/**
 * Prefix used to mark errors that originate from a failed dynamic `import()` of
 * an existing config file (i.e. a syntactically broken config). Callers can test
 * for this prefix to distinguish a parse failure from any other error and turn it
 * into an actionable, user-facing hard failure.
 */
export declare const CONFIG_PARSE_FAILED_PREFIX = "CONFIG_PARSE_FAILED: ";
/**
 * Parse an existing config file by loading it via native dynamic `import()`.
 * Handles both `.js` and `.ts` config files (the latter through the `tsx`
 * loader already registered for the process).
 *
 * Returns the full config object — including any arbitrary/custom keys — so the
 * caller can preserve every value across regeneration. Returns `null` only when
 * the file does not exist.
 *
 * On a syntactically broken config the dynamic import throws; this function
 * re-throws a wrapped error prefixed with {@link CONFIG_PARSE_FAILED_PREFIX} so
 * the caller can hard-fail with guidance instead of silently preserving only a
 * subset of keys. It never falls back to lossy regex extraction.
 *
 * @throws Error prefixed with {@link CONFIG_PARSE_FAILED_PREFIX} when the config
 *   cannot be imported, or the `hulaRepository` remediation error when the
 *   legacy key is present.
 */
export declare function parseExistingConfig(configPath: string): Promise<Partial<Record<string, any>> | null>;
/**
 * Merge existing config values with new config values
 * Priority: existing > new (preserve user customizations)
 */
export declare function mergeConfigs(existing: Partial<Record<string, any>> | null, newConfig: Record<string, any>): Record<string, any>;
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