export type WorktreeSeedSourceDiagnostic = {
    configPath?: unknown;
    instanceId?: unknown;
};
export type CanonicalWorktreeSeedSource = {
    baseWorkspaceCwd: string | null;
    configPath: string;
    instanceId: string;
    targetConfigPath: string;
    targetInstanceId: string;
};
export type RegisteredWorktreeSeedSourceInput = {
    registeredBaseWorkspaceCwd?: string | null;
    explicitSourceConfigPath?: string | null;
    targetConfigPath: string;
    expectedTargetInstanceId: string;
};
/**
 * Whether a base project workspace declares an instance config of its own.
 *
 * This tests directory entries and does not follow them. A dangling or aliased symlink,
 * at the config itself or at the `.paperclip` directory holding it, still counts as a
 * declared config, so the resolver rejects the malformed source instead of falling back
 * to another one.
 */
export declare function baseWorkspaceDeclaresInstanceConfig(baseWorkspaceCwd: string): boolean;
/** Resolve the authoritative source and target identities without consulting diagnostics. */
export declare function resolveRegisteredWorktreeSeedSource(input: RegisteredWorktreeSeedSourceInput): CanonicalWorktreeSeedSource;
/**
 * Resolve a worktree seed source without granting authority to the seed manifest.
 *
 * A managed caller supplies the project-workspace cwd from its server-owned row.
 * An operator may instead supply an explicit source config. A base workspace that
 * carries its own `.paperclip/config.json` stays authoritative, so an explicit path
 * must equal it; a base workspace that is a plain checkout has none, and the explicit
 * path supplies the source. Manifest source fields are diagnostic assertions only and
 * never select the returned source.
 */
export declare function resolveCanonicalWorktreeSeedSource(input: RegisteredWorktreeSeedSourceInput & {
    manifestSource: WorktreeSeedSourceDiagnostic | null | undefined;
    manifestTargetInstanceId?: unknown;
}): CanonicalWorktreeSeedSource;
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