/**
 * manager-category-io.ts, whole-category patch/remove persistence.
 *
 * Split out of manager.ts (line cap). These two operations exist for the config
 * fields that cannot be expressed as a scalar dot-path (arrays, open maps), and
 * they have to respect key ownership for the same reason `set` does: a category
 * patch that wrote `surfaces.*` into a surface silo would re-create exactly the
 * duplication the daemon config migration removes.
 */
export interface CategoryIoDeps {
    readonly configPath: string;
    readonly daemonTierPath: string | null;
    readonly writeRawGlobal: (raw: Record<string, unknown>) => void;
    readonly markDaemonKey: (key: string, present: boolean) => void;
}
/**
 * Shallow-merge `patch` into the on-disk representation of `categoryName`.
 * Daemon-owned leaves are routed to the daemon store instead of the surface
 * file. Returns nothing; the caller has already updated the live config.
 */
export declare function persistCategoryPatch(categoryName: string, patch: Record<string, unknown>, live: Record<string, unknown>, deps: CategoryIoDeps): void;
/** Remove one key from a category's on-disk representation (or the daemon store). */
export declare function persistCategoryKeyRemoval(categoryName: string, key: string, deps: CategoryIoDeps): void;
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