/**
 * OpenKernel — Capability Normalization
 *
 * Harness-friendly capability passing. A phase (from a harness like InfiniBot,
 * or from the LLM planner) can name what it needs in natural terms — "backend",
 * "ui", "testing", "devops" — and this maps them onto the kernel's canonical
 * capability vocabulary so the router/worker-matcher understand them. Unknown
 * terms fall back to a fuzzy canonical match, then to `reasoning`.
 */
import type { Capability } from './types.js';
/** The kernel's canonical capability vocabulary (mirrors the Capability union). */
export declare const CANONICAL_CAPABILITIES: Capability[];
/**
 * Normalize natural capability names to canonical capabilities. Accepts canonical
 * names as-is, maps known synonyms, fuzzy-matches by substring, and guarantees a
 * non-empty result (falls back to `['reasoning']`).
 */
export declare function normalizeCapabilities(input?: string[]): Capability[];