import { type PwBrowser } from './playwright-loader.js';
export interface AcquiredChromium {
    readonly browser: PwBrowser;
    readonly version: string;
}
/**
 * The ordered gate: disable → resolve → cache probe → launch-or-refuse.
 *
 * Every exit here is off the download path, by design — see the module
 * docstring. The `CODE: detail` shape is `web-daemon-service`'s
 * `failureResponse` convention, so the caller gets `WEB_INSTALL_REQUIRED` and
 * not a collapsed `WEB_OP_FAILED`.
 */
export declare function acquireChromium(): Promise<AcquiredChromium>;