import type * as cxschema from '@aws-cdk/cloud-assembly-schema';
import type { CloudFormationStackArtifact } from '../artifacts/cloudformation-artifact';
interface AssemblyLike {
    readonly directory: string;
}
/**
 * Return a validation report that contains the validation report that the CDK app has written, as well as any Construct Metadata annotations in the manifest.
 *
 * This function takes into account the CDK app can already have written the
 * construct annotations into the validation report, or not, depending on the
 * setting of a deprecated feature flag. If the annotations are already in the report,
 * they are not copied.
 *
 * Afterwards, the list of violations is filtered to only include those that are relevant to the stacks selected for validation.
 *
 * Returns whether an explicit report file was found or not.
 */
export declare function loadUnifiedValidationReport(assembly: AssemblyLike, stacks: CloudFormationStackArtifact[]): Promise<cxschema.PluginReportJson[]>;
export {};