/**
 * Remove comments so documentation never produces tags. Handles JS/TS block
 * and line comments (URL-safe: `https://` survives) and full/inline `#`
 * comments for Python-family files (`#` preceded by start-of-line or
 * whitespace, so string contents like "#fff" or `this.#field` survive).
 */
export declare function stripCommentsForTags(content: string): string;
export declare function detectTags(content: string): string[];
/**
 * Per-route tag scoping for regex-based detectors: given the character offsets
 * where each route registration starts, tag each route from its own slice of
 * the file (registration start → next registration start) instead of the whole
 * file. Routes in one file with different policies stop inheriting each
 * other's tags.
 */
export declare function detectTagsScoped(content: string, starts: number[]): string[][];
/** Line-based variant for extractors that report line numbers (1-based). */
export declare function detectTagsForLineSpan(lines: string[], startLine: number, endLine: number): string[];