export declare function looksLikeConversationId(value: string | undefined): boolean;
/** Whether `args` already asks for some existing conversation. */
export declare function wantsExistingConversation(args: string[]): boolean;
/**
 * The conversation id `args` names, if it names one.
 *
 * `--resume` with nothing after it opens a picker, so there is no id to find;
 * that reads as null rather than as the next argument, which would otherwise
 * swallow an unrelated flag and hand Claude a nonsense id.
 */
export declare function conversationIdIn(args: string[]): string | null;
/** Strip every conversation flag, including whatever value it carries. */
export declare function withoutConversationFlags(args: string[]): string[];
export interface ConversationPlan {
    /** The command line for this run's FIRST launch. */
    args: string[];
    /**
     * The conversation this run owns, when it can be known before starting.
     *
     * Null when the operator asked for a conversation only Claude can identify
     * (`--continue`, or `--resume` with the picker). The id is learned from the
     * running session in that case; see `readKnownConversation`.
     */
    id: string | null;
}
/**
 * Decide which conversation this run is in, before anything starts.
 *
 * A fresh start is given an id of our own so later swaps have something exact
 * to resume. Anything the operator asked for is left exactly as typed: they may
 * be resuming a specific conversation, and rewriting that would be ccx deciding
 * which thread they are in.
 */
export declare function planConversation(args: string[], newId?: () => string): ConversationPlan;
/**
 * The command line for picking the conversation back up after a swap.
 *
 * With an id, this run resumes exactly its own thread. Without one, it falls
 * back to "the most recent in this directory", which is the best available
 * answer when nothing has told us which conversation this is.
 */
export declare function relaunchArgs(args: string[], id: string | null): string[];
/**
 * Start a genuinely NEW conversation, and name it.
 *
 * Used when a resume finds nothing to resume. Naming the new one matters as
 * much as starting it: the id the run was carrying is now known to lead
 * nowhere, so without a replacement every later swap would try that same dead
 * id, fail, and start fresh again, losing the conversation each time.
 */
export declare function freshStartArgs(args: string[], newId?: () => string): {
    args: string[];
    id: string;
};