/** Compact consecutive Node TAP records without discarding a value.
 * Every failure keeps its own row; only byte-identical diagnostics share a template.
 */
import type { CompressionResult, Stamp } from './types.js';
export declare function looksLikeTap(text: string): boolean;
/**
 * THE ENVELOPE CARRIES AN AUTHENTICATOR, for the reason the `[... ` families
 * do: without one, a `[TAP ok records: ...]` line that arrived in the content
 * reached `rehydrate` as an `unconsumed marker` and cost the caller the whole
 * block. Handed nothing, this mints its own and returns it on the result.
 */
export declare function compressTap(text: string, stamp?: Stamp): CompressionResult;
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