import type { IVerdictCoverage } from './verdict-coverage.js';
/**
 * A rule's status after its coverage has been compared to its request — THE
 * derivation of `partial`, shared by every surface that reports one rule.
 *
 * A rule its producer reported `passed` whose coverage has a shortfall found
 * nothing wrong in what it examined and did not examine everything it was
 * asked to: it is `partial`, never `passed`. Every other status is returned
 * unchanged — a failure found in a partial scope is still a failure, and a
 * skipped or errored rule already says it proved nothing.
 *
 * The CLI's gate-envelope builder and the wiring explain engine both call this,
 * so `gates check` and `gates explain` cannot disagree about the same rule —
 * the two-authorities shape round 11 closed. It lives in core so an engine
 * below the CLI (e.g. `@shrkcrft/boundaries`) can apply the same rule.
 */
export declare function settleRuleStatus<S extends string>(status: S, coverage: IVerdictCoverage): S | 'partial';
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