import type { EffectiveRule, ProjectLintTool, RulePreReadDeps } from './rule-pre-read-types.js';
/**
 * The rules inside a printed configuration, one per line, sorted by rule id.
 *
 * `null` means "this is not a configuration I can read" — a different answer
 * from "the configuration enables no rules", which is an empty string.
 */
export declare function renderRuleMap(config: unknown): string | null;
/**
 * The project's own effective rules for a file set.
 *
 * Returns the rules AND the reasons the read could not produce them: a tool
 * that is declared but not installed, or a file the tool could not resolve, is
 * reported rather than dropped.
 */
export declare function readProjectLintRules(projectRoot: string, tools: readonly ProjectLintTool[], files: readonly string[], deps: RulePreReadDeps): {
    rules: readonly EffectiveRule[];
    reasons: readonly string[];
};