import type { SearchDoc } from '../core/content.js';
/** One result row: enough to render a link and a preview. */
export type SearchResult = {
    path: string;
    title: string;
    section?: string;
    snippet: string;
    /** The page's version id, so a versioned site can scope results. */
    version?: string;
};
export type SearchEngine = {
    /**
     * Ranked results for `query`, at most `limit` (default 8). Pass `version` to
     * return only that version's pages (over-fetches internally so the limit is
     * still met after filtering).
     */
    search(query: string, limit?: number, version?: string): SearchResult[];
};
/** Build a search engine over `docs`. Indexing is synchronous and one-time. */
export declare function createSearchEngine(docs: SearchDoc[]): SearchEngine;