import type { WriteOrigin } from './origin.js';
import { type WorkItem } from './store.js';
/** Assign a Todo to an employee. Sole owner of assignment: the assign route and delegation are
 * its only callers and carry the roster check, so backlog→assigned emits the same committed status
 * event and live todo-status listener notification as any lifecycle move. The operator pen instead
 * restores or clears the ownership fields, version-fenced, with no status move and no notification. */
export declare function assignWorkItem(id: string, assignee: string, department: string | null, actor?: string | null, origin?: WriteOrigin): WorkItem | undefined;
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