export declare const RECORDED_INSTRUCTIONS_TEMPLATE = "# INSTRUCTIONS.md\n\n<!--\nMaintained by clai. Standing instructions clai captured from you during sessions\nin this project, kept here so they survive context compaction. Edit or delete any\nline freely; write your own long-lived rules in CLAI.md instead.\n-->\n\n## Active\n\n";
export interface RecordInstructionsInput {
    readonly cwd: string;
    readonly projectRoot?: string | undefined;
    readonly add?: readonly string[] | undefined;
    readonly remove?: readonly string[] | undefined;
}
export interface RecordInstructionsResult {
    readonly path: string;
    readonly active: readonly string[];
    readonly added: readonly string[];
    readonly removed: readonly string[];
    readonly dropped: number;
}
export declare function normalizeInstructionEntry(raw: string): string | undefined;
export declare function parseRecordedInstructions(text: string): {
    readonly preamble: string;
    readonly active: string[];
    readonly trailing: string;
};
export declare function recordInstructions(input: RecordInstructionsInput): Promise<RecordInstructionsResult | undefined>;
export declare function recordedInstructionsDirName(): string;