/**
 * Version helpers for the update check.
 *
 * The parsing/comparison half now lives in `@auden.to/protocol` — the server
 * needs the same ordering to enforce the sync version floor, and two
 * hand-rolled comparers that disagree about which release is older would be a
 * silent contract split. Re-exported here so this module stays the CLI's
 * single import site for version handling.
 */
export { compareVersions, parseVersion } from '@auden.to/protocol';
/**
 * The npm dist-tag a given version was published under.
 *
 * Mirrors the derivation in `.github/workflows/release-cli.yml` exactly,
 * including its `next` fallback for a prerelease identifier that isn't a
 * plain alphabetic channel — if the two ever disagree, alpha users get
 * compared against the wrong tag and are told to "update" to an older stable
 * release.
 */
export declare function channelOf(value: string): string;
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