/**
 * Config gate for the Nx infrastructure validators.
 *
 * Every other rule in the system (eslint rules, code-rules, ai-hook rules, validate-ts-in-src) can be
 * turned off or time-boxed from webpieces.config.json. The five infrastructure executors
 * (validate-architecture-unchanged, validate-no-architecture-cycles, validate-packagejson,
 * validate-versions-locked, validate-eslint-sync) hardcoded their behavior instead, which made them
 * the only checks a consuming repo could not adopt gradually. This gate gives them the same
 * semantics, from the same source of truth (`loadAndValidate` → webpieces.config.json).
 *
 * Semantics:
 *  - rule entry ABSENT (or no webpieces.config.json at all) → RUN. Fail-safe: an older config, or a
 *    repo that has not adopted the keys yet, behaves exactly as it did before this gate existed.
 *  - `"mode": "OFF"` → skip with a reason.
 *  - the time-box / branch escape hatches (turnOffRuleUntilEpoch / turnOffRuleWhileOnBranch) → honored
 *    when the caller passes `honorEpoch: true`. All five executors now pass true: a schedule ("do not
 *    enforce until <epoch> / off <branch>") is coherent for any of them, baseline or not (see the
 *    comment block above ValidateArchitectureUnchangedConfig in rules-config/src/rule-configs.ts). The
 *    param is retained so a future caller can still opt a rule out of time-boxing.
 */
export declare class RuleGate {
    /**
     * @param workspaceRoot the Nx `context.root` — where webpieces.config.json is looked up from.
     * @param ruleName the webpieces.config.json key, identical to the Nx target name.
     * @param honorEpoch true to honor the time-box/branch escape hatches (all five executors pass true).
     * @returns a human-readable reason when the executor must SKIP, or null when it must RUN.
     */
    skipReason(workspaceRoot: string, ruleName: string, honorEpoch: boolean): string | null;
    /**
     * Convenience wrapper: prints the standard skip line and reports whether the caller should stop.
     * Keeps the four-line preamble identical across all five executors.
     */
    isDisabled(workspaceRoot: string, ruleName: string, honorEpoch: boolean): boolean;
}