/**
 * Get the three-letter display prefix for an element kind. Multi-word type
 * names intentionally use one shared family (OperationalWorkflow → OPR),
 * leaving the numeric sequence to provide uniqueness.
 */
export declare function kindToPrefix(kind: string): string;
/**
 * The URL family segment — first hyphen-separated token of the prefix.
 * e.g. "REQ" → "REQ", "HZD" → "HZD", "OPR" → "OPR"
 */
export declare function prefixToFamily(prefix: string): string;
/**
 * Assign sequential short IDs to a group of elements sharing one prefix.
 *
 * A short ID is a traceability handle: once an element has one it keeps it, and
 * a number belonging to a deleted element is never handed to a different one.
 * So assignment is MONOTONIC, not positional — a new element takes the next
 * free number, and neither adding nor deleting renumbers anything that already
 * had an ID.
 *
 * `prior` carries the assignments made on earlier runs, including entries for
 * elements that have since been deleted: those set the high-water mark and are
 * what stops a retired number being reused. Called without it, every element is
 * new and numbering starts at 1.
 *
 * This function used to sort lexicographically and number by position, which
 * renumbered on every insert — `bravo` moved REQ-1 → REQ-2 the moment an
 * `alpha` appeared, and deleting shifted the survivors back. The doc comment
 * already claimed the behaviour implemented here; the code did not match it,
 * and MCP, the LLM tools and the constraint evaluator were all reading the
 * unstable value.
 *
 * There is no renumbering, by design. Numbers only ever go up and gaps are
 * expected — a gap is the record that something was deleted, and closing it
 * would repoint every external reference to the numbers above it.
 *
 * Format: {PREFIX}-{n}  e.g. "HZD-1", "HZD-2", "OPR-1", "OPR-2"
 *
 * Returns a Map from element id → shortId.
 */
export declare function assignSequentialShortIds(prefix: string, elementIds: string[], prior?: ReadonlyMap<string, string> | Record<string, string>): Map<string, string>;
/**
 * Parse a shortId back to its prefix and sequence number.
 * e.g. "OPR-3" → { prefix: "OPR", seq: 3 }
 * Returns null if the format is unrecognised.
 */
export declare function parseShortId(shortId: string): {
    prefix: string;
    seq: number;
} | null;
//# sourceMappingURL=short-id.d.ts.map