import type { IUnitMark } from '../liveness/i-unit-mark.js';
import type { AppErrorImpl } from '../result/errors.js';
import { type Result } from '../result/result.js';
/**
 * ONE rule-level markable list of a gate rule — a policy / doc-reference
 * rule's `files`, a generated rule's `generatedGlob`, a baseline's
 * `watchFiles` — through core's one parser (round 13): the list becomes the
 * plain units, each `{ pattern, expectEmpty: true }` entry a mark (`list:
 * field`) merged into the rule's `expectEmptyUnits`.
 *
 * THE normaliser for these lists: the config loader and the pack merge seam
 * reach it through `normalizePlaneRule`, and the plane engines
 * (`runPolicyLint` / `evaluatePolicy`, `checkDocReferences`, the generated
 * scan) call it at entry. IDEMPOTENT and identity-preserving: a rule whose
 * list is already plain strings comes back as the SAME object, so an engine's
 * per-rule memo still hits. An absent list is left absent.
 */
export declare function normalizeRuleList<T extends {
    readonly expectEmptyUnits?: readonly IUnitMark[];
}>(rule: T, field: keyof T & string): Result<T, AppErrorImpl>;
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