import type { Provider } from "./provider.js";
import { type RenderFormat } from "./escapers.js";
import { type PayloadField } from "./verify.js";
export interface RenderOptions {
    /** Inline template text. Mutually exclusive with `ref`. */
    template?: string;
    /** A `group/source` reference resolved via `provider`. */
    ref?: string;
    /** The render payload (a plain object/array graph; pre-format primitives). */
    payload: unknown;
    provider: Provider;
    /** Output format; drives escaping. Defaults to "text" (raw). */
    format?: RenderFormat;
    /**
     * Fail-closed guard for dynamic/generated text: when given a payload field
     * tree, the RESOLVED template is `verify`'d before rendering and a drifted
     * variant throws — instead of silently rendering nothing.
     */
    verify?: PayloadField[];
    /**
     * Output budget in characters. Rendered length is data-dependent (only knowable
     * after rendering), so this is a render-time guard: a result longer than
     * `maxChars` throws. (Token budgets are out of scope — model-specific tokenizer.)
     */
    maxChars?: number;
}
/** Deterministic, logic-less render: (template + payload + provider) → string. */
export declare function render(o: RenderOptions): string;
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