/**
 * time/readers/english — the library's careful English reader (time
 * design § 5.3): a tokenizer over a small, closed set of phrases, and
 * "unreadable" for every other time phrase it recognises.
 *
 * Pattern: Strategy behind the `TimeReader` port (`../reader.ts`). It
 *          TOKENIZES only: it returns the parts it sees and the verbatim
 *          quote. It never resolves an instant, never applies a date order,
 *          never maps a zone token (an abbreviation, a place) to a zone and
 *          never refuses a future date —
 *          all of that is `resolve.ts`'s, the policy's or the ask's.
 * Role:    L0 leaf (the time layer). Imports only the port's types. Armed
 *          by the app: `.time({ reader: englishTimeReader() })` — there is no
 *          default reader.
 * Emits:   N/A.
 *
 * ## What it reads (the v1 rows of § 5.3)
 *
 * | Phrase | Example | Parts |
 * |--------|---------|-------|
 * | an ISO date or instant | `2026-10-09`, `2026-10-09T08:00-07:00` | `date: fixed`, `wall` (marked `clock: '24h'` — never also pm), `zoneToken` |
 * | a numeric date | `10/09/26`, `10/9` | `date: numeric` — the ORDER is not decided here |
 * | a clock time | `8 AM`, `8:40`, `20:40`, `8:40 p.m.` | `wall` (a bare `8` is a time only as a range's first side: `8 to 9 AM`) |
 * | a range between two of the above | `8 AM to 8:40 AM`, `08:00–08:40`, `between 8 and 9 AM`, `today between 1 pm and 2 pm` | `rangeOf` (a day or zone said once for both sides is the whole mention's) |
 * | a zone after a time, a date or a day word | `America/Los_Angeles`, `UTC-07:00`, `London time`, `PST` | `zoneToken`, as written — `resolve.ts` maps it (a place the tz database names once; an abbreviation only through the app's map; else ASKED) |
 * | a named-month date | `11 September`, `Sept 29`, `September 29, 2026`, `the 29th of Sep` | `date: fixed` — no `year` unless written (the policy's or the person's, as for `10/9`) |
 * | a day word | today, yesterday, tomorrow | `relative: { unit: 'day', offset }` |
 * | a relative span from now | last 40 minutes, past 2 hours, last 24h, past 6h, the last hour, the past week | `relative: { unit, count }` — a look-back in minutes, hours, days or weeks, spelled out or compact (`m`, `h`, `d`, `w`) |
 *
 * ## What it says "unreadable" for — never a partial reading
 *
 * Parts of the day (`yesterday morning`, `tonight`, `noon` — a greeting, `Good morning`, is
 * no time and reads no mention), calendar spans
 * (`last week`, `this month`), week days and a month named alone (`Friday`,
 * `in September`), `N hours ago`, spans in words (`last two hours`), in a unit it
 * does not read (`last 30 seconds`, `last 30s`, `last 3 months`) or said with `previous`
 * (`previous 7 days` — often relative to another window), a look-ahead (`next 2 hours`), an
 * ordinal day (`the 9th`), `8 o'clock`, and any v1 phrase a modifier changes
 * (`since 8 AM`, `before yesterday`, `around 8:40`, `earlier today`,
 * `8 AM to now`, `past 8 PM`, `8 AM-ish`, `from 3 PM yesterday` with no `to`), a
 * bare first side whose far side says no meridiem (`8 to 9:30` — `9:30` alone
 * would drop the start) and a meridiem the number contradicts (`13:00 PM`). Such a phrase is ONE mention
 * with `problem: 'unreadable'`, quoting the whole phrase: reading `yesterday`
 * out of `yesterday morning` would silently widen what the person said.
 *
 * ## It only PROPOSES — the person confirms (the owner's decision "Always confirm")
 *
 * Nothing this reader reads is ever filed as the person's words. Seven review
 * rounds each found the next English spelling a word list, an allow-list or a
 * position rule missed (a zone named in words, a look-back tied to an event,
 * an open end, a half-read range), so the owner decided (2026-09-30, time
 * design TQ29): every reading of a chat message is a PROPOSAL, offered
 * through the time ask pre-filled and editable, with its window AND its zone
 * ("I read “last 2 hours” as … in America/Los_Angeles — is that right?").
 * Only what the person picks or types in that form is theirs. The library
 * owns the law (`../rowsBuild.ts` · `timeReadingRows`), so this reader returns
 * parts and quotes only — no confirm flag, no leftover list, no allow-list.
 * A form may later skip the click only when a registered benchmark shows it
 * is always read right (TQ29's growth rule).
 *
 * A numeric date the tokens could split two ways stays ONE parse — `10/09/26`
 * is three numbers; which is the month is the policy's or the person's.
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
 * const reader = englishTimeReader();
 * reader.read('errors on 10/09/26 8 AM to 8:40 AM PST', { locale: 'en-US' });
 * // { mentions: [{ quote: '10/09/26 8 AM to 8:40 AM PST', parses: [{
 * //   date: { kind: 'numeric', fields: [10, 9, 26], yearDigits: 2 }, zoneToken: 'PST',
 * //   rangeOf: [{ wall: { h: 8, meridiem: 'am' } }, { wall: { h: 8, m: 40, meridiem: 'am' } }] }] }] }
 * reader.read('errors in the last 2 hours', { locale: 'en-US' });
 * // { mentions: [{ quote: 'last 2 hours', parses: [{ relative: { unit: 'hour', count: 2 } }] }] }
 * reader.read('what failed yesterday morning?', { locale: 'en-US' });
 * // { mentions: [{ quote: 'yesterday morning', parses: [], problem: 'unreadable' }] }
 * ```
 */
import { type TimeReader } from '../reader.js';
/** The reader's recorded identity — on every `time-reading` row with its version. */
export declare const ENGLISH_TIME_READER_ID = "agentfootprint/english";
/** Raised whenever what the reader returns for some text changes. */
export declare const ENGLISH_TIME_READER_VERSION = "1.2.0";
/** A word right before a phrase that changes what it means: the phrase is not read. */
export declare const MODIFIER_BEFORE: RegExp;
/** `from` with no `to`: a time after it is where a window STARTS (`from 3 PM yesterday`), not an hour. */
export declare const FROM_BEFORE: RegExp;
/**
 * A bare number joined to a clock time as a range's first side the grammar
 * does not read (`8 to 9:30`, `from 8 to 9:30`, `between 8 and 9:30` — the
 * far side says no meridiem, so `8` is no time): the whole phrase is not
 * read. Reading `9:30` alone would drop the start the person said.
 */
export declare const BARE_SIDE_BEFORE: RegExp;
/**
 * Whether some span of `covering` holds `span` whole — `covering.some((a) =>
 * a.start <= span.start && span.end <= a.end)` — answered by binary search:
 * among the spans starting at or before `span.start`, the farthest end. Asking
 * `some` once per match cost matches × phrases, and a long message has many of
 * both.
 */
export declare function coverage(covering: readonly {
    readonly start: number;
    readonly end: number;
}[]): (span: {
    readonly start: number;
    readonly end: number;
}) => boolean;
/**
 * `/\bbetween\s+$/i.test(text.slice(0, end))` — `between`, then blanks right
 * up to `end` — walked back from `end`. The regex read the whole text before
 * each phrase it was asked about, so a message of many short phrases cost its
 * length times their number.
 */
export declare function saysBetweenBefore(text: string, end: number): boolean;
/**
 * Where the text before `end` that those three patterns can reach starts: back
 * over the blanks before `end`, then over `WORDS_BEFORE` words and the blanks
 * before each. Each pattern ends at `end` (`\s*$`), spans fewer words, and
 * takes its leading boundary from the character just before its first word —
 * all inside this window, which starts at a blank or at 0, so the window's
 * `^` adds no match. The leftmost match in the window is therefore the leftmost
 * match in all the text before `end`; matching that text instead re-read the
 * whole message once per group.
 */
export declare function windowBefore(text: string, end: number): number;
/** Options for {@link englishTimeReader}. */
export interface EnglishTimeReaderOptions {
    /**
     * The language tag the time ask's labels are rendered in (`present.ts`),
     * e.g. `'en-GB'`. Default `'en-US'`. It never decides a date order — that is
     * the policy's (`dateOrder`) or the person's.
     */
    readonly locale?: string;
}
/**
 * The library's careful English reader: a `kind: 'rule'` tokenizer over the
 * v1 phrases of the time design's § 5.3, "unreadable" for every other time
 * phrase it recognises. No dependency; deterministic over the text.
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
 * Agent.create({ provider, model })
 *   .time({ zone: 'America/Los_Angeles', reader: englishTimeReader() })
 *   .build();
 * ```
 */
export declare function englishTimeReader(options?: EnglishTimeReaderOptions): TimeReader;