import type { ObservationProfile } from '@variance-authority/core/format';
import type { StyleIndex } from './css.js';
/**
 * What the ancestors contribute, and why a subject cannot be read without them.
 *
 * A subject is a subtree, and a subtree is not self-contained: `color` reaches in
 * from an ancestor that is not part of it, and `:root` declares the design tokens
 * every value inside it resolves through. Applicability pruning correctly drops
 * the rules that declare those, because they match nothing *inside* the subject —
 * so the values have to arrive some other way, and this file is that way.
 *
 * Split out of `collect.ts` because it is the only part of collection that looks
 * *outward* from the subject, and because it fails differently: everything else
 * there is wrong when it reads the subject wrongly, and this is wrong when it
 * reads nothing at all — which is exactly what it did, silently, until the token
 * band was found inert under JSDOM.
 */
/**
 * Inherited values in force at the subject root.
 *
 * Mandatory, not an optimization (ADR-0003). Applicability pruning drops every
 * rule matching nothing inside the subtree — including rules on ancestors
 * *outside* it whose inheritable properties still reach in. Without this seed
 * the cheap tier reports false `unchanged`.
 *
 * Under a profile without computed style there is no way to read the ancestors'
 * resolved values, so the seed is empty and the tier is correspondingly weaker.
 * That is reported by the profile, not papered over here.
 */
export declare function inheritedSeed(root: Element, profile: ObservationProfile, view: Window | null, index: StyleIndex): Record<string, string>;
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