[Bug]: storybook doctor cannot determine the installed version in a nested pnpm catalog workspace

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Describe the bug

storybook doctor exits before running checks when it is invoked through pnpm dlx from a nested package whose Storybook dependencies use a pnpm catalog.

The tested project has Storybook 10.4.4 installed under ui/vue/node_modules, and its .storybook config is in that package. Doctor still reports:

Unable to determine Storybook version so the command will not proceed

Passing --config-dir .storybook does not help.

Reproduction link

https://github.com/inkline/inkline/tree/b5ce93e7

Reproduction steps

1. Clone the reproduction at commit b5ce93e7.

2. Run corepack enable && pnpm install.

3. Confirm that Storybook is available to the Vue workspace:

   cd ui/vue
   node -e "console.log(require('storybook/package.json').version)"

4. From ui/vue, run:

   pnpm dlx storybook@10.6.0-beta.0 doctor --config-dir .storybook

Actual: doctor exits because it cannot determine the installed Storybook version.

Expected: doctor finds the Vue workspace's installed Storybook version and runs its checks.

System

Installed Storybook: 10.4.4
Doctor CLI: 10.6.0-beta.0
Node.js 22.22.3
pnpm 11.6.0
Linux
Framework: @storybook/vue3-vite
Workspace dependencies use pnpm catalog:

Additional context

This was found before upgrading the project during Storybook 10.6 release QA.

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[bunnysayzz]

Happy to dig into this. Doctor bailing on version detection for nested pnpm-catalog workspaces means --config-dir never runs its checks there. I'll resolve the installed version from the invoking workspace instead, with a regression test for the nested-catalog layout. PR to follow.