import { ConfigService, PartialProfileGroup, ProfileGroup, ProfilesService } from 'tabby-core';
/**
 * The one call this plugin makes to `getProfileGroups()`, clone included.
 *
 * The clone is not a precaution one may skip. `buildGroupTree()` writes
 * `group.children = []` straight onto the objects it is handed; if those are
 * live references into `config.store.groups`, that computed array is serialized
 * into `config.yaml` at the next `config.save()` — any save, a favourite is
 * enough — and the file comes back with duplicated and orphaned groups. That is
 * piège #12, and it corrupted the user's real configuration once.
 *
 * Two callers used to spell the same three lines, the second one right after
 * the `await`, with a comment each explaining the danger. Nothing enforced it:
 * a third caller written next year would compile, run, and quietly poison the
 * config. Spelling it once removes the discipline instead of documenting it —
 * the same move `isSSHTab()` made for `instanceof SSHTabComponent`.
 *
 * **Do not call `profilesService.getProfileGroups()` anywhere else.**
 */
export declare function readProfileGroups(profiles: ProfilesService, config: ConfigService): Promise<PartialProfileGroup<ProfileGroup>[]>;