/**
 * Encode walker — interprets the shared descriptor tables (`descriptors.ts`) to WRITE a capture's
 * structs, plus the handful of special handlers a flat table can't express (recursive
 * notRestoredReasons, keyed config/overhead maps, columnar profile slices). The decode mirror is
 * `decode-walker.ts`; both read the SAME descriptors, so they cannot drift.
 */
import { FieldEncoder } from './field-encoder.js';
import { type StreamId } from '../registry.js';
import type { Manifest } from '../manifest.js';
import type { OverheadReport } from '../capture.js';
/**
 * Manifest: clock + the TOTAL per-stream record list + config. Each stream record is a self-describing
 * frame — `[streamIndex: u8][status: str][schemaVersion: varuint][byteLen: varuint][tail bytes]` behind
 * a leading count — so ANY reader (older or newer) can always recover which streams a writer knew,
 * their status, and their schema version, and skip record tails or whole unknown-stream records by
 * length. This is what makes "read newer files, pull what you know" sound; see FileFormat.md.
 */
export declare function encodeManifest(e: FieldEncoder, m: Manifest): void;
export declare function encodeOverhead(e: FieldEncoder, o: OverheadReport): void;
/** Encode one stream's payload, fully descriptor-driven (STREAM_T is total, incl. navigation's NAV tag). */
export declare function encodeStream(e: FieldEncoder, id: StreamId, data: unknown): void;
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