/**
 * instruction-sources.ts — the pure policy for WHICH instruction files the audit
 * rule-routing preview reads.
 *
 * A repo's real subdirectory memory (`src/CLAUDE.md`, `research/CLAUDE.md`, a
 * nested `AGENTS.md`) IS worth routing; a fixture/demo/build/test CLAUDE.md is
 * NOISE that would flood the preview. `isFixturePath` is the precision-first
 * discriminator (over-skip a legit `sample-service` before flooding with fixture
 * rules). Pure + unit-tested; the fs discovery/glue lives in cli.ts
 * (`gatherInstructionFiles`). See research/rule-enforcer-multilang-design.md §0.
 */
/** One instruction file gathered from disk, with its canonical (symlink-resolved)
 * path so a mirror can be detected. */
export interface RawInstructionFile {
    /** The repo-relative path (kept for provenance). */
    readonly path: string;
    /** The realpath (symlink-resolved) — a symlinked mirror shares this. */
    readonly canonical: string;
    readonly text: string;
}
/**
 * Dedup instruction files so a `CLAUDE.md`⇄`AGENTS.md` MIRROR is routed ONCE, not
 * double-counted (compose-with-sync-tools: a symlinked or byte-identical synced
 * mirror is ONE logical artifact). Dedups by BOTH the canonical path (a symlink)
 * AND the content hash (a byte-identical sync) — relative-path dedup alone caught
 * neither. First occurrence wins (callers pass root files first). Pure.
 */
export declare function dedupeInstructionFiles(files: readonly RawInstructionFile[]): {
    path: string;
    text: string;
}[];
/**
 * Is this (repo-relative) instruction-file path fixture/demo/build/test noise?
 * True when any DIRECTORY segment (never the filename) is a build/deps/test dir
 * OR starts with a demo/example/sample/fixture/bench/mock/scratch/tmp prefix.
 * Conventional + general (not vigiles-specific), precision over recall.
 */
export declare function isFixturePath(relPath: string): boolean;
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