import type { HandoffCandidate } from '@manehorizons/cadence-types';
export interface HandoffMeta {
    generatedAt: string | null;
    label: string | null;
    loopPosition: string | null;
    activePhase: string | null;
    gitBranch: string | null;
    tier: string | null;
}
export declare function parseHandoffMeta(content: string): HandoffMeta;
/**
 * Best-effort cross-worktree handoff discovery: the local worktree's freshest
 * handoff doc plus every sibling worktree's freshest doc, ranked newest-first
 * by `generatedAt`. Never throws — any per-worktree failure (missing/corrupt
 * state, no handoff dir, a vanished ghost worktree entry) just drops that
 * worktree from the result.
 */
export declare function gatherHandoffCandidates(repoRoot: string): Promise<HandoffCandidate[]>;
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