import type { Locator, Page } from '@playwright/test';
import { type AccessibilitySnapshot } from '@variance-authority/core/format';
import { type Acquired, type AcquireRequest } from './page-agent.js';
/**
 * Acquire semantic material and the browser-native accessibility roots together.
 *
 * `captured` runs the moment the page agent's document arrives, before the
 * accessibility roots are read: anything it reads is what held when the
 * document was taken, not what was said while the roots were still awaited.
 *
 * The pointer leaves the page first when the recipe holds `no-hover`, on every
 * acquisition, because a test or the in-place path may move it between two.
 * The clock and the motion preference have to be set before the page loads,
 * which is before this helper is called: `request.driven` names the ones the
 * `variance` fixture set, and this adds the pointer to them.
 */
export declare function acquireFrom(page: Page, locator: Locator, request: AcquireRequest, captured?: () => void): Promise<Acquired & {
    readonly accessibility: AccessibilitySnapshot;
}>;
/**
 * Start the page agent recording changes to the subject, for the next
 * `acquireFrom` to report as `mutated`.
 *
 * A separate call from the read before it leaves no gap a screenshot can fall
 * into: a state photographed after this call and gone by the next read was left
 * after this call, and leaving it is a change the watch records.
 */
export declare function watchFrom(locator: Locator): Promise<void>;
/** Stop a watch `acquireFrom` did not take, on a page that is still open. */
export declare function unwatchFrom(page: Page): Promise<void>;
/**
 * Give focus back to what every acquisition since the last call took it from,
 * once the observation is done with the page. See the page agent's `refocus`.
 */
export declare function refocusAfter(page: Page): Promise<void>;
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