fix: verify the selected package manager before scaffolding

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Only npm was checked before writing project files. For every other manager:

• a missing manager surfaced when <pm> install failed inside an already scaffolded project, as dependency_install_failed. On Windows it was not even recognisable as missing: execa runs non-.exe commands through cmd.exe, so there is no ENOENT.
• generated projects pin packageManager: yarn@4.13.0; a global Yarn 1.22 without Corepack reports version 1, which the preflight rejects before install.

Changes:

• verifyPackageManagerEffect probes every manager with one shared version parser, in a scoped temp directory carrying the generated project's packageManager value (Corepack's yarn reports 1.22 outside a project and 4.13 inside one; pnpm refuses to run where another tool is pinned).
• Missing → new expected rejection package_manager_not_found. Yarn 1 → unsupported_package_manager_version. Other probe failures → package_manager_check_failed. All at validate_input; nothing is scaffolded. No minimum for pnpm, Bun or Deno: no evidence an older release breaks.
• Windows: CommandRunner classifies a failed command that cannot be resolved on PATH/PATHEXT as command_not_found. No cmd.exe text parsing, no new dependency.

Checked with the real CLI: missing Yarn and Yarn 1.22.22 rejected with no project directory; Corepack yarn and pnpm-from-a-yarn-pinned-directory succeed. check, typecheck, unit, e2e, check:pins and build pass. Not run on Windows (classification is unit-tested with an injected platform). Limitation: the probe runs outside the working directory, so asdf, mise shims and Volta are probed at their global version.

Follow-up telemetry PR #109 is based on this branch; its overlapping tests have been reconciled.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added package-manager verification for npm, pnpm, Yarn, Bun, and Deno.
  • Added minimum version checks for npm and Yarn.
• Bug Fixes
  • Package-manager issues are now reported during input validation with clearer failure reasons.
  • Improved detection of missing commands on Windows while preserving genuine command failures.
  • Unavailable package managers no longer create the target directory.
• Documentation
  • Updated prerequisite guidance to reference the selected package manager.

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Package-manager verification now supports npm, pnpm, Yarn, Bun, and Deno. It checks versions in a temporary directory containing the generated manifest and reports missing, failed, invalid, or unsupported managers. Windows command failures distinguish missing commands from other non-zero exits. Create failures and telemetry use the updated reasons and stages. Tests cover probing, failure classification, project creation behavior, telemetry, and documentation.

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Yarn 1 remains blocked with a generic failure instead of the documented unsupported-version result, so this should be corrected before merge.

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• Version: 0.13.1-pr.110.371.1
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• Run with Bun: bunx create-prisma@pr110
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