import yargs from 'yargs';
import type { Command } from './command';
import type { GroupsType } from './command-groups';
import type { OnCommandStartSlot } from './cli.main.runtime';
import type { CommandRunner } from './command-runner';
export declare class CLIParser {
    private commands;
    private groups;
    private onCommandStartSlot;
    parser: yargs.Argv<{}>;
    private yargsCommands;
    constructor(commands: Command[], groups: GroupsType, onCommandStartSlot: OnCommandStartSlot);
    parse(args?: string[]): Promise<CommandRunner>;
    private addYargsCommand;
    private setHelpMiddleware;
    private handleCommandFailure;
    private configureCompletion;
    private printHelp;
    private configureParser;
    private parseCommandWithSubCommands;
    private getYargsCommand;
    private configureGlobalFlags;
    private throwForNonExistsCommand;
    /**
     * manipulate the command help output. there is no API from Yarn to do any of this, so it needs to be done manually.
     * see https://github.com/yargs/yargs/issues/1956
     *
     * the original order of the output:
     * description
     * Options
     * Commands
     * Global
     * Positionals
     * Examples
     */
    private logCommandHelp;
}
export declare function findCommandByArgv(commands: Command[]): Command | undefined;