import { type GraphAutoRefreshController, type WatchLogger } from './watch.js';
export interface BackgroundAutoRefreshOptions {
    noHtml?: boolean;
    logger?: WatchLogger;
}
export interface BackgroundAutoRefreshDependencies {
    /** Internal test seam; production resolves the compiled sibling watch.js. */
    watchModuleUrl?: URL;
}
/**
 * Runs the synchronous graph reconciliation/watch loop away from the MCP
 * transport thread. The stdio server can therefore finish initialization and
 * answer control requests while watcher-state.json keeps graph reads fail-closed.
 */
export declare function startGraphAutoRefreshInBackground(watchPath: string, debounceSeconds?: number, options?: BackgroundAutoRefreshOptions, dependencies?: BackgroundAutoRefreshDependencies): GraphAutoRefreshController;