/** The contract for reading ONE instance file: how much comes back per call and
 *  what the result says about it. Shared because three layers depend on it — the
 *  store produces it, the read route serializes it, and the MCP tool names the cap
 *  in its own description rather than reaching across to the store it calls over HTTP. */
/** Chars returned per read. Anything beyond is reached with `offset`, never dropped silently. */
export declare const KNOWLEDGE_FILE_CHAR_CAP = 20000;
export type KnowledgeReadResult = 
/** `content` is the slice `[offset, offset + KNOWLEDGE_FILE_CHAR_CAP)` verbatim; `truncated`
 *  says the file continues past it, and `offset + returnedChars` is where the next slice starts. */
{
    ok: true;
    path: string;
    title: string;
    content: string;
    truncated: boolean;
    totalChars: number;
    returnedChars: number;
    offset: number;
} | {
    ok: false;
    reason: "invalid-path" | "invalid-offset" | "forbidden" | "not-found";
    detail: string;
};
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