export declare type Info = Record<string | number | symbol, unknown>;
export interface Options {
    /**
     * Specifies arbitrary informational properties that are available through the
     * `ContextualError.info(err)` static class method. See that method for details.
     */
    info?: Info;
    /**
     * Describes what kind of error this is.
     * This is intended for programmatic use to distinguish between different kinds of errors.
     * Note that in modern versions of Node.js, this name is ignored in the stack property value,
     * but callers can still use the name property to get at it.
     */
    name?: string;
    /**
     * Prevent extending of message with cause chain.
     */
    skipCauseMessage?: boolean;
    /**
     * If specified, then the stack trace for this error ends at function `constructorOpt`.
     * Functions called by `constructorOpt` will not show up in the stack.
     * This is useful when this class is subclassed.
     */
    constructorOpt?: Function;
}
export declare const CERROR_SYMBOL: unique symbol;
export declare class CError extends Error {
    readonly name: string;
    readonly message: string;
    readonly info: Info;
    /**
     * For debugging, we keep track of the original short message (attached
     * to this Error particularly) separately from the complete message,
     * which includes the messages of our cause chain.
     */
    readonly shortMessage: string;
    /**
     * Indicates that the new error was caused by some other error
     */
    private readonly cause?;
    constructor(message?: string, cause?: Error, options?: Options);
    toString(): string;
    toJSON(): Record<string, string | unknown>;
    static isCError(obj: unknown): obj is CError;
    static cause(err: CError | Error): CError | Error | null;
    static info(err: CError | Error): Info;
    /**
     * Returns a string containing the full stack trace, with all nested errors recursively reported as 'caused by:' + err.stack.
     */
    static fullStack(err: CError | Error): string;
    static findCauseByName(err: CError | Error, name: string): CError | Error | null;
    static hasCauseWithName(err: CError | Error, name: string): boolean;
}
export default CError;