/** Safe, format-neutral primitives for Monomind-managed configuration content. */
export interface SafeJsonResult {
    content: string;
    diagnostics: readonly string[];
}
type MarkerComment = '#' | '//';
/**
 * Adds or replaces one managed marker block. Blocks for other artifacts and
 * platforms are deliberately left untouched.
 */
export declare function mergeManagedBlock(existing: string, marker: string, content: string, comment?: MarkerComment): string;
/** Removes exactly one artifact/platform block, leaving all other content unchanged. */
export declare function removeManagedBlock(content: string, artifact: string, platform: string): string;
/** Removes a block by its full marker for artifacts with qualified names. */
export declare function removeManagedMarker(content: string, marker: string): string;
/**
 * SKILL.md requires YAML frontmatter to be its first bytes. Keep it outside
 * the managed marker and replace only Monomind's body block. A same-name file
 * may contain user guidance around the block; a different-name file is foreign
 * and is never overwritten by an adapter install.
 */
export declare function mergeSkillManagedBlock(existing: string, marker: string, rendered: string): SafeJsonResult;
/** Merges a named JSON object entry, leaving malformed input unmodified. */
export declare function safeJsonMerge(content: string, path: readonly string[], entry: unknown): SafeJsonResult;
/** Convenience form for callers that do not need malformed-input diagnostics. */
export declare function mergeNamedEntry(content: string, path: readonly string[], entry: unknown): string;
/** Removes a named JSON object entry, leaving malformed input unmodified. */
export declare function safeJsonRemove(content: string, path: readonly string[], name: string): SafeJsonResult;
/** Convenience form for callers that do not need malformed-input diagnostics. */
export declare function removeNamedEntry(content: string, path: readonly string[], name: string): string;
export {};
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