import type { MEMOConfig } from '@memoarchitect/tools';
export interface ConfigChainEntry {
    configPath: string;
    config: MEMOConfig;
}
/** Load application settings from a file. No inheritance is applied. */
export declare function loadAndResolveConfig(configPath: string): MEMOConfig;
/**
 * The settings "chain", which is now always a single entry.
 *
 * Kept so the lock generator's shape is unchanged while it moves to the native
 * resolution: what a project depends on is decided by its imports, and a lock
 * records the artifacts those imports resolved to.
 */
export declare function loadConfigChain(configPath: string): ConfigChainEntry[];
/** The directory a settings file governs. */
export declare function configDir(configPath: string): string;
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