/**
 * Canonical Category Map — normalizes the fragmented claim categories
 * (37 variants) down to ~12 canonical categories.
 *
 * Used in two places:
 *   1. Rule creation (harvester + pattern extractor) — new rules get canonical categories
 *   2. Rule loading (catalog) — existing rules get mapped at load time
 */
/**
 * The canonical set of claim categories for all learned rules.
 */
export declare const CANONICAL_CATEGORIES: readonly ["security", "error-handling", "data-validation", "async", "resource-management", "api-contract", "state-management", "i18n", "performance", "type-safety", "ui-logic", "code-quality"];
export type CanonicalCategory = (typeof CANONICAL_CATEGORIES)[number];
/**
 * Maps every known raw category string to its canonical form.
 *
 * When adding new mappings, keep the keys lowercase and hyphenated.
 */
export declare const CATEGORY_MAP: Readonly<Record<string, CanonicalCategory>>;
/**
 * Normalize a raw category string to its canonical form.
 *
 * Lookup order:
 *   1. Exact match in CATEGORY_MAP
 *   2. Lowercase + trim exact match
 *   3. Fallback to 'code-quality' (the broadest bucket)
 */
export declare function normalizeCategory(raw: string): CanonicalCategory;