/**
 * Charter Sentinel Detection — prevents charter from re-ingesting its own output.
 *
 * Charter-managed blocks are delimited by HTML comment sentinels:
 *   <!-- charter:<name>:start --> ... <!-- charter:<name>:end -->
 *
 * These blocks must be excluded from classification, keyword scanning, and
 * bloat detection so that migrate/tidy/doctor don't treat charter's own
 * rendered output as user-authored content.
 */
/**
 * Strip all charter-managed sentinel blocks from content.
 *
 * Removes everything between matching `<!-- charter:*:start -->` and
 * `<!-- charter:*:end -->` comment pairs, inclusive of the sentinel lines.
 * Unmatched start sentinels strip to EOF. Handles multiple blocks.
 */
export declare function stripCharterSentinels(content: string): string;
/**
 * Test whether a line is a charter sentinel marker (start or end).
 */
export declare function isCharterSentinel(line: string): boolean;
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