import type { EnvScope } from '../config/types.js';
/**
 * Options for discovering example scopes.
 */
interface DiscoverExampleScopesOptions {
    /** Extra exclude patterns (added to the default scan excludes). */
    exclude?: string[];
    /** Keys to ignore when building each scope's key set. */
    ignore?: string[];
    /** Regex patterns of keys to ignore when building each scope's key set. */
    ignoreRegex?: RegExp[];
}
/**
 * Discovers `.env.example`-style files in subdirectories of `cwd` and returns the
 * documented keys for each, scoped to the directory the file lives in.
 *
 * Files at the root of `cwd` are intentionally skipped: the root is already covered
 * by the primary comparison file, so only nested scopes are returned here. Excluded
 * directories (e.g. `node_modules`) are skipped using the same rules as the code scan.
 *
 * @param cwd - The directory to search from.
 * @param opts - Exclude and ignore configuration.
 * @returns One scope per discovered nested example file, sorted by directory depth (deepest first).
 */
export declare function discoverExampleScopes(cwd: string, opts?: DiscoverExampleScopesOptions): EnvScope[];
export {};
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