/**
 * `openConsole` — what bare `aidlc` and `aidlc menu` open (aidlc-console/AC-1,
 * aidlc-console/AC-2, aidlc-console/AC-3).
 *
 * Off a terminal it keeps the old menu's fallbacks exactly: help on stderr for
 * bare `aidlc`, a one-line diagnostic for `aidlc menu`, exit 1 for both.
 *
 * @module
 */
import type { Command } from 'commander';
import { type Prompter } from '../core/prompt.js';
import { type MenuMode } from '../menu/index.js';
/**
 * The required positionals `argv` leaves out (aidlc-console/AC-14), or null when
 * its first word is not a command (aidlc-console/AC-16). Words after the leaf that
 * do not start with `-` count as given positionals; an option's value counts too,
 * which can only under-ask, never ask for something already typed.
 */
export declare function missingArgs(program: Command, argv: readonly string[]): string[] | null;
/**
 * Run `aidlc <argv>` through a throwaway program (menu/dispatch.ts). False when
 * commander refused it or the command set a non-zero exit code; the code is then
 * cleared so leaving the console exits 0 (aidlc-console/AC-16).
 */
export declare function runCommand(makeProgram: () => Command, argv: readonly string[]): Promise<boolean>;
/**
 * Which console a terminal of this size gets: the operator dashboard from 60 × 20,
 * the one-column Stream below it (operator-console/AC-1, operator-console/AC-3).
 */
export declare function consoleKind(size: {
    columns?: number;
    rows?: number;
}): 'operator' | 'stream';
/** Colour for the dashboard: the watch view's test, and not on a `dumb` terminal (design D-6). */
export declare function dashboardColour(tty: boolean, env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): boolean;
/** Open the console, or print the non-interactive fallback (aidlc-console/AC-1..AC-3). */
export declare function openConsole(makeProgram: () => Command, mode?: MenuMode, prompter?: Prompter): Promise<void>;
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