/**
 * Subcommands the ttsc CLI dispatches to. The bare `"ttsc"` entry covers the
 * default lane (no explicit subcommand, e.g. `ttsc -p tsconfig.json`).
 */
export type TtscSubcommand = "ttsc" | "build" | "cache" | "check" | "fix" | "format" | "prepare" | "clean";
/**
 * Subcommands the ttsx CLI dispatches to. ttsx exposes a single lane today but
 * the schema mirrors ttsc's shape so future subcommands plug in without a
 * second engine.
 */
export type TtsxSubcommand = "ttsx";
export type AnySubcommand = TtscSubcommand | TtsxSubcommand;
/**
 * Layers a flag can be consumed by. The order reflects the runtime pipeline:
 *
 * Launcher → runBuild → tsgo / native sidecars (host, lint).
 *
 * A flag must declare at least one consumer. `forwardTo` declares where the
 * flag travels when the consuming layer does not absorb it (e.g. ttsc-owned
 * flags that the JS launcher consumes and re-emits as different tsgo flags).
 */
export type FlagLayer = "launcher" | "runBuild" | "tsgo" | "host" | "lint";
/**
 * Argument shape of a flag.
 *
 * - `boolean` — `--flag` with an optional spaced `true` / `false`. Launcher flags
 *   also accept `--flag=true` / `--flag=false`; tsgo-forwarded flags stay
 *   verbatim because pinned tsgo does not split `=`.
 * - `value` — `--flag value`. Launcher flags also accept `--flag=value`.
 * - `valueOptional` — `--flag` standalone is allowed; if followed by a non-flag
 *   token that token is consumed as the value. (Currently unused — declared for
 *   future flags like `--watch [path]`.)
 */
export type FlagKind = "boolean" | "value" | "valueOptional";
/**
 * Validation predicate for `value`-kind flags. `none` is the default (accept
 * any string).
 */
export type ValueValidator = "none" | "positiveInt";
/**
 * One CLI flag's complete contract. Every layer's behaviour is structural —
 * which subcommands accept the flag, where it is consumed, where it is
 * forwarded, whether it is terminal (prints and exits) — so the next layer
 * never silently drops the flag.
 */
export interface FlagSpec {
    /**
     * Canonical flag name including leading dashes (`"--singleThreaded"`). The
     * generator uses this as the map key in the Go allow-list and as the first
     * column of the docs table.
     */
    readonly name: string;
    /**
     * Alternative spellings (`"-p"`, `"--project"` for `--tsconfig`). The parsing
     * engine treats every alias as an equivalent of `name`.
     */
    readonly aliases?: readonly string[];
    /** Argument shape: boolean / required value / optional value. */
    readonly kind: FlagKind;
    /**
     * For `value` flags: optional validator. `positiveInt` mirrors the
     * `--checkers minValue:1` constraint tsgo enforces.
     */
    readonly validator?: ValueValidator;
    /** Subcommands that accept this flag. */
    readonly subcommands: readonly AnySubcommand[];
    /**
     * Layers that read the flag into a typed option. Order matters only for
     * documentation; the parsing engine merges across layers.
     */
    readonly consumedBy: readonly FlagLayer[];
    /**
     * Where the flag travels when the consuming layer does not absorb it. Default
     * for any flag a layer does not consume is `"tsgo"` — i.e. the launcher
     * forwards an unknown flag to tsgo via passthrough. Setting this to
     * `undefined` while `consumedBy: ["launcher"]` is set means the flag is
     * intentionally consumed-not-forwarded (e.g. ttsc-internal `--binary`).
     */
    readonly forwardTo?: FlagLayer;
    /**
     * Terminal flags ask the underlying tool to print something and exit
     * (`--help`, `--version`, `--showConfig`, `--listFilesOnly`, `--all`,
     * `--init`). ttsc must not wrap them in a pre-emit pass — that is how the
     * `--showConfig prints twice` bug appeared (RC-2).
     */
    readonly terminal?: boolean;
    /**
     * `true` when a `terminal` flag's meaning does not presuppose a resolved
     * project, so ttsc must answer it before project resolution runs (`--init`
     * writes the starter tsconfig, `--all` and `-?` print tsgo's help). Without
     * this split `ttsc --init` failed with "could not find tsconfig.json …" in
     * the only directory where it is useful.
     *
     * `--showConfig` and `--listFilesOnly` are terminal but deliberately NOT
     * project-free: both describe a project, so failing without one is correct.
     */
    readonly projectFree?: boolean;
    /**
     * `true` when every occurrence of a repeated `value` flag counts rather than
     * the last one winning (`ttsx -r a -r b` preloads both). The engine keeps the
     * last value in `ParseResult.values` for callers that want a single answer
     * and records the complete ordered list in `ParseResult.repeated`.
     */
    readonly repeatable?: boolean;
    /**
     * `true` when ttsc may add this flag to tsgo internally and post-process the
     * output. If the user also forwards the same flag, ttsc keeps the
     * user-visible behaviour (no double-print, no swallowed output). The shadow
     * check is structural rather than `passthrough.includes("…")`.
     *
     * Currently true for `--listEmittedFiles`, `--noEmit`, `--pretty`.
     */
    readonly internalShadow?: boolean;
    /**
     * `true` when pinned tsgo only permits the option in tsconfig, except for
     * command-line `false` or `null`. The launcher forwards the original argv so
     * tsgo remains the diagnostic authority.
     */
    readonly tsconfigOnly?: boolean;
    /**
     * Native sidecar capability that must be declared before ttsc sends this flag
     * as a bare CLI argument. Everything else routes through `--tsgo-args` or
     * stays in the JS launcher.
     */
    readonly nativeCapability?: "diagnosticsTiming" | "threadingArgs";
    /** Human description for `--help` and the docs table. */
    readonly description: string;
}
/**
 * Single source of truth for every flag the ttsc / ttsx CLI accepts. New flags
 * are added here and only here; the generator rebuilds the parsers and the Go
 * allow-lists from this table.
 *
 * Constraints enforced by the parser and the generator:
 *
 * 1. Every flag is uniquely identified by `name`; aliases must not collide with
 *    other flags' `name` or `aliases`.
 * 2. A flag listed in `consumedBy: ["launcher"]` without a `forwardTo`
 *    consumes-not-forwards. The generator flags this in the docs and the Go
 *    allow-list so the boundary is explicit.
 * 3. A flag with `subcommands` covering `clean` or `prepare` is parsed by the
 *    project-args lane; the parsing engine accepts the same flag in build /
 *    check / fix / format without a separate parser.
 */
export declare const FLAG_SCHEMA: readonly FlagSpec[];
/**
 * Normalize a CLI token to the identity the compiler ttsc wraps resolves it by:
 * one or two leading dashes removed, the remainder lower-cased.
 *
 * TypeScript's option parser — legacy `tsc` and native tsgo alike — strips a
 * `--` or `-` prefix and matches the rest case-insensitively, so `--noEmit`,
 * `--noemit`, `--NOEMIT`, and `-noEmit` all name the same option to the tool
 * ttsc forwards to. The launcher used to key its index on the exact spelling,
 * so a case variant of a ttsc-owned flag fell through the unknown-flag escape
 * hatch: tsgo honoured it and every ttsc-side consumer of the same flag never
 * fired, with no diagnostic.
 *
 * This is the single normalization. Everything that resolves a token against
 * `FLAG_SCHEMA` — the parsing engine, the terminal / shadow / project-free
 * classifications, and the generated Go allow-lists — keys off this function,
 * so no two layers can disagree about which flag a spelling names.
 */
export declare function normalizeFlagToken(token: string): string;
/**
 * Resolve a raw argv token to the flag it names, or `undefined` when the schema
 * claims no such flag.
 *
 * Accepts every spelling the compiler accepts — any casing, one or two leading
 * dashes — plus the inline `--flag=value` form, whose value is not part of the
 * identity. A token without a leading dash is never a flag: bare tokens are
 * input files and flag values, and resolving them here would let a value like
 * the `all` of `--target all` masquerade as `--all`.
 */
export declare function resolveFlagSpec(token: string): FlagSpec | undefined;
/**
 * Lookup of every declared spelling → its canonical FlagSpec, keyed by
 * {@link normalizeFlagToken}. Built once at module load so the parsing engine
 * has O(1) flag resolution. Prefer {@link resolveFlagSpec}, which applies the
 * normalization for the caller.
 */
export declare const FLAG_BY_TOKEN: ReadonlyMap<string, FlagSpec>;
/** Tokens (canonical name + aliases) accepted in `subcommand`. */
export declare function flagsForSubcommand(subcommand: AnySubcommand): FlagSpec[];
/**
 * Allow-list map for the Go layer named `layer` (`"host"` or `"lint"`):
 * flag-name (no leading dashes) → whether the flag takes a value token. The
 * generator emits a literal Go map with the same shape, but this function is
 * the runtime equivalent — used in tests to verify the generated Go matches the
 * schema.
 */
export declare function buildGoAllowList(layer: "host" | "lint"): Map<string, boolean>;