/**
 * Parses acceptance criteria from issue markdown and verifier checklists.
 *
 * An issue's acceptance criteria live in its markdown as a checkbox list under
 * the "## Acceptance criteria" heading. A verifier step is instructed to emit
 * its per-criterion results as a similar checklist (optionally after a
 * "CRITERIA:" marker), citing evidence for each.
 *
 * Pure (no I/O) so it is unit-tested directly.
 */
export interface AcceptanceCriterion {
    text: string;
    checked: boolean;
}
export declare function parseAcceptanceCriteria(markdown: string): AcceptanceCriterion[];
/**
 * Like parseAcceptanceCriteria, but also reports whether an "## Acceptance
 * criteria" heading was PRESENT at all. The done-gate needs this to tell a
 * trivial ticket (no section → weak gate) apart from a malformed one (section
 * present but zero parsed criteria → needs-human).
 */
export declare function parseAcceptanceSection(markdown: string): {
    criteria: AcceptanceCriterion[];
    sectionPresent: boolean;
};
export declare function markAllCriteriaChecked(markdown: string): string;
export declare function parseCriteriaChecklist(text: string): AcceptanceCriterion[];