import type { Smellage } from "../core/types.js";
import type { Versionage } from "../tables/table-types.js";
import { type Kind, type Protocol } from "../tables/versions.js";
/**
 * Build one CESR/KERI version string from its semantic parts.
 *
 * This is the serialize-side counterpart to `smell()`: callers that already
 * know protocol, version, kind, and measured size can construct the embedded
 * version token without reimplementing the encoding rules.
 */
export declare function versify(opts: {
    proto?: Protocol;
    pvrsn?: Versionage;
    gvrsn?: Versionage | null;
    kind?: Kind;
    size: number;
}): string;
/**
 * Locate and decode the first version string in the stream head window.
 *
 * For non-native bodies this is the canonical pre-hydration metadata probe used
 * by parser and serder layers before any protocol-specific decode occurs.
 */
export declare function smell(raw: Uint8Array): {
    smellage: Smellage;
    start: number;
    fullLength: number;
};
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