js';
/** Confirmation that carries the names, not just the intent */
export declare const KILL_MARKER = "# CONFIRMED-KILL:";
/** The name the caller would write in the confirmation */
export declare function nameOf(target: PreviewedTarget): string;
/**
 * The same pattern, rewritten so it no longer matches the command carrying it.
 *
 * One character becomes a class of itself: `relay` reads as `[r]elay`, which
 * still matches `relay` in the target but not the literal `[r]elay` written
 * here. Null when the first character cannot stand inside a class.
 */
export declare function shieldPattern(pattern: string | null): string | null;
/** The names a confirmation carries, or null when there is no confirmation */
export declare function readConfirmedNames(command: string): string[] | null;
/**
 * Judge what came back from the machine.
 *
 * Returns the refusal, or null when every strike named its targets and the
 * names match. Three ways to fail are kept apart on purpose: nothing could be
 * asked, the expansion reached nothing, and the expansion reached something
 * the caller did not name.
 */
export declare function judgeStrikes(previews: StrikePreview[], confirmed: string[] | null): string | null;