/**
 * Token-budgeted span expansion (docs/hybrid-retrieval-design.md, step 5 of
 * the shipping order).
 *
 * Retrieval works on chunk ids; only here — after fusion — are line windows
 * read from disk. Every candidate gets a compact `path:start-end [sources]`
 * header; snippets are added top-down until the budget runs out, so the model
 * always sees the full ranked list but never an unbounded dump.
 */
import type { FusedCandidate } from "./types.js";
export interface AssembleOptions {
    cwd: string;
    /** Approximate token budget for the whole result text. */
    tokenBudget?: number;
}
export interface AssembledContext {
    text: string;
    /** How many candidates got an inline snippet (the rest are bare headers). */
    snippetCount: number;
}
export declare function assembleContext(candidates: readonly FusedCandidate[], options: AssembleOptions): AssembledContext;
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