/** What a local model takes and returns. The kind decides which server
 *  script runs it, which route serves it, and which stdlib function calls
 *  it. What a model is good for (coding, reasoning, illustration) is not a
 *  kind; that is a tag on its catalog entry. */
export type ModelKind = "chat" | "embedding" | "speech" | "image" | "vision" | "controlnet";
/** In the order `list` shows them. */
export declare const MODEL_KINDS: ModelKind[];
/** The class a diffusers ControlNet directory names in its config.json. A
 *  ControlNet is not served: an image server loads it from
 *  `client.controlnetsDir` when a request names it. */
export declare const CONTROLNET_CLASS = "ControlNetModel";
export declare function isModelKind(value: unknown): value is ModelKind;
/** What TypeScript knows about a vision family the server runs through
 *  transformers. `tryIt` is the std::vision function the serve banner
 *  suggests trying first: one the family answers. */
export type VisionFamily = {
    tryIt: "tagImage" | "detectObjects" | "embedImage";
};
/** The vision families the server runs through transformers, keyed by the
 *  first of `architectures` in their config.json. The keys are copied from
 *  `FAMILIES` in `lib/cli/visionRules.py`, and a test checks the two agree.
 *  The ONNX tagger family has no config and is known by its files
 *  instead. */
export declare const VISION_FAMILIES: Record<string, VisionFamily>;
export declare const VISION_ARCHITECTURES: string[];
/** The two files that mark the WD14 tagger family. */
export declare const VISION_ONNX_FILES: string[];
/** What is in a model directory, read once for every rule. A missing file,
 *  or one that is not JSON, is null. `modelDirKind.ts` reads them. */
export type DirFacts = {
    names: string[];
    config: Record<string, unknown> | null;
    diffusers: boolean;
};
export declare function architecture(config: Record<string, unknown> | null): string;
/** What kind of model a directory holds, from what is in it, or null when
 *  no rule matches. This is the one place a kind is decided from files:
 *  `serve`, `list`, and `download` all come here, through
 *  `kindOfModelDir` in `modelDirKind.ts`. A `.gguf` file's parent
 *  directory counts as holding a chat model. */
export declare function kindOfFacts(facts: DirFacts): ModelKind | null;
/** Architectures validated for chat with images through serve --vlm. */
export declare const VLM_ARCHITECTURES: string[];