import { type ProjectConfig } from "./schema.js";
export declare const CONFIG_RELATIVE_PATH: string;
/**
 * Walk up from `startDir` looking for `.jira-agent/project.yaml`.
 * Returns undefined when the project has no JAM config at all.
 */
export declare function findConfigPath(startDir?: string): string | undefined;
export type LoadedConfig = {
    config: ProjectConfig;
    /** Undefined when defaults were used because no file was found. */
    path?: string;
};
/**
 * A missing config file is not fatal - JAM falls back to schema defaults so a
 * bare `jam serve` still works. A malformed one IS fatal: silently running
 * with the wrong field policy is worse than refusing to start.
 */
export declare function loadConfig(startDir?: string): LoadedConfig;