export interface CandidateAuditResult {
    status: 'ok' | 'degraded' | 'error';
    consumedCount: number;
    orphanCandidateCount: number;
    missingLedgerCount: number;
    /**
     * Consumed candidates resolved into an EXISTING principle via
     * `reuseEvidence` (not missing — by-design zero ledger growth).
     */
    reusedResolvedCount?: number;
    /**
     * Consumed candidates whose `recommendation_kind` never targets the
     * Principle Ledger (not missing — by-design no ledger entry).
     */
    nonLedgerKindCount?: number;
    /** The true-missing candidate ids (principle-kind, consumed, no resolution). */
    missingLedgerEntryIds?: string[];
    /**
     * When status='error': bounded description of the underlying failure
     * (e.g. a stale-schema SQLite error such as a missing column), so
     * operators see WHY state could not be read instead of a generic
     * refusal (rc-3 fail-loud, rc-8 bounded).
     */
    reason?: string;
}
export declare function auditCandidateLedgerConsistency(workspaceDir: string): Promise<CandidateAuditResult>;
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