import type { MetaData, MetaObject } from "@metaobjectsdev/metadata";
/**
 * True when `entity` is abstract (`@isAbstract: true`).
 *
 * Thin, framework-level accessor so generators in sibling codegen packages
 * have a single import surface for the abstract concept and don't reach into
 * metadata internals (mirrors how `isProjection` is the shared read-only
 * discriminator). Abstract types contribute shape via inheritance only.
 */
export declare function isAbstract(entity: MetaData): boolean;
/**
 * True when `entity` should produce INSTANCE artifacts of ANY kind (read OR
 * write): CRUD/read hooks, grid columns, grid hooks. Excludes abstract types
 * (no instantiable representation) and sourceless objects (no route for the
 * artifact to talk to — see the header note, and #248 for the doctrine).
 *
 * Read-capable generators (tanstack hooks/grids) compose this so they skip
 * abstract bases while still serving VIEW-BACKED projections via their own
 * `isProjection` read-only branch — a projection over a `@kind: view` source
 * has a source, so it passes here and keeps its read-only hooks.
 */
export declare function emitsInstanceArtifacts(entity: MetaObject): boolean;
/**
 * True when `entity` should produce WRITE artifacts (write forms, mutation
 * surfaces). Excludes abstract types (no instance at all), projections
 * (read-only views — instantiable for read, never for write), and objects with
 * no WRITABLE source (nothing to submit to; this is the same predicate the
 * entity-file generator uses to decide whether an `Insert`/`Update` surface
 * exists at all, so a form can no longer be emitted against schemas that were
 * never generated).
 *
 * WRITE-only generators (e.g. the React form generator) compose this.
 */
export declare function emitsWriteArtifacts(entity: MetaObject): boolean;
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