/**
 * Parsing model sessions' final messages into structured data — the
 * generalization of the bootstrap sweep's parseLeftovers, and the ONLY
 * sanctioned way a role turns text into a typed value.
 *
 * The contract with every data-returning prompt: "your final message must
 * be nothing but JSON" — and the parse tolerates surrounding chatter or a
 * code fence by cutting to the outermost brackets. Anything less shaped
 * than that is a step defect worth throwing about, not guessing around:
 * a malformed report means the SESSION failed its instructions, and the
 * budgets/escalation machinery upstream is the place that handles it.
 */
/**
 * Parse a JSON array of validated entries. `entryShape` names the
 * expected entry form in the error message (e.g. "{file, description}").
 */
export declare function parseArrayOf<T>(report: string, what: string, entryShape: string, isEntry: (entry: unknown) => entry is T): T[];
/** Parse a single JSON object matching the given validator. */
export declare function parseObjectOf<T>(report: string, what: string, shape: string, isShape: (value: unknown) => value is T): T;
/** Field guards for validators — small on purpose, composed per role. */
export declare const isRecord: (value: unknown) => value is Record<string, unknown>;
export declare const isString: (value: unknown) => value is string;
export declare const isBoolean: (value: unknown) => value is boolean;
export declare const isStringArray: (value: unknown) => value is string[];