/**
 * Begins a private observation identity for an actual owned native call.
 *
 * An unset marker disables IO. The absolute scratch root and process nonce are
 * fixed across calls. Events retain actual results and honest call bounds; sink
 * failures never change product bytes/errors or write protocol streams. The
 * coordinator detects missing/corrupt evidence and owns file retention. Each
 * append closes its own descriptor and output is capped at 256 MiB for this
 * writer. This helper does not count delegate calls as process starts.
 *
 * @evidence contracts/common.md#principled-implementation A process nonce, per-call ordinal and event sequence correlate actual owner observations in the shared private schema without modifying product requests.
 * @evidence contracts/common.md#clear-and-simple-design One private writer owns event encoding, the retained byte budget and closed appends; callers provide actual primitive results.
 * @evidence contracts/common.md#prohibited-implementation-shortcuts The issue-defined opt-in uses supported native APIs without foreign mutation, expected-output generation or consumer special cases.
 * @evidence contracts/common.md#meaningful-documentation Native prose states disabled IO, failure effects, root lifetime, per-write closure and the distinction between observation and inferred starts.
 */
export declare function beginLintTrace(): {
    record: (event: string, data: Record<string, unknown>) => void;
} | undefined;