export declare const ACCEPTANCE_CONTINUITY_EXTENSION: "sortie-dogs/acceptance-continuity";
export declare const ACCEPTANCE_CONTINUITY_SCHEMA_VERSION: "0.1";
export declare const ACCEPTANCE_CONTINUITY_AUTHORITY: "dispatch";
export declare const MAX_ACCEPTANCE_CONTINUITY_BYTES: number;
/**
 * One shared criterion bound for frozen intent requirements, parsed operator plans, and this
 * ledger. A lower ledger bound silently rejects an otherwise valid accepted scope at worker
 * inspection, so the count stays aligned here and the byte cap above remains the real payload limit.
 */
export declare const MAX_ACCEPTANCE_CRITERIA = 64;
export interface AcceptanceContinuityLedger {
    readonly schema_version: "0.1";
    readonly authority: "dispatch";
    readonly task_id: string;
    readonly criteria: readonly string[];
    readonly fingerprint: string;
    readonly parent_fingerprint: "none" | string;
}
export interface AcceptanceContinuityInspection {
    readonly ledger: AcceptanceContinuityLedger | undefined;
    readonly error: "absent" | "malformed" | "oversize" | undefined;
}
export declare function normalizeAcceptanceCriteria(criteria: readonly string[]): string[];
export declare function acceptanceContinuityFingerprint(criteria: readonly string[]): string;
export declare function inspectAcceptanceContinuity(handoff: unknown): AcceptanceContinuityInspection;