import { z } from "zod";
/** Non-blank ast-grep syntax (patterns, kinds, metavariable names). */
export declare const syntax: z.ZodString;
export interface AstGrepRule {
    pattern?: string | {
        context: string;
        selector?: string | undefined;
        strictness?: string | undefined;
    } | undefined;
    kind?: string | undefined;
    regex?: string | undefined;
    inside?: AstGrepRule | undefined;
    has?: AstGrepRule | undefined;
    precedes?: AstGrepRule | undefined;
    follows?: AstGrepRule | undefined;
    all?: AstGrepRule[] | undefined;
    any?: AstGrepRule[] | undefined;
    not?: AstGrepRule | undefined;
    matches?: string | undefined;
    stopBy?: "neighbor" | "end" | AstGrepRule | undefined;
}
/** An ast-grep rule object, shared by astSearch `match` and astRewrite. */
export declare const AstGrepRuleSchema: z.ZodType<AstGrepRule>;
/** A rule-file object: the YAML rule file's `{rule: …}` as JSON. */
export declare const AstRuleFileSchema: z.ZodObject<{
    rule: z.ZodType<AstGrepRule, unknown, z.core.$ZodTypeInternals<AstGrepRule, unknown>>;
}, z.core.$strict>;
/**
 * A rule as ast-grep YAML text (a bare rule or a rule file with `rule:`), as
 * the equivalent bare rule object, or as the rule-file object (`ruleFile`,
 * default `{rule}`); every form selects the same nodes.
 */
export declare function astRuleInput(description: string, ruleFile?: z.ZodTypeAny): z.ZodUnion<readonly [z.ZodString, z.ZodType<AstGrepRule, unknown, z.core.$ZodTypeInternals<AstGrepRule, unknown>>, z.ZodTypeAny<unknown, unknown, z.core.$ZodTypeInternals<unknown, unknown>>]>;