/** An executable and the arguments configured alongside it. */
export interface RerankCommand {
    /** Program to spawn. Must name a directly executable file, not a shim. */
    executable: string;
    /** Argument templates configured by the operator. */
    args: string[];
}
/**
 * Tokenizes the command with a small, platform-independent quoting grammar.
 * Whitespace separates tokens outside matching single or double quotes; quote
 * characters group text and are removed. Everything else, including
 * backslashes and shell metacharacters, stays literal.
 *
 * Returns undefined when the string carries no executable or has an unmatched
 * quote.
 */
export declare function parseRerankCommand(command: string): RerankCommand | undefined;
/**
 * Replaces runtime placeholders independently in each configured argument.
 * `replace` scans only the original template, so placeholder-shaped query text
 * is not interpreted recursively.
 */
export declare function buildRerankArgv(command: RerankCommand, query: string, top: number): string[];
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