export interface DotEnvResult {
    /** Path consulted, whether or not it existed. */
    path: string;
    loaded: string[];
    /** Present in the file but already set in the environment — the environment won. */
    skipped: string[];
}
/** Parse `KEY=value` lines. Ignores blanks and `#` comments; strips one layer of quotes. */
export declare function parseDotEnv(text: string): Record<string, string>;
export declare function defaultEnvPath(): string;
/** Display-only provenance for credential resolution; never a precedence input. */
export declare function wasEnvNameLoadedFromFile(name: string): boolean;
/** Merge the env file into `env`, never overwriting a variable that is already set. */
export declare function loadEnvFile(path?: string, env?: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): DotEnvResult;