/**
 * core/env.ts — read ~/.aibroker/env into the process environment.
 *
 * A launchd-managed daemon inherits almost nothing, so credentials cannot live
 * in a shell profile. They live in this file instead, and both the daemon and
 * the CLI have to read it the same way — a CLI that cannot see the same client
 * id as the daemon produces contradictory errors about the same configuration.
 *
 * Existing variables always win: an explicit `FOO=bar aibroker ...` is the
 * caller overriding the file, not a conflict to resolve.
 */
/** Returns how many variables were newly set, so callers can report it. */
export declare function loadEnvFile(appDir?: string): number;
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