/**
 * Instances: one Proxmox connection per MCP server process.
 *
 * An admin usually has more than one Proxmox to talk to -- a production
 * cluster and a lab box, say. Each gets its own instance, which means its own
 * credentials file and its own entry in the client config, so the two never
 * share a process. That process boundary is the isolation: the lab server
 * simply has no way to reach the production cluster's token.
 *
 * The alternative -- one server with a `target` argument on every tool -- would
 * put both sets of credentials in one process and make "which cluster did that
 * delete run against?" a question the model answers, not the operating system.
 */
export declare const DEFAULT_INSTANCE_NAME = "proxmox";
/** Legacy single-instance layout, still read so existing installs keep working. */
export declare const LEGACY_CONFIG_FILENAME = "config.json";
export type InstanceScope = "project" | "user";
export type InstanceRef = {
    name: string;
    scope: InstanceScope;
    configPath: string;
    /** Key used for this instance in the client config, and the tool prefix. */
    serverKey: string;
};
/**
 * Turns anything an admin might type -- or a cluster name discovered from the
 * API -- into a usable instance name, so nobody has to know the rules.
 */
export declare const sanitizeInstanceName: (raw: string) => string;
export declare const assertValidInstanceName: (name: string) => void;
export declare const configDirFor: (scope: InstanceScope, cwd: string) => string;
export declare const instanceRef: (name: string, scope: InstanceScope, cwd: string) => InstanceRef;
/**
 * Lists configured instances, project scope first. Used by `list` and to give
 * a useful error when `--name` does not match anything.
 */
export declare const findInstances: (cwd: string) => Promise<InstanceRef[]>;
/** Resolves a named instance, preferring project scope over user scope. */
export declare const resolveInstanceByName: (name: string, cwd: string) => Promise<InstanceRef>;
/** The pre-instances layout: `.nandi-proxmox-mcp/config.json` keyed as the package name. */
export declare const legacyInstanceRef: (cwd: string) => InstanceRef;
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