/**
 * Normalize an argv into `verb --flag=<v> <v>` form — the key a retry cluster
 * groups on. Two calls that differ only in their values share a skeleton, which
 * is what makes "the caller ran the same thing four times" detectable.
 */
export declare function skeleton(args: string[]): string;
/**
 * The dispatched verb — the first bare token, skipping flags AND the values they
 * consume. `vincentt --dir /tmp publish` runs publish, not `/tmp`; recording the
 * path as the verb would both mis-bucket the run and leak the directory.
 */
export declare function verbOf(args: string[]): string;